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The Thai 'Boys' Love' TV Dramas Conquering Asia

At her lowest point, fighting burnout and depression in her Chinese hometown, Huang Bingbing says she found comfort in watching the escapist love story of two young men on a then-unknown Thai TV drama.

International Business Times · Jun 10, 2024

Sikkim: SDF announces six candidates for Assembly polls

Sikkim Democratic Front announces candidates for upcoming Assembly elections, including former chief minister Pawan Kumar Chamling.

The Hindu · Mar 11, 2024

OPINION - The British Library hack is a national outrage – and the Government must pay to save it

It is a national outrage that the British Library has been unable to fulfil its function over the past three months following a savage cyberattack – and that its functioning is likely to be severely limited for many months to come.

Evening Standard · Jan 19, 2024

New Paper Makes a Bold Plan for Where to Look For Aliens: Far Beyond Our Galaxy

It has been over sixty years since Dr. Frank Drake (father of the Drake Equation) and his colleagues mounted the first Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) survey.

Inverse · Apr 22, 2023

No Pseudonymity for Parent and Now-Adult Child Challenging School District's Supposedly Anti-White Curriculum

From B.L. v. Fetherman, decided last Wednesday by Magistrate Judge Jessica Allen (D.N.J.): This case arises out of Plaintiffs' legal challenge to portions of Mountain Lakes School District's ("MLSD") public-school curriculum on the basis that it is discriminatory against white students…. [A]ccording to Plaintiffs, Defendants have unlawfully discriminated against [B.L.'s…

Reason · Feb 14, 2023

Challenging the norm

Yaoi or Boys' Love (BL) has grown from an underground to mainstream fictional genre. It emerged from women's manga comics in Japan in the 1980s, which portrayed the relationship between young boys based on the seme (active) and uke (receptive) dichotomy. Through an informal fan network, the transnational phenomenon came…

Bangkok Post · Nov 6, 2022

Thailand’s gay-romance TV dramas help revive flagging tourism industry

The popularity of gay-romance series sends fans from home and abroad flocking to filming locations across the country

The Guardian - UK · Jul 30, 2022

The sof t power of love

PM Prayut's BL conundrum, shameful scenes at London Pride.

Bangkok Post · Jul 24, 2022

Making dreams come true

Last month Thailand saw a marriage equality bill pass its first reading in parliament, which was regarded as a historic move that could make marriage law applicable to couples across all genders, not only opposite sexes.

Bangkok Post · Jul 24, 2022

Thailand betting on dramatic 'boys' love' tourism boom

TOKYO: Thailand has begun a campaign to attract international tourists, and especially Japanese travellers, using the popularity of homegrown productions of "boys' love," or BL dramas, as a drawcard.

Bangkok Post · Jun 29, 2022