Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay.
Contents:
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- THE POPULARY OF GAY MANGA JAPAN: WHAT ARE ‘BARA’ AND ‘YAOI’ AND WHO ARE S FANS?
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
In the world of manga, LGBTQ works are classified as beg eher yuri (which is a term for lbian-related ntent) or yaoi (a term for gay-related ntent). * western gay manga *
Do you thk wtern gay movi/ics/books n be lled BL/BoysLove/Yaoi?
Wh the recent succs of Heartstopper, and the creasg equency of posts about other wtern gay movi on the sub, I’ve been thkg about whether or not the genre tle “BL” clearly not an Asian ntent orig or not. I thk this is a bate closely tied to that other bate this sub equently has: “is all gay media bl, or is bl a unique subgenre wh the gay romance genre? Bee for all Heartstopper was an adorable gay show, didn’t feel like a bl to me.
THE POPULARY OF GAY MANGA JAPAN: WHAT ARE ‘BARA’ AND ‘YAOI’ AND WHO ARE S FANS?
* western gay manga *
The only thg mon is the gay man, and that alone I do not thk a bl mak. Like I mentned above, this sub has this bate all the time: what separat out bl om other gay ntent?
That is how I feel about asian bl and wtern gay ntent: they are both good, but they are different. TLDR: The wtern world n produce gay stori (and they n produce some pretty great on) I jt don’t thk the stori n be lled bl bee I believe bl is specifilly the name of a genre whose stylistic elements are partially fed by s regn of orig (Asia).
Japane ics, or manga, are replete wh same-sex pairgs – but are they actually as gay as wtern rears might terpret them to be? While LGBTQ+ reprentatn appears, at a glance, to be prolific, not all queer characters or relatnships are necsarily as herently gay as they appear, and not all “gay” material is tend for a gay rearship.