The Cambridge History of Gay and Lbian Lerature - November 2014
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GAY PEOPLE ARE RECLAIMG AN ISLAMIC HERAGE
In an Abrahamanic world where eroticism is a s, homo-eroticism is somethg that is beyond the very realms of sng. But there was a Mlim poet, 1200 years ago, who immortalized homo-eroticism his poems whout the fear of beg killed or ostracized. Later as he began explorg the ia of human sexualy, his poems were centered around perasty and homo-eroticism.
A lot of crics say that he wrote about homo-eroticism and the entire ia of perasty emerged so that Mlim clerics uld mar the legacy of Nuwas by llg him a pedophile or a sodomizer. A plete disregard for the l of haraam and halaal Islam, Abu Nuwas centered his poems around the ia of homosexualy and we, both of which are haraam Islam. In 2001, the Egyptian Mistry of Culture burned roughly 6000 pi of Abu Nuwas’s poetry, emg as homoerotic and rgoatory to the relign of Islam.
"And she said, 'If you're tryg to tell me that you're gay, I already know. 20 years and many difficult nversatns later, most of Merchant's fay has e to accept his sexualy, though he says some of his relativ still stggle to fully embrace him as a gay LGBT Mlim Amerins have not gotten nearly the kd of support Merchant has worked so hard to enjoy, and stead rema closeted for fear of social stigma and faial seems to have been the se wh Omar Mateen, a Mlim man, who killed 49 people when he opened fire on a gay nightclub Orlando last month. The attack may have been motivated by ner turmoil, acrdg to Mateen's ex-wife who said that he had "gay tennci.