Gay Defn & Meang - Merriam-Webster

Contents:

• HOW TO SAY GAY FARSI
• GAY PERSIAN
• DEFINITIONS FOR GAYGEɪGAY
• HOW TO SAY GAY PERSIAN?GEɪGAY
• GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)
• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
• GAY NAME MEANG PERSIAN
• WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE GAY? DEFN AND MEANG OF GAY
• GAY
• NAM WH "GAY" MEANG

HOW TO SAY GAY FARSI

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While some mentators claimed Mercury hid his sexual orientatn om the public, others claimed he was "openly gay". In addn, "Hler thorized an edict 1941 prcribg the ath penalty for SS and police members found guilty of gay activy. A sharp ntrast exists between the treatment of homosexualy Islamic law, on the one hand (see ii.

GAY PERSIAN

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). An stctive example of the variety of the subjects of homoerotic love is a number of short poems the genre of Šahrāšub by Masʿud Saʿd [d. The ḵaṭṭ is scribed varly as green (ḵaṭṭ-e sabz), st-lored (ḵaṭṭ-e zangāri), mk-lored (ḵaṭṭ-e moš-k), buddg ḵaṭṭ (ḵaṭṭ-e now-damida), etc., but most often upled wh ḵāl (bety spot) on acunt of their homonymy.

DEFINITIONS FOR GAYGEɪGAY

In Persian love lyrics, however, one n hardly fd the kd of homosexual relatnship that is unrstood the morn Wt; love is a one-sid and asymmetril affair. Therefore, should be characterized more properly as pedophilia, and s physil aspect as perasty, rather than scribed unr the more nebulo ncept of homosexual love. In many poems the poet-lover scrib himself as a fatherly figure to the beloved, and ed a homosexual may take a tame to his home and re for his well-beg and tn (actg as a ‘sugar daddy’).

HOW TO SAY GAY PERSIAN?GEɪGAY

21), and the urse of which he scrib mute tail what an adult homosexual uld do for his tame. Not only Mlim boys were the subject of homoerotic sir, but so were boys om mory groups, more particularly Zoroastrians boys (mōḡ-bača) servg taverns and Christian on (tarsā-bača), sometim belongg to nvents; for example:. The social acceptance of homoeroticism, spe of relig prohibn, was such that ʿOnṣor-al-Maʿāli Kay-Kāv, a prce of Ṭabartān, his well-known mirror for prc, monly known as Qāb-nāma, wrten as a pendium of advice for his son Gilānšāh, not only approv of male homosexualy, but suggts the bt way of practicg , even though he is by all acunts a man of piety, bound by the dictat of relign.

The lerary reflectn of homoerotic love is not nfed to Persian poetry, but clear trac of are found prose as well, even though is poetry that manifts self most. In classil poems, f to be publicly read or reced, scriptn of the physil aspects of homoeroticism seldom go beyond embracg, kissg, and neckg (b o kenār). For the origs of homoerotic love and s prevalence Persia and elsewhere we do not have to go far.

The public acceptance of homoerotic love Persian lerature, more particularly Khorasan and Transoxiana durg the 10th-12th centuri, spe of strong relig prohibn both pre-Islamic and Islamic Persia, however, requir an explanatn.

GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)

In pre-Islamic Persia the harsh punishment foreen for homosexualy attts to s existence, but there is no evince of s reflectn pre-Islamic “lerature.

MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

” The romanc classil Persian lerature based on Parthian and Middle Persian origals such as Faḵr-al-D Gāni’s Vis o Rām, ʿAyyuqi’s Waraqa o Golšāh, ʿOnsori’s Vāmeq o ʿAḏrā, Neẓāmi’s Ḵosrow o Šir and Haft Peykar, and possibly Attar’s Ḵosrow-nāma all treat of heterosexual love wh no ht of homosexualy.

GAY NAME MEANG PERSIAN

Nor n any trace of homosexual love be found the entire Šāh-nāma, which clus several romanc such as Zāl o Rudāba, Rostam o Tahma, Bižan o Maniža, and the fatuatn of Sudāba for Siāvaš.

WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE GAY? DEFN AND MEANG OF GAY

Yet New Persian poetry homoerotic love explos a surprisg manner that attts to s wi currency and clear acceptabily, particularly urt circl and among the urt poets.

Different views have been exprsed as to the reasons for the exuberance of homosexual love Khorasanian poetry. Šamisā exprs the view that homosexual love was prevalent among the Turks and was troduced by them to Persia (p. There is a possibily that Greek loni northeastern Persia durg the Hellenistic perd had a share removg or rcg the stigma of homosexual love and makg socially acceptable, whereas southern Persia, a bastn of Zoroastrianism, and where a good al of Zoroastrian wrgs origated, the suatn was different.

That emotnal ti should velop between Sufi mentors (pirs) and their young discipl the Sufi hospic (ḵānaqāhs) is only natural, given the wispread tenncy toward homoeroticism and s social acceptance on the one hand, and the excln of women om ḵānaqāhs, on the other. In spe of the transparency of homoerotic love the lyril prelus of the qasidas the 10th-12th centuri, the ghazals and robāʿis of the ʿErāqi school, notably Saʿdi and Hafez, and later the poems of the Safavid school and Indian style, as many ocsnal poems (qatáaʿāt), is surprisg that among historians of Persian lerature, om Hermann Ethé (q. ), and ʿAbd-al-Ḥosayn Zarrkub, none has broached the issue as such and discsed the implitns of homosexual love the velopment of the motifs, imag, and metaphors Persian poetry.

GAY

1946) had been published; and his diatrib agast major figur of Persian lerature (wh the exceptn of Ferdowsi) went hand hand wh his homophobia and gave rise to vehement attacks on poets, Sufis, homosexuals, and morn advot of classil Persian poetry, cludg Moḥammad-ʿAli Fo-ḡi, ʿAli Aṣḡar Ḥekmat, Qāsem Ḡani (qq.

Recently, however, Šamisā, a lerary scholar, has dited a volume to the subject: Šāhed-bāzi dar adabiyāt-e fārsi (Homosexual love Persian lerature, 2002) which he discs var aspects of the subject and which he has assiduoly brought together ample exampl om Persian poetry and prose. The neglect of, or rather, the omissn of and silence about, the subject has been apparently due to a number of , cludg general currents of homophobia both the Wt and morn Persia, aggravated perhaps by the translatn and discsn of acunts of earlier European travelers and wrers on Persia and the Middle East, who had emphasized the strong element of homoeroticism the East. Recently, however, the growg refal of gays and lbians to accept a clanste existence and the rultant visibily of gay culture has led some wrers the Wt to pay attentn also to the wispread currency of perasty the Middle East.

NAM WH "GAY" MEANG

THE TREND IN MODERN IRAN Morn Persian poetry belongs to a climate strongly fluenced by Wtern notns, and as a nsequence homoerotic poems have practilly disappeared. It is possible, though, that wh the emergence of important gay and lbian wrers and poets and their translatn to Persian, addn to the spread of more liberal attus toward homosexualy the Wt, exemplified by the drive towards gay marriag the U.

S., morn Persian lerature would be more exprsive of homoerotic love, if not Persia self, then at least the Diaspora. Already a Persian perdil, Humān, voted to gay culture has been published Swen sce 1991.

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