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Chinese Police Detain Dozens of Writers Over Gay Erotic Online Novels

The genre known as Boys’ Love, stories written mostly by and for straight women, has been in the authorities’ sights for years.

© Siyi Zhao/The New York Times

A Beijing store selling merchandise based on Boys’ Love graphic novels. Boys’ Love fiction, about romance between men, has had a fervent niche following in China since the 1990s.
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