boys' love; BL; male-male romance fiction
A genre of comics, novels, and other media depicting romantic or sexual relationships between male characters, primarily created by and for women. Often abbreviated as BL. Compare with やおい, which is an older term with a more explicit connotation.
wasei-eigo (Japanese-coined English), from boys love
彼女はボーイズラブの漫画をよく読んでいる。
She often reads boys' love manga.
This boys' love novel is very popular.