I'm a little confused about how they came to these conclusions, haha. Most yaoi I've seen, like the Japanese stuff, is even more abusive than the average heterosexual relationship. I can think of a handful of titles that vividly feature rape right off the top of my head. That was the year Dramatical Murder was popular and that game is just gay rape porn. I read/watched a lot of yaoi when I was young because I thought that yuri was exclusively pornographic, and I wanted to see same sex relationships even if they weren't my sex. I had to stop reading/watching multiple series because of the blatant coercion/rape they showed.

I was talking mostly about the media there, rather than yaoi. Stuff like Glee, Modern Family, Destiel, Remus / Sirius, Drarry, Stiles / Derek etc. It was a time that networks tried their best to show optimism, and also because they did not want to draw criticism due to 'stereotyping' gay people. I was more involved with shipping, as I was like #1 Stucky shipper. I miss 2015 - 2016 as the glory days of gay activism, with marriage equality and relatively small number of gendie talk. I remember the hashtag #givecaptainamericaaboyfriend and even though i had the two brain cells to realise it was never going to happen, i cherish the memory of millions of tweets by all the gay people across the world. Sometimes i do wish we could turn back time.

So much hope i have lost on gay rights, but the battle goes on.