 The genre currently known as boys' love, BL, or "yaoi" derives from two sources.Female authors writing for "shōjo" (girl's) manga magazines in the early 1970s published stories featuring platonic relationships between young boys, which were known as or .In the late 1970s going into the 1980s, women and girls in the "dōjinshi" (fan fiction) markets of Japan started to produce sexualized parodies of popular "shōnen" (boy's) manga and anime stories in which the male characters were recast as gay lovers.