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HOW THE MIDDLE EAST MOVED FROM TOLERANT OF HOMOSEXUALY TO A BATTLEFIELD OF ANTI-GAY VLENCE
At the height of the Islamic Goln Age – a perd om the mid-8th century to the mid-13th century when Islamic civilisatn is believed to have reached s tellectual and cultural zenh – homosexualy was openly spoken and wrten about. Abu Nuwas (756-814), one of the great Arab classil poets durg the time of the Abbasid Caliphate, wrote publicly about his homosexual sir and relatns.