Homosexualy is punishable by ath Iran. But when the gay Iranian poet Payam Feili me unr prsure, he fled to a surprisg place
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MEET THE GAY IRANIAN POET WHO HAS TAKEN REFUGE AN UNLIKELY PLACE: ISRAEL
* gay persian poets *
HOMOSEXUALITY iii.
HOMOSEXUALITY. A sharp ntrast exists between the treatment of homosexualy Islamic law, on the one hand (see ii.
From the dawn of Persian poetry the nth century all through to the twentieth century, not only was homosexualy ndoned Persian poetry, but fact homoeroticism formed almost the only amatory subject of Persian ghazals (short son-like lyrics) and the ma topic of much of Persian love poetry. In later tim, when polil and social circumstanc changed and slav were not as readily available as durg the ontier wars, boys different walks of life bee the targets of homoerotic love. Novic workg unr master craftsmen, errand boys (šāgerds) shops, and youths workg at different tras were now mostly the targets of homoerotic love poems, although ls equently qasidas than ghazals, quatras, and ocsnal piec (qetʿas).