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The stirrg scen are om the Che fantasy perd seri Word of Honor, the latt h the gay romance genre that has explod populary Cha: boys’ love. ” Subtle gay dramas, adapted om boys’ love webnovels, has bee a lucrative bs Cha, where censorship of anythg LGBTQ-related is tight. But the appete for queer ntent is jt too big to ignore, a mand that not om gay men, but mostly straight least eight shows adapted om novels wh boys’ love romanc are expected to premiere this year across Cha’s major streamg platforms, cludg Alibaba’s You, Tencent Vio, Mango TV, and iQIYI.
“This type of queer, more fantastic than real, do ltle jtice to the gay muny, ” said Zhange Ni, a profsor at Virgia Tech who studi Che webnovels. Only the ‘homonormative’ gay characters, men who are handsome, wealthy, wh exceptnal quali, are liked by nsumers. ”“This type of queer, more fantastic than real, do ltle jtice to the gay muny.
”High risk, high returnsMakg and showg boys’ love dramas Cha is a t-and-moe game between the prof-driven entertament dtry and the homophobic censorship 2016, the h teen seri Addicted (also known as Hero), a drama wh explic gay scen, was pulled om onle streamg platform iQIYI before uld release s last three episos. In 2018, the sci-fi drama Guardian went offle on vio hostg se You two months after s release, even though the origal gay romance storyle was rewrten as iendship. Prit, thor of Guardian and Word of Honor, will see at least four more of her novels adapted to as the genre thriv, homosexualy remas taboo Cha.