So i read exerpts from a book that argues homosexuality was accepted in islam till western intervention.

I read some wikipedia pages about it but it mostly covers various gay kings and such, but i'd like to know how accepted homosexuality was in the general population and how ist was viewed by the clerics.

Some points that i have read and was curious if they are true or not:

-A lot of historic homoerotic poetry&art are from islamic cultures

-It was common for young man to have sex with other men to prepare them for later heterosexual marriage

-In all of recorded islamic law there was no homophobic sentencing in over 1000 years till 1979

-The sudden shift in attitude towards homosexuality was due to western colonization