Nepal MP offers honeymoon package to gay Indian prince

[jun_i]

Nepal MP offers honeymoon package to gay Indian prince (Times of India, Dec 2009)

Excerpts: KATHMANDU: Nepal’s first and only openly gay member of parliament...Sunil Babu Pant... has offered a wedding and honeymoon package to Indian icon for the sexual minorities, Manvendra Singh Gohil, the crown prince of Rajkot... Gohil wanted to tie the knot

Comments

[lilith_queen]

That? That is COMPLETELY AWESOME. I mean, just...awwww that is SO COOL. I'm incoherent at the general coolness.

[jun_i]

Yes, that news was made of awesome. Both MP Pant and the prince are people of courage and it's good that they can put their public :-) I know in person some gay people who live in a more tolerant environment than the prince was facing, and who have far less to lose, but who refuse to even come remotely close to supporting gay rights or even being publicly associated with known glbt people because they're scared of how (they imagine) non-gay people would see them. So for the prince to come out the way he did given social climate in a place where people burnt effigies of him for being gay, well, that took some guts.