Finding GL - Tagging Suggestions

@vothnthorvaldson Vothn Thorvaldson
Fri, 22 Mar 2019 16:03:42 +0000

@vothnthorvaldson wrote:

At the moment, it's pretty difficult to find LGBT-friendly content, that is for sure, and that's in general, in my opinion. Little f/f, way more m/m but lost in a sea of not-that-LGBT-friendly gay romance, to only speak about the two more common subgenres. Now I'm not personally sure the multiplication of tags is a good idea.

HGohwell:

The whole debate over BL as it's own tag is just another reason why sub categories would be a better idea. It's all romance but it's BL or GL or Het or LGBT or just non defined. The idea was likely that BL is very popular and tends to have its own very rigid tropes and stories that it follows. Only that's not really true anymore (it never really was if you look at the history) but the ones you saw early on all have the same rigid tropes. These days there's debate over whether BL is just gay romance or if it has to adhere to these tropes.

Well, yes, I think we are still dealing with that issue to be honest. Maybe not in term of numbers, but in term of what's popular.
I would personally prefer that everything goes into the Romance category, with the the BL tag be used only for stories with such rigid tropes or having a link to 'historical' Boy's Love (so I know what to avoid haha); and that other stories (particularly the ones that may have an appeal to the LGBT community; or anyone who would enjoy the story for what it is) be tagged 'm/m', 'f/f' or anything similar.