What was your first yaoi/yuri? How it impacted you?

If i'm not mistaken, my fist yaoi was the anime adaptation of Junjou Romantica. Nowadays I don't think it's that good lol but I still hold it close to my heart. For a queer otaku teen in the 2010's, discovering it was ground breaking.IRL classmates would pester me asking "do you like dick or pussy?" and "are you gay or normal?". It was a nightmare. I didn't understand my it was such a big deal and why I needed to even choose.

While I did enjoy watching shoujo, I just couldn't see myself in them. But watching a love story between two guys changed everything. It was weird at first, I felt as if I was watching something imoral. But on the other hand, it was comforting. For the first time I really wanted to live a love story i was watching.

As for yuri, I think my first (and only for a long time) was Renai Idenshi XX. I didn't get into yuri at all but I looooved this manga. Recently reread it and to me its pretty obvious why it was the only yuri I liked at the time. In this manga all men died and the government created the Eden project, where some women would be assigned Adams and live as men. The main couple is between two adams who fall in love, even tho it's prohibited. It was probably the first time I thought "damn, it DOES suck to be forced into a gender at birth" lol

So basically yaoi and yuri where CRUCIAL for me to start exploring gender and sexuality.

(Idk I just want to talk about anything other than the lists vanishing. I'm also sad but all we can to now is wait, hope for the best and enjoy it in the meantime!)