
Part Two: The Gay Ottomans: Homosexuality in the Medieval Ottoman Empire
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Margaret continues talking with Kaveh Hoda about the complicated history of homosexuality and homoeroticism in one of the most important empires of the medieval era.
Sources:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41299403
https://www.thecollector.com/osman-i-ottoman-founder/
https://islamichistory.org/osman-gazi/
https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/jmurj/vol9/iss1/4/
https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/homosexuality-ii/
https://www.webology.org/data-cms/articles/20220528061731pmwebology%2019%20(2)%20-%20670%20pdf.pdf
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6074556/
https://yoksis.bilkent.edu.tr/pdf/files/10.1177-0363199013519126.pdf
https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/164086
https://www.juancole.com/2025/12/literature-societies-homoerotic.html
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