Was the ottoman empire gay friendly

So I got several asks about homosexuality in the Ottoman Empire on Tellonyme. I mean for example when the Sultans had male slaves and sexual intercourse with them and how the Ottoman Empire in general treated homosexuality and if it was respected and accepted? First of all there is two very good works about the topic, which I trul recommend to someone who is deeply interested in this.

One of them is article about it by Stephen O. Murray - Homosexuality in the Ottoman Empire. Its 17 pages long so not that much, if you are interested, read it.

The decline of homosexuality in the late Ottoman Empire.

Secondly there is a whole doctoral thesis about the topic which I was not able to get yet, but here is the author and title maybe you can find it: Sodomy and human difference: Nailya Shamgunova- Sodomy and human difference: Anglophone conceptualisations of Ottoman male same-sex activity, c.

PS I requested the full-text pds but didnt get any access to it yet : If anyone has it please share, Im curious how it is. But I will write a conclusion here also, so people who are not that deeply interested can find some information here. So all in all its hard to separate pederasty, prostitutes and normal homosexual relationships from each other as sometimes the border was very thin.

In general it seems like that people did not really care about normal homosexuality it was a private thing. I am so glad, that with Anonymous sender and Ottomanladies, the truth came to light. To be honest the burial place of Ahmed I is quite a mess. One of the sarcofagies stands for an adult woman.

There was no daughter of Ahmed, called Zeynep who reached adulthood. Maybe she was buried somewhere else as she lived a quite long life, survivin everyone around her and her grave is not idetified yet. It would be strange. Then Kasim followed Murad quite quickly, he was born inand then Ibrahim came inso there was no time for anyone else between Murad and Ibrahim.

Either way - considering she was not just still alive inbut was surely not suffering, dying since she was involved in the diplomacy meeting - she possibly died in the s, she very probably reached 80 maybe even more in the end. We know quite little exact things about her.

Some suggested she was a Frech princess, others said was the ottoman empire gay friendly was a Jewish noble woman and there are some saying she was Hungarian. In this post I will make a summary out of his work written in Hungarian. Her origin is controversial as I already mentioned, however, it is sure that she was a slave origin woman.

How do we know? Such names were given to slaves. What we surely know about her life is that she followed herson Mehmed to Amasya in She died soon in in Bursa. The place of her death suggests that she may had health problems thats why she moved to Bursa instead of being with Mehmed in Amasya.

Keep reading. Ahmed II was the last sultan to gave Haseki Sultan title to any of his consorts. After his time, this title was abolished. Hello i Hope you're doing well! Schmid did not specify who the pashas who used the sultans were. In return for this money, he appointed him first to Budin and then to the governorship of Rumelia, allowing him to leave Istanbul.

However, this was a trick, and before Silahdar Mustafa Pasha started his duty in Rumelia, he was appointed to Timisoara, a mountainous region, with a new edict.