Mila Kim:
Sign me up, fam! I didn't know about the term Yuri being innapropiate to use overseas oops. The more you know! Guess it goes same way for Yaoi term or so? That's why BL/GL are more used now. Makes sense. I feel so uncultured for not knowing this. I'll look at the lists on the main page but does anyone know if Citrus manga had a live action adaptation? Think it has an anime but not sure about it....
Welcome, welcome!
Things get complicated with terminology, especially terminology from other cultures and/or with problematic/controversial pasts. You often wind up with a lot of crossed wires and different people claiming/believing different things. The variability of factual and cultural connotation and awareness makes for a very complicated situation.
Im sure the BL Drama Lovers Club can give more info about why “BL” is used more nowadays, but suffice it to say that that is arguably even more complex and divisive than the GL/Yuri debate.
You can still use “Yuri,” especially as more awareness is made about “shoujo-ai” not meaning at all what people try to say it means, but you’ll always wind up with someone or another trying to correct you. Also, the benefit of “BL” and “GL” is that they cover more queer-life stories than “Yuri,” “Yaoi,” and “shonen-ai” (which are considered to be largely written by straight individuals of the opposite sex to the characters, for straight individuals of the opposite sex to the characters).
Ah yes, Citrus. Perhaps one of the most internationally well-known yuri mangas (at least in my experience). No live action that im aware of. But there is an anime, and you can watch it on Crunchyroll and Funimation.