I just thought I give it a try cause I was also open-minded about love. I also read most of the shoujo and yah, thought I give yaoi a try. Though it didn't work out well at first. Then, I was really bored so I searched for another yaoi manga. Castle Mango was basically what made me love yaoi. It has more piercing pain in the stomach than shoujo. I started reading more and more. I still continue to read a variety of genres though. ╮(￣▽￣)╭
My first exposure to boy's love was most likely God save our King on Animax. Even though I was really young at that time, I really though that Yuri and Wolfram getting engaged and married was the cutest thing. I had never thought that it was weird at all. I didn't recognize that it was yaoi after a few years later again. I stumbled upon gender bender manga, and then kinda transitioned into yaoi after that.
my sis was basically like "read this gay shit you will like it" and I was like " shit you right".
ME THOUGH
I watched Haikyuu and I was really shipping Hinata and Kageyama. I started reading Kagehina fanfics, but then I ran out ... then I came across doujins ... which led me to full-on yaoi.
Mood.
I was wondering how other people got into yaoi or BL.
I started watching/reading yaoi when I was in high school. I always loved watching anime because my dad likes anime. I guess he passed it on to me haha. When I was in hs, I was going through this stage of not watching anything at all. I wanted to get back into it, so I asked a friend what a good anime to watch was and they recommended Love Stage. They told me it was BL and at that time I wasn't aware what it was. I'm open-minded so I didn't really care that it was guy x guy. I ended up really liking it more than shoujo or anything else. Ever since then, I've became a full on fujoshi.