"Bara" is short for "Barazoku", an influential Japanese gay magazine which shut down publication in late 2004. Western, gay male anime & manga fans then appropriated the word to contrast with yaoi. Both are homoerotic anime-style art; the difference is while yaoi is gay-male art produced by women for the consumption of women, bara is created by men, for men. This is a safe space for gay/bi/pan Men that consume BL content
"Bara" is short for "Barazoku", an influential Japanese gay magazine which shut down publication in late 2004. Western, gay male anime & manga fans then appropriated the word to contrast with yaoi. Both are homoerotic anime-style art; the difference is while yaoi is gay-male art produced by women for the consumption of women, bara is created by men, for men. This is a safe space for gay/bi/pan Men that consume BL content