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Asia falls in love with Thai Boys Love

The TV series ‘2gether The Series’ has gained popularity internationally.

Buoyed by the openness of the LGBT community, Thailand’s “Boys Love” (BL) movies and series have been well received in the local market and are considered promising export products that can draw lucrative revenue streams and foster business opportunities in other areas, including tourism.

BL dramas are known in Thailand as Y Series, derived from the Japanese term “yaoi”, which refers to a genre of fictional media that features homoerotic relationships between male characters.

The government last year said that Thailand’s Y content market was worth more than 1 billion baht, with the key export markets including China, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines,…

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