Boys Love Media in Thailand Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture, Thomas Baudinette Amy Chu and the recipient of a

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Boys Love Media in Thailand Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture, Thomas Baudinette Amy Chu and the recipient of aOver the past several years, the Thai popular culture landscape has radically transformed due to the emergence of Boys Love (BL) soap operas which celebrate the love between handsome young men. Boys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture is the first book length study of this increasingly significant transnational pop culture phenomenon. Drawing upon six years of ethnographic research, the book reveals