LINE TV alone currently stockpiles 33-and counting-Thai Boys Love series on its platform, making it the biggest producer of the subgenre in Thailand. It’s gone mainstream,” says Kanop Supamanop, LINE’s VP for content business.
From a five percent audience share in 2019, the first quarter of 2020 alone saw the number peaked at 34 percent.
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LINE TV, the free streaming platform that has been broadcasting Boys Love series such as Make it Right and Sotus since 2016 says that the coronavirus lockdown earned the platform the biggest increase in viewership in history. Well, it turned out to be a big hit and Chris-Singto are still around today even if it’s been about four or five years.” “Back then, it was controversial for a major entertainment company to pair up two guys.
We didn’t know how would it go,” says the young exec. After gaining positive feedback, the entertainment powerhouse decided to go all the way. Noppanat Chaiwimol, a director and producer for GMMTV (pictured above), tells us that the company first chose a less obvious course by dropping in Boys Love characters into heterosexual series (Tay- New from Kiss and Pik-Low from Senior Secret Love, for example). GMMTV Noppanat Chaiwimol Back then, it was controversial for a major entertainment company to pair up two guys Since then, other players in the market jumped in, including GMMTV, a subsidiary of Thailand’s largest entertainment conglomerate, GMM Grammy, and producer of 2gether: The Series. It was probably the first time in Thai entertainment history that two boys with homosexual inclinations were featured in the lead. Narratives revolving around two boys in a romantic relationship were pretty much secondary subplots before the 2014 series Love Sick, which was a significant turning point for the subgenre. The presence of Boys Love series, a unique drama genre that depicts homoerotic relationships between male characters, has increased significantly in recent years. 2gether: The Series became the global phenomenon no one expected. The series was so popular that its lead actors, fresh-faced Vachirawit “Bright” Cheva-aree and Metawin “Win” Opas-iamkajorn, garnered more than a million Instagram followers from all over the world in just a few weeks. Throughout the 13 weeks of its airing, the #2gethertheSeries hashtag topped global trends on Twitter-the most favored social media of Boys Love fans-and triggered millions of virtual conversations about the series in various languages, from Thai to Chinese to English. But for millions of Boys Love (“Y” in Thai) fans around Asia, it was one night to fix their eyes on the screen to watch the latest episode of 2gether: The Series, unarguably Thailand’s most popular Boys Love drama. BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! is pushing back against this and attempting to make it mainstream and showcasing queer and gay photography in the context of fine art photography."Īnd as if you needed even more incentive to add this Collectors Edition to your library, $1 of every sale will go to benefit the LGBTQ+ community and the fight against HIV.īOYS! BOYS! BOYS! the magazine is out now - available from as well as select newsagents and bookstores like Barnes & Nobles and other larger magazine outlets.For many of us, Friday nights during the lockdown meant binge-watching new programs on Netflix. "The simple answer is that queer and gay photography is grossly underrepresented in the fine art world, and even more so in the mainstream media. "You may ask why do we need a platform and magazine for queer and gay photography?" Ghislain Pascal, co-founder and co-owner of The Little Black Gallery, said in a release. Over the years the gallery has come to represent more than 60 photographers globally putting on exhibitions and producing two sold out books. The premier Collectors Edition Volume 1 is now available for purchase and features 10 photographers from 10 different countries capturing some of the best boys their native lands have to offer. After building a fanbase for the sumptuous queer and gay photography books and online presence they've built under the BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! brand, the gallery is now producing a bi-annual print magazine. If you need more queer photography in your life, the U.K.'s The Little Black Gallery has something new for you.