20, SHE/HER, INDIA
I’ll be frank. Illegally, BL is very easy to find. I’m not exactly a veteran, but neither am I a newbie, so I know what to search for and where to go when I need to find something online. However, in terms of hard copies…
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23, HE/HIM, JAPAN
I’m a bi man, and I use Fudanshi. People like to use my mlm identity in discourse, as long as I agree with them (otherwise I don’t count). I like m|m representation in BL, it’s fictional, it’s for fun! It doesn’t need to be 1:1…
28, SHE/HER, ALGERIA
Fandom is still mostly on the internet, we don’t really meet except for friends who I knew before and we discovered we both liked BL. When I was living in France I would go to conventions, expos or in cafes to meet friends who liked BL as well. They were some BL published in France that I could order, but it was the internet that made it available for me. There is no BL publication in Algeria, so I read and watch those online. I can understand why we do piracy (especially as in my country we don’t have the official). Also some people can’t have those is their room because of homophobic parents. But if the comic is officially published in your country we should stop reading it illegally. Also I disapprove strongly of websites who make money by hosting scans. And as a creator myself I think that refusing to take down scans when artists ask is unacceptable.
— 28, She/Her, Algeria
29, SHE/HER, PHILIPPINES
I liked how I was able to perceive sweetness, romance, and libido in a more positive light, that I was able to unabashedly “squee” over BL without any of the hangups, as opposed to consuming straight/HL content. — 29, She/Her, Philippines
21, THEY/THEM, CAMBODIA
The only ship wars were like “Naruto is married to Hinata, how can you ship him with Sasuke, that is cheating!!1!1” but ship wars were strictly between groups that preferred X ship over Y ship. Omegaverse was something exciting and scary, not grounds for trans…
30, HE OR SHE, USA
I was in high-school and I had just realized I was LGBT+ and I was trying to figure out what that means for me in some way. I found the BL anime Gravitation on Comcast on Demand and so I watched and I fell in love with the anime right away. I found myself relating to Shuichi (the pink haired MC) right away on a deep emotional level.
— 30, He or She, USA
27, SHE/HER, CHILE
When I first started, it was mostly stuff available only in Japanese, and nowadays there’s a lot of translations, and also different source material. Also I have a lot of friends in the world that make fanmade stuff, so it’s cool we can connect by…
24, HE/HIM, CANADA
Queer content was not freely available in Brazil (it’s a very… complicated culture) so the internet (blogs and MSN groups and twitter and tumblr) was the only way I could find any of it, nowadays there’s a lot more queer content there, and here in…
24, HE/HIM, CANADA
I liked all of BL! The porn, the romance, etc. Only thing I didn’t really like was the yaoi hands but I got past it.
— 24, He/Him, Canada
BL Fan Project at FujoCon 2021
After almost one year of collecting participant responses and analyzing heaps of data, BL Fan Project will be presenting all the findings at the virtual 2021 FujoCon. Come check it out at “The BL Fan Project” panel on Friday, June 11 at 4:30 PM CDT.…
