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Asteroid in Love and The Subtle Queer Media

 We are currently in 2026 and it has never been a great time for people who loves queer media. In the sea of garbage that the world has thrown at us, there were a silver lining that when the art is good enough, love will wins. And that's exactly how queer media especially in Asia has seen a bit of a golden age. From BL there's an explosion with Thai BL and that really propped up a lot of BLs in other countries like Japan, South Korea, and even Western countries like Canada. There are also a lot of great queer representation in media especially in trans characters strangely enough in anime. While they're sometimes still seen as comedic relief, their stories really humanized them and they became favorites amongst anime fans. And then there's the curious case of GL and Yuri. As someone who have followed this genre before I came out as trans, GL and yuri has never been as popular as this decade. I was into this genre when the biggest GL that we had was Utena and Sakura Tric...