2009dec15. [Girls Who Love Boys Who Love Boys: Inside the Midwest’s first celebration of all things yaoi — where the screaming never stopshttp://www.riverfronttimes.com/2009-12-09/news/girls-who-love-boys-who-love-boys-inside-midwest-first-celebration-yaoi-screaming-never-stops/1]. Girls who love boys who love boys who are countries dress up as boys/countries for panels.
A panel for Hetalia: Axis Powers is almost entirely occupied by girls in quasi-military uniforms. Hetalia tells the story of twentieth-century world politics with each country represented by a pretty boy. The panelists make a few half-hearted attempts to introduce themselves to the uninitiated (“I’m America, and I’m Russia’s bitch because we’re in debt”), but they can’t resist acting out their roles. Spain and China show up late and get glomped by Italy and Japan. Italy cuddles on Germany’s lap. France gets down on bended knee and proposes marriage to England. Slowly, the non-Hetalia fans file out of the room.
Spain and China? They were glomped.