I don't even know how accurate this is, but I found out about homoerotic behaviour during Safavid Iran from [this meme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xWAe92Wpjc), and I later read the wikipedia article on it, but I couldn't find that many articles which went more in depth about it. This is also a bit surprising to me since this was centuries after persia converted to islam, and as everyone knows, abrahamic religions don't tend to be the kindest toward gay people.
How common was homosexuality during the period? How accepted was it culturally, and was there any legal consequences for such? Was this a religious or ethnic/cultural? Is there even any concrete evidence for this, or is it a disputed/ruled out in the academic sphere? Furthermore, consirering Iran's modern day stance on LGBT issues, and Islam as a whole, if common/acceped at one time, when and how did Islam change so drastically?
Thank you in advance, and sorry for the odd formatting haha
I answered a similar question recently: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/pkydwa/i_heard_professor_barbero_speaking_about_a_very/hc9zade/
I would reiterate what I wrote there: this is not about homosexuality in the sense that term is used in the modern West.
Regarding Islam - Islamic scholars did condemn the practice, it's just that their condemnations fell on deaf ears. Kind of like how you read about sultans and emirs getting drunk a lot. It isn't because Islam as a religion was more lax about alcohol back then. A lot of people just didn't care what the ulama had to say.
To answer your last question, take a look at Afsaneh Najmabadi, Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005).