India’s First Openly Gay Prince Is Working to Make Conversion Therapy Illegal

When Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil came out in 2006, he became the first openly gay royal in Indian history. He was 41 at the time, and was publicly disowned by his parents, the Maharaja and Maharani of Rajpipla. When he told them he was gay in 2002, his parents soon subjected him to conversion therapy. “They thought it was impossible that I could be gay because my cultural upbringing had been so rich. They had no idea that there’s no connection between someone’s sexuality and their upbringing,” Gohil told Insider. “They approached doctors to operate on my brain to make… Read Full Article