OMG I RELATE WHOLEHEARTEDLY TO THIS MANGA ON EVERY LEVEL!!!! T^T
I'M THE ONLY GIRL IN MY NERDY GIRL FRIEND GROUP THAT LIKES YURI!!! they mainly like yaoi and regular hetero ships.... i fake liking yaoi too when i'm around them just to feel included :(
I don't have anyone in real life i can passionately be open about my love for yuri with... sigh... maybe someday!
I think a looooot of girls talk about Yuri online only... Who knows, maybe your whole group is pretending too hehe.
There's just too much to risk and "I only like it as a genre" won't help most of the times... So yeah, is hard.
Maybe we need a secret codeword or wear a specific item to identify our kind like "cough*youchika*cough" and wait to see if there's any reaction.
I'm closeted IRL but I'm practically a worshiper of the yuri goddess online... My friend group has girls that fangirl over yaoi a lot as well, but one of them isn't very good at hiding the fact that she has a girlfriend. And I'd like a secret item to identify yuri lovers as well, but that would get discovered eventually, unfortunately.