Interestingly, while present-day Muslims assume that homosexual behaviour was outlawed by Islam, it was not until after the colonial period of the late 18th and 19th centuries that this conservative opinion became prominent. Scholars such as Dunne (1998), Kligerman (2007), Kugle (2010a), Lapidus and Lena (2014) and Nawaz (2016) insist that intolerance towards queerness and homosexuality was introduced to the Muslim world during the period of European colonialism.
not only islam, other cultures that had some level of comprehension of queerness got leveled and today are very homophobic places, like india, the exception being the philipines i think.
the inca empire had a bissexual god, other native people in the south america had what they called two spirits, can’t pinpoint exactly if that was intersex or nb, chinese religion had a gay god, india had a third sex.
wherever the colonizer set foot, they sure taught the locals to abhor queerness to the bone, for example in brasil, i don’t remember if it was the french or the portuguese considered the two spirits a aberration and sentenced those people to execution my canon.
Queerness is pervasive in all societies (because it is a natural aspect of humanity) and is therefore a #1 tool of fascists/colonizers/bigots of all stripes to sow division and advance their aims.
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not only islam, other cultures that had some level of comprehension of queerness got leveled and today are very homophobic places, like india, the exception being the philipines i think.
the inca empire had a bissexual god, other native people in the south america had what they called two spirits, can’t pinpoint exactly if that was intersex or nb, chinese religion had a gay god, india had a third sex.
wherever the colonizer set foot, they sure taught the locals to abhor queerness to the bone, for example in brasil, i don’t remember if it was the french or the portuguese considered the two spirits a aberration and sentenced those people to execution my canon.
Queerness is pervasive in all societies (because it is a natural aspect of humanity) and is therefore a #1 tool of fascists/colonizers/bigots of all stripes to sow division and advance their aims.