“I Can See Myself in Them, but They Are Not Me”: Asian Boys’ Love (BL) Drama and Gay Male Viewers

• Main Authors: Collin, Jerome, Ahmad Junaidi, Ahmad Hadzmy, Ting, Su Hie
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) 2022
• Subjects: H Social Sciences (General); HT Communities. Classes. Races
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/38239/1/Boys1.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/38239/; https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/11/4/163/review_report; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11040163
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

Recent years have witnessed significant growth in research on the phenomenon of Asian Boys’ Love (BL) dramas, a new entertainment genre that features male characters who engage in same-sex love relations. However, much of this research has focused on, among others, heterosexual female viewers in ter...