The Manu Samhita, upon which Hindu law used to be based upon and to some extent in rural areas is still given the nod, condmens homoexual acts very strongly. The entire text is available on “Sacred Texts”, a website that has everything on it. I’ve read the entire Manu Samhita when I found it in a library years ago, and read parts again since. Homosexual behavior in a many is punishable IIRC by castration, and a woman by making a hole in her nose and cutting a finger off. Something like that. I may have the details incorrect, and of cousre who knows how severely people were punished. But sexual immorality was extremely frowned upon not just socially, but legally.
On the contrary, Islam has been rife with pederasty for a long time, maybe since the beginning (I do not know) but their practice of molesting young Hindu male adolescents and boys was one of the many reasons Hindus loathed the moslem conqerors. I’ve seen a Moghul style miature painting of Aurungzeb in a bed with a Hindu adolscent boy.
The idea that Hinduism was tolerant of homosexual behavior is sheer ignorance.
Thank you!
(Comp. malfunctioning, I can only turn it on for a few minutes at a time!)
correction - in a male by castration. WIll have to check that for accuracy