How Gay Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil built India’s first ‘Queer Bagh’ for disowned LGBTQ people

• In 2011, India's first gay prince, Manvendra Singh Gohil of Gujarat's Rajpipla, conceived on the idea of an ashram for LGBTQ people
• By 2021, "Queer Bagh" was up and running, with an accommodation of 8 to ten queer people looking for a home
• Queer Bagh has been built on a royal estate gifted to Manvendra by his father
• The ashram provides shelter and vocational training to queer people who are tortured and disowned by their families
• A century ago, in the 1920s, the same royal estate was home to a royal palace that fell victim to raging floods in the adjacent Narmada river
• Manvendra now aims to make the entire campus solar powered, and to open it up to birdwatchers, tourists and volunteers