Pearl boy was my first yaoi I believe but before that I read quite a lot of gay romance novels and BL. I used to be openly homophobic, gay romance pretty much ended that. I guess it also played a small role in exploring my gender identity but it wasn't huge. (I was going to say Killing Stalking was my first yaoi but some people don't consider it to...... reply
did learn foreign languages
did stay up too late reading yaoi
