All ready for @james_welker's lecture on BL and Yuri!
discusses the types of media, manga, anime, doujinshi, CD Dramas, LNs, live action, etc
BL alone 250 million dollar market.
BL and Yuri challenge gender norms...but not that much. ☺
Humorous art for a thousand years, but "manga" from Meiji period.
Prewar we focus on Yoshiya Nobuko.
Jojoga, lyrical pictures establish art that will establish tropes of shoujo manga art
S , intimate friendships in all girl schools
Pre and postwar discourse on "beautiful boy"
Shounenai no Bigaku candidate for Origin of "Boys Love" term
Takarazuka not feminist in origin
Tezuka influenced by Takarazuka for Princess Knight. First "story manga" for girls.
Mori Mari writer of stories with homosexuality themes
In the 1960s, lesbian themes in magazines for men. New magazines for teens deal with sexuality and homosexuality
Fabulous 49ers.
Hagio Moto, Takeniya Keiko and Masuyama Norie.
Hesse aesthetics, and European concepts flowing into Japan.
Why did these artists create shounenai? Invented as a way to circumvent gender norms.
Set in Europe and other times to fantastisize the settings to get it out of Japan now.
Death or marriage as an end of same-sex manga.
Experimentation with gender and sexuality in manga leads to early BL and Yuri
Rose of Versailles.
Pure gender bending.
Female readers of barazoku send in letters about their love for shounenai/homo manga.
Kimura Ben 1976, manga in Barazoku by for gay readers
Cimiket. Dec, 1975
Only advertised in shoujo manga, and event manga mags
Same-sex parodies of popular series.
1976 so many women writing into Barazoku, Ito gave women their own page, picked Yuri for no particular reason
Rose imagery enters shounenai.
Yaoi coined by self deprecating circle Rappori
Yaoi coined by circle to describe their own stupid stuff, not related to gay anything
June, Allan magazines on the border of fanzine/commercial.
Allan magazine ad for Yuri. 1983
Gekko 1985, has lesbian feature.
By early 80s, Yaoi term leaks into more general usage. Gay parodies take over comiket.
Women taking over shounen manga through these parodies.
And men had taken term Yuri back for porn.
1990s, Boys Love commercial bom.
Image magazine takes Boys Love as a catch copy.
Sailor Moon. Duh.
First series to be parodied by men and women.
Marimite brings back S but men and women enjoying and creating derivative work.
Maybe Yuri can be freeing, is transgressive for men the way BL is for women
Today, commercial BL magazines still going strong.
Yuri magazines in 2000s
Otome Road, fujoshi and BL culture and languages
Uke and seme not just reproducing gender roles.Playing about sex and sexuality and gender.
Fan events for BL and Yuri.
Yaro or gay comics.
Cosplay, fanart.
Yuri on Ice, queerbaiting?
Citrus, Hourou Musukou.
BL and Yuri outside Japan.
End of lecture. Awesome.
