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A Qualitative Exploration Of Discourses In Fan Community, /R/Boyslove, Jessica Lin
A Qualitative Exploration Of Discourses In Fan Community, /R/Boyslove, Jessica Lin
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The Boys Love (BL) genre, which tells stories of male-male romantic and sexual relationships, and originates in Japan, has made strides through transnational and transcultural engagement across countries, aided heavily by the internet age. I examine the development of the BL genre from its controversial beginnings to its feminist response as well as queer reception. Over the course of fifty years, the genre has exploded in popularity, becoming a more progressive medium of social change. As BL has become more diverse in content and broken with older conventions of the genre, what are the current discourses among the BL fan …