Yeah it's always the same stories, these topics are so gay.
Here's something new and interesting for everyone: translation from wikipedia article regarding Tunisia...
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situation_des_personnes_LGBT%2B_en_Tunisie(there's no opinion behind this, just a sane curiosity)
From the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century, homosexual men, despite the stigma, had social roles in Tunisia as in the rest of the Arab-Muslim world: they served as intermediaries between the masculine and feminine worlds at festivals. weddings, are invited to men's homes in the presence of their wives, and are admitted to women's private spaces in the same way as blind people.
Furthermore, homosexual relations are frequent in beylical courts (The bey de Tunis is at the origin and governor representative of the Ottoman Empire in Tunisia) and Tunisian aristocratic families, such as during the Hafsid era when, according to documentation, a large number of "effeminate" men offered their company to court men, while presenting themselves as singers and dancers, or as the Husseinite sovereign Sadok Bey who is open about his intimate relationship with his vizier Mustapha Ben Ismaïl.
For the middle and poor classes, meetings take place in all possible private and public places, such as hammams, barber shops, zaouïas, but especially places accessible to travelers such as fondouks, hammams and oukalas. Moreover, the traveler Jacques Philippe Laugier de Tassy described in his diary in 1725 that “sodomy is widely used among the Turks of Algiers, the deys, the beys and the principals give the example”.
Note that sodomy is then prohibited in Tunisian society, whether homosexual or heterosexual. Indeed, for centuries it constituted one of the rare situations where the Tunisian Muslim woman had the right to request a divorce.
According to popular culture, when a woman wanted to separate from a sodomite husband with her, she had to present herself to the qadi** and squat in his presence while putting her shoes on backwards, this meant that the husband was dating her upside down.
**A qadi (Arabic: قاضي [qāḍī], "judge") is a Muslim judge fulfilling civil, judicial and religious functions. The qadi is a justice of the peace and a notary, resolving problems of daily life.
This post was edited by Meanwhile on Nov 29 2023 11:54am