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Gavreel Mendoza 👏👏👏

Ladies and gentlemen, let set this right now, Gavreel Mendoza is one of the best gay characters in the history of bl.

Aside from the fact that his charmingness will make any man from the face of this earth gets a goosebumps and chills (and even a possible boner), Gav is a pure representation of a confident and manly gay.

One of the problems that many bl dramas have is that they struggle to come out with a character that fulfils the requirements of a perfect lover, but under hetero standards, so that's the reason why we get lots of "I don't like men but I like you" plots.

Even though bl is about boyxboy stories we hardly see actual gay characters performing the main roles, the majority of them are newbies bi, just-one-man homos or eat-it-all disaster. But our angel of peace is a self aware homo with a very functional gaydar.

Gav already passed his phase of realization with Pearl but after that, he appropriated the fact of being into guys and he started to approach them proudly. He also noticed Cairo sexual orientation before even knowing him and that's why he was, since the beginning, very straightforward about his feelings (I haven't seen such a big gay energy before).

Gav is a confident gay that doesn't need to use the "love has nothing to do with gender" trope to hide himself. He's still manly, soft and lovely, all at the same time, and he gets no problem to show to the world who he is and who he likes.

Yass Gav you're the man!

I've been questioning myself for many years about what makes bl series/dramas/movies being different from other gay themed productions that we all have watched and somehow we find not the same to consider them as bl.

Well... I have come with a conclusion that I've been using to sort of solve my internal struggle over this matter.

>>All those stories happen in a imaginary bl-world !<<

Let me get to my point....

As you probably have noticed, bl is mostly insane crack mixed with silliness and illogical situations, that even if we try to scratch from them some reality and logic, it flows under our finger because most of the situations shown on it would never happen in real life. But that's not the point about the bl-world.

Bl-world is a world where feeling sexual/romantic attraction to same gender is the rule and not the exception (of course that just applies to males).

That's the key to make the stories flows with such artlessness.

I've noticed that in bl, the characters normally don't have a big internal fight about the fact of being or became homo, rather it mostly is about liking "this or that guy".

Despite that some of them go through family issues and social pressure, that's not the main focus on their stories. Contrary, they find a lot of support everywhere.

This theory also support why suddenly everyone become homo in bl stories; well, that's because in this world that's a common situation. If you like a guy just go for it, that's it, no one question their sexuality or any other issues surrounding this matter.

BUT, as I can see, bl aren't stories about LGBT people. And this could be so controversial, but the discussion about being part of the community rarely is shown and it goes through the branches with the "love is love" plot. Actually queer characters are usually on the sides and are clearly distinguished from the main and side couples.

Here some examples

Bl is all about guys pursuing other guys in an non-hetero world but with hetero and cliche techniques.

Don't get me wrong, I love bl, and I find so refreshing being able of seeing homo romantic stories in such a chilled atmosphere. But let's get real, that won't happen in the world we live in (or least not in the one I live in). Being gay hasn't been normalized as the way those drama exposed, and that's the main reason to me to love bl that much. That's magical!!