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Manvendra Singh Gohil is the Crown Prince of Rajpipla, an erstwhile princely State of Gujarat and the 39th direct descendant of the 650 year old Gohil Dynasty. He is the first member of a royal family to openly come out as gay to the world. He is the only Indian to be interviewed by Oprah Winfrey three times and has been featured on the show "Keeping up with the Kardashians ". He is the Chairperson and Co founder of Lakshya Trust dedicated towards Empowerment of LGBT community. He is also the Brand Ambassador of AIDS Healthcare Foundation India Cares, the world's oldest and largest non profit organization for HIV testing and treatment. Currently he is developing his dream project, A LGBTQA community campus at his royal establishment of Hanumanteshwar for the social and financial empowerment of LGBT community

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Embracing the Exception: Mainstreaming Discussions around Gender Divide - Parmesh Shahani Manvendra Singh Gohil In Conversation with Koutilya Chhajed

On 20th 03.00 PM To 03:40 PM

The conversation was very interesting where in Parmesh Shahani explains the difference between ‘Gender’ and ‘Sex’, elaborating he explains that gender is the organ that we have and sex is our behavior with it. Parmesh also talks about his journey and coming out of the closet and telling his family the truth about his sexuality expressing that it was not easy but his family gracefully accepted him. In the conversation, Manvendra Singh Gohil who is an Indian Prince also talks about his journey and how he gets calls and messages every day about the people who are facing the same situations as he was facing he also says that there would be a movie made on Parmesh life.