#tharntype

When I first started watching Thai BL, it felt like everything was in the BL bubble - everyone dated men, there was no homophobia, no one had to come out of the closet. The more I watch, the more evidence I find of a rich variety of ways queerness is expressed and represented in Thai BL.

That being said, here is a non-exhaustive tribute to some of my favorite moments of characters stating it clearly.

Also see my list of fun, messy, and political moments of queer specificity.

I'm Gay:

Khemjira (2025), Ep. 12: "I'm gay. Jet's also gay. We're crazy in love." I got second-hand embarrassment making this GIF

Your Dear Daddy (2026), Ep. 7: "Gay? Why hesitate to say that word? Just say it. No need to be scared. You've always been a coward."

Tale of 1000 Stars (2021), Ep. 5: "You like men, then that means you're gay. But I'm ok with it because you're my friend."

Love By Chance (2018), Ep. 1: "But I'm gay na krab." "So what?"

Moonlight Chicken (2023), Ep. 7: "Even if Li Meng stayed with his mother, he would still be gay no matter what. What era are we in? No one looks for a reason people are gay anymore. Look at me. None of my friends are gay, but I am." (Editor's note: Wen should get some gay friends)

TharnType (2019), Ep. 1: "Are you gay?" "Yes." Asked and answered!

He's Gay:

KinnPorsche (2022), Ep. 4: "You wanted me to be shocked to know Kinn's gay?" Kinn looks on, pleased.

TonhonChonlatee, maybe? I have a vague memory of Chonlatee's mom saying he's gay, but I couldn't find it when I went looking.

I'm Bi

Love in the Air (2022), Ep. 1: "Are you gay?" "To be honest, I'm bi."

Only Friends (2023), Ep. 8: "You're bi? Me too."

I Like Men/I Don't Like Women:

There are quite a few examples of characters saying they like men or don't like women rather than using a label to describe their sexuality. Here are a few of my favorites:

Ticket to Heaven (2026), Ep. 3: "I like guys... I like you."

That Summer (2025), Ep. 4: "Why are you brave enough to say you like men?" "Because it's not a big deal." One of the strengths of That Summer is that it shows four gay men each with different relationships to sexuality and identity and each navigating very different obstacles in their paths to love and/or self-acceptance.

He's Coming to Me (2019), Ep. 6: "That's when I knew I'm not into girls." Sorry I kissed the girl you have a crush on. Also I'm in love with a man who just so happens to be a ghost.

Perfect 10 Liners (2025), Ep. 18: "It's normal for men to date, right? I'm normal, right?" One of the more interesting coming out scenes in Thai BL, because we've spent the first 17 episodes of this series believing that we were in the homophobia-free BL bubble, and now we realize that Wine hearing the stories of all of these happy same-sex couples has been part of his trajectory towards self-acceptance.

Never Let Me Go (2022), Ep. 5: "Mom, are you ok with the fact that I like men?" "Neung, you can like whatever or whoever you want. This is your life. What I expect is to see you lead a happy life, and live the life you choose."

The Heart Killers (2024), Ep. 5: "But do you know what he did? He tried to set me up with another mechanic at the garage."

Bad Buddy (2021), Ep. 9: "I like them all."

Like Ying & Yang (Part 2/?)

Revenged Love

Love In The Big City

Senpai, This Cam't Be Love

Dead Friend Forever

My School President

To Be Continued

TharnType

Boys Lockdown

Your Sky

Something In My Room

Day 9: Most Visually Pleasing Love Scene

(I took into account the love scenes and the heavy making out sessions)

The Sign the pink one

TharnType the ice cube one (please don't hate me 🥺)

every MaxTul scene, I mean.. come on, it's them

every scene of Kinn and Porsche

Siew Sum Noi - IG and Ruk scene

Be Loved in House: I Do

Love Class 2 this scene

gif by @nanihirunkits

Twins both scenes, I especially like this one

Ghost Host, Ghost House this scene

every DaouOffroad scene in Century of Love and Love in Translation

cold blue:

red hot:

Destiny Seeker

The Eighth Sense so beautiful

Bake Me Please both their scenes

4 Minutes all scenes, it's the same as with KP

It's a new month! So I'm back with another poll. I actually had already made another poll but this one came to me whilst I was making the first one so I decided to do this one instead.

Anyways, I know we all love a good lift scene in general, but we're talking specifically about the horny ones. You know where he lifts the other he and carries him somewhere else so they can get it in? The ones where you can feel all the desire and desperation to get the going.

As always if you do not see your faves here I either forgot about it or haven't actually seen that series...or it didn't quite fit the theme I had in mind.

Tagged by: @miss0atae @hughungrybear @abstractelysium @thisonelikesaliens @befuddledcinnamonroll @my-rose-tinted-glasses and @troubled-mind

Seriously, thank you all SO much. I am emerging from the cave and work-induced coma that was January, and this is SUCH a delightful way to do it! I greatly enjoyed reading everyone's stories and journeys. It's wild how varied they are while still feeling familiar.

Gonna be honest...I was enjoying reading everyone's journeys so much, that I went ahead and read the posts by @embersinthefirelight @watchthisqqq @maybe-boys-do-love @gotmehookedonthekpop and @alecdoesntknowhowtoadult too.

It looks like I need to add Yes or No to my watchlist.

Where to begin.....

Apparently by making gifs 😅.

Stage Beauty (2004)

Is the messaging in this film problematic? 100%, yes, very. Would I probably greatly dislike this film if I saw it for the first time today? Also yes. Does it even qualify as queer? Probably not.

But all my brain processed at the time was....it exists. This type of media exists. These types of characters exist.

And at the time, that left a bigger impact on me than I can possibly describe in words. It meant I wanted more.

Princess Jellyfish (2008+)

Like the previous one, is this queer? Coded - maybe? Like many of my favorite crossdressers in media, Kuranosuke is definitely identified as straight. But....it was this show that forced me to admit a lot of things about myself. Thanks to some amazing teenagers in my life, I also learned a lot of fun new words around this time like "pansexual". I consider it a major stepping stone for me personally and for looking for more queer media in all forms.

And....apparently we're making more gifs.

Silhouette of Your Voice (2017)

As someone who is hearing impaired and does not sign, this IP is incredibly precious to me. I thought about skipping it, because it's not like it drew me further into the QL genre. But...it's a huge part of my story. It was a first. The first time I felt my disability was represented in a way that felt accurate to me on a lot of levels.

Together With Me (2017)

We're actually to the prompt at this point 😂. Yeah, I watched the opening sequence of Together With Me and life has never been the same. I was reeled in for whatever else this genre could throw at me. What pulled me into QL? MaxTul. Hook, line and sinker. If I had stuck to the prompt, this post would be 1 show/1 gif long. This is it. The whole answer.

TharnType (2019)

This is my first fully live watch. I have STRONG memories of essentially sneaking around and even lying to coworkers so I could skip a dinner and go watch the newest episode. #icecube scene for the win. I still think it was the right choice to skip dinner. For the record, I was already lurking in the tags of Tumblr by this point even if it was only the tags for shows I was watching.

The Heart Killers (2024/2025)

The show that got me to finally stop lurking. Why? Well... @airenyah wrote these epically amazing but long posts about Style that I absolutely HAD to read, but I wanted to read them comfortably on the couch.

So...FINE. I'll make an actual account and download the Tumblr app after count that...6-7 years of lurking in various BL tags and bookmarking blogs in my browser.

Having the app (and an account) meant I did something I had never done before....I answered a poll. And that was fun. Then one night I was tired/not reading carefully and mis-clicked on a poll (in THK tag) about where you were from. I panicked. At my core, I'm a data person....and I had messed up someone's data. So I decided to comment and apologize. And the person was incredibly nice about it.

And it made me wonder...could I? Should I? What would it be like to actually talk about all of these shows I love? My brother encouraged (read: practically forced) me to start the blog, and here we are...a year and 865+ original posts later.