Well Thailand itself is a different country and culture. Thailand has 5 genders and has always been accepting of gay culture. ALWAYS. I believe it's the only country in the East that has not be colonised by the West so it doesn't have this sense of perversity towards sexuality---and hence this sexual bias. In their culture---it is not a "FANGIRL" phenmenon perpetuated by western women or yaoi obsessors.
I believe in Thailand the genders are male, female, women who transgendered to men, men who transgendered to women, and then those who are in between. There are those who are gay, straight, or bi. They have always had gay characters on their shows---always. But they have never had outright gay couples kissing and BL romances until the last 3-4 years. It is going both ways. I mean it is aggressive in how they are going about it.
It is so aggressive, I've even had to take a break and find shows that doesn't have BL or GL storylines. Thai stories are seriously aggressive. Taiwan is moving really fast along those lines but they have their own niche...it's not really being placed in the "norm" stories. They have thier separate story. In Thailand BL and GL is mixed in with any other drama---like a regular couple.
So for instance you'd watch something like...ugh the gods...I hate using stupid movies I never watched...but my students did...so lets take that wolf kid from that vampire movie---with the baseball and stuff. One of them was named Edward. Anyway picture something like that but the wolf kid was gay. That's how normalized BL or GL is in Thai dramas.
HwangEunByul:
well, for me i am not just an addict just to pretty asian boys play gay roles... "western actors" as long as it is a good story no matter how the acting is (regardless if i am fangirling or being supportive to a case)
in my country, its illegal and can go to jail for holding hands.... tho i have a story of my own. its not about "asian pretty boys", these are novels... and i read some before i even know its a drama.... and u know what.... i feel sad sometimes cz this is just a character ???? eventho some actors need more training. Addicted or not.... china is a little crazy i tell ya... they even now banned hiphop!
i will always watch these dramas and interact with them. i am still sad... for addicted tho... their chemistry was great. and this post was in 2017... i didnt get the full story of how old is this then . YEARS YEARS AGO.. i didnt know that ^^
I recommend looking towards some Thai dramas then or even the Taiwanese dramas.
My current of BL is coming from this Youtube vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FULhLdmbSa4
If you click her summary their there---all on dailymotion. I'm watching History2 right now. I'm on ep 3---Loving it! There are links to others. I think there is maybe, maybe 1 Korean couple and if I remember that drama---that wasn't a gay couple, but the yaoi girls really pushed it. It was just like in School 2013.