My first experience had three steps I can recall: first I uncovered the Duo Maxwell/Heero Yui ship in online forums and Google image search, then my best friend bought a VHS copy of Maki Murakami’s Gravitation, and finally I purchased a manga titled FAKE by Sanami Matoh. The rest is history, I’ve been a BL fan and outspoken advocate of the genre since. What I liked about BL when I discovered it was its ability to crack open my sexual identity bias at the time because growing up in a Catholic society, the LGBTQ+ tag was a loaded gun and if you identified as queer, they would point that gun at you or encourage you to point it at yourself. I found the courage to exist in my own skin and to start creating welcoming spaces for queer friends.
— 34, She/Her, Dominican Republic
34, SHE/HER, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
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