Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil publicly came out in an interview to a local newspaper in 2006, becoming the first openly gay royal in the country. He was 41 at the time.
Until 2018, homosexuality was illegal in India under a colonial era law that demanded up to life imprisonment for anyone committing sexual acts "against the order of nature."
"The day I came out, my effigies were burnt. There were a lot of protests, people took to the streets and shouted slogans saying that I brought shame and humiliation to the royal family and to the culture of India. There were death-threats and demands that I be stripped off of my title," Gohil told Insider in April 2022.
Gohil also explained that in the years before he came out publicly, he had been subject to cruel conversion therapy and electroshock treatments by his family.
Today, Gohil is fighting to outlaw gay conversion therapy in India and fight the stigma against the LGBTQ community in the country.
"Now we have to fight for issues like same-sex marriage, right to inheritance, right to adoption. It's a never-ending cycle. I have to keep fighting," he said.