Sex between men was celebrated in classical Arab & Ottoman cultures. eg., Rumi’s poetry and its homoerotic imagery or Ottoman art depicting gay sex. Despite the Koran, the criminalisation of homosexuality in many Islamic societies in fact originated in modern colonial laws.

Sham Al-Tabrizi visited Rumi and both of them did not come out from the room for two years. That made his wife and son worried and they chased Sham away. Rumi went into depression or huzun, after that and produced some of the best love poems during this period.

An illustration from the 19th Century Ottoman book ‘Sawaqub al-Manaquib’, titled “Spilling the wine".

A painting of an average Bacha bazi group in Afghanistan. Its embedded in Islamic culture. This practice of child prostitution and child slavery started when the Sandnigger cult spread across the Hindu Kush. We find 0 references of this practice existing before. Even today, this practice is rampant as Muslim pedophiles smuggle small boys in large numbers from Pakistan into Afghanistan and vice verse using their agents. Utterly disgusting.

Homosexuality was common in Isamic culture during the 15th century in South Asia. It is written of Sultan Mahmud Mizra, uncle of Babur in Tuzuk-i-baburi (9):
He took beautiful boys of his noblemen and admitted them into his “boys’ harem”. He surrounded himself with scores of beautiful boys. This practice became a custom throughout his kingdom and noblemen occupied themselves with this mode.
As per Defenceforumindia (12):
Muslim men who sodomise young boys are not considered homosexuals or paedophiles. The love of young boys is not a phenomenon restricted to Afghanistan; homosexual pederasty is common in neighbouring Pakistan, too. rich men buy boys as young as 11 from impoverished families for sexual slavery. The boys are dressed in women’s clothes and made to dance and sing at parties, before being carted away by the men for sex.

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Another famous story is relationship between Alauddin Khalji and Malik Kafur

Omar Ibn Al-Khattab had an anal disease which could only be cured by semen

which made him passive homosexual

11th century Islamic LGBTQ+ art with camels

Farewells of Abu-Zayd and Al-Harith before the return to Mecca, from 'Al Maqamat'