Religious leaders wanted to have sex with me: Gay prince Manvendra Singh Gohil

  • | Friday | 21st September, 2018

For the first time in the history of our country, religious leaders of all faiths be it Hindus, Muslims or Christians or X, Y and Z had come together and got united. I have said this in United States as well – that India has expertise in creating histories. Our staffers were distributing condoms as mandated by Gujarat government. Our workers had got arrested for the simple reason that they were distributing condoms. The state government itself had provided us the condoms to distribute them.

VADODARA: Rajpipla’s gay Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil has claimed that many religious leaders of the country had offered to have sex with him.Gohil, who was the country’s first royal to go public about his sexual preference, said this on Thursday while addressing a gathering of students and teachers in a programme organised by Sardar Patel University’s Department of Social Work at education town Vallabh Vidyanagar in Anand district.Hailing the Supreme Court’s decision, Gohil said that earlier staffers and volunteers of the Lakshya Trust had to face lot of harassment from the policeGohil was delivering a special talk on ‘LGBTQA: Issues and Concerns’ at the university’s auditorium in the backdrop of the historic judgement of the Supreme Court which earlier this month decriminalised section 377.“In 2013, all the religious leaders of India had come together against us. I have said this in United States as well – that India has expertise in creating histories. For the first time in the history of our country, religious leaders of all faiths be it Hindus, Muslims or Christians or X, Y and Z had come together and got united. Why? Because of the same hypocrisy, against section 377,” said Gohil recounting the legal battle that voluntary groups had pursued against section 377 of the IPC that used to refer to ‘unnatural offences’.“I am not ashamed in saying that many religious leaders have come to me for having sex,” he said, terming it as an example of ‘hypocrisy’.“In fact, while promoting HIV screening, I specifically target ashrams. I ask my volunteers and staffers to go at this ashrams and conduct HIV tests there as there will be HIV positive persons there,” he said.Hailing the Supreme Court’s decision, Gohil said that earlier staffers and volunteers of the Lakshya Trust had to face lot of harassment from the police.“I want to share an episode that we had encountered with the Vadodara police. Our workers had got arrested for the simple reason that they were distributing condoms. Our staffers were distributing condoms as mandated by Gujarat government. The state government itself had provided us the condoms to distribute them. But the police arrested our staff blaming them for spreading ‘homo-giri’,” he said.“The staffers were being treated as criminals even as they were carrying out a work which Gujarat government itself was supporting. Not only that, Vadodara police had forced sex with them and that too without condoms,” he said, adding that the staffers could have got infected because the cops themselves could have been HIV positive.“It was because of such harassment from the police and misuse of section 377 that we had to move court,” he said.

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