Is prince a gay

Many in the LGBT community responded to Prince's ever-changing and amorphous image and channeled it into their own gender and sexual journeys. In a heartfelt obituary, musician Frank Ocean. Prince loved women and also embraced his femininity - femininity doesn’t make a person gay. I’m happy to be gay myself but I don’t need Prince to be gay just because he was a fem dude. Was Prince gay?

Explore the truth behind his sexuality, relationships, and androgynous style, and find out what really fuelled the long-standing rumours. Was Prince Gay? No, Prince wasn’t gay. The artist has never publicly confirmed his sexuality. However, it’s not surprising that many fans consider him a queer icon thanks to his brand and persona. It’s important to note though that Prince has only been linked to women throughout his life, so it’s safe to assume that he was straight.

"Raunchy Prince was actually a conservative Christian who opposed gay marriage," read one headline published Friday in the Washington Post. "Prince's alleged anti-gay stance is baffling. Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil said he felt humiliated when his mother and father sought medical assistance after he told them about his sexuality.

Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player. India's first openly gay prince has told Sky News his parents tried to make him have brain surgery to change his sexuality. Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil said he felt humiliated when his mother and father sought medical help to "convert" him after he told them he was gay.

It comes after a Sky News investigation revealed doctors in India are still offering gay conversion therapy , despite the widely discredited practice being seen as "medical misconduct" by the nation's regulators. Prince Gohil, the heir of the Maharaja of Rajpipla in Gujarat, has launched a legal battle at India's Supreme Court to try to get conversion therapy banned outright by law.

The court is also currently considering a bid to legalise gay marriage in the country.

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Describing his own parents' attempt to "convert" him, the royal told Sky News: "It was an absolute case of discrimination and violation of human rights. Whether I'm a prince or not a prince, parents have no right to put their children through [this] kind of torture. Prince Gohil said his parents visited doctors in the hope they could "perform a surgery on my brain, and even make me undergo electro shock therapy".

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Read more: Protests rock Indian parliament for third day following ethnic violence Global rice shortages feared after India bans exports Gang rape investigated as video shows abducted Indian women being paraded naked. He told Sky News: "When I came out I said 'I don't blame my parents, I don't blame the people that are against me, that hate me', I blame their ignorance on this subject. It's our duty to educate them and to make them aware about the facts.

The turnaround by his parents has gone so well that the prince's father has since gifted him 15 acres of land so that he can build an LGBT community building. India's first openly gay prince says parents wanted him to have 'conversion brain surgery' Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil said he felt humiliated when his mother and father sought medical assistance after he told them about his sexuality.

By Daniel Binns, news reporter. Friday 28 July , UK. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Why you can trust Sky News. More on India.