Finding GL - Tagging Suggestions

@liquidlilium Lili
Fri, 22 Mar 2019 23:02:01 +0000

@liquidlilium wrote:

no, sorry I should've been clearer the last part wasn't aimed at you specifically. More the people that want everything to be labeled "romance" period - with no regard with how frustrating that is to actual gay people wanting some non-het stuff for once.
And some people (and this part is definitely not aimed at you, I don't want to compare you to these ppl) even want BL and especially GL removed completely because it's "problematic" "and straight cis ppl might like it", ignoring what all queer creators and readers think.

I just wanted to point out that many gay people do appreciate having GL and BL as separate genres and don't find it icky or problematic, as long as no romance is forced into those categories only because there's gay or bi characters in it.

It's nice having some clear visibility. and being able to start reading something knowing there will be an unambiguous, uncensored (as in the romantic aspects I'm not talking about sex scenes) f/f or m/m relationship is a luxury to gay ppl. (and while there is some debate on what really defines GL/BL, you can at least expect there to be some focus on the gay relationship(s) )