Moto Hagio's The Heart of Thomas

It's been while since I read or posted about any BL comics.
Recently I had a chance to read Moto Hagio's The Heart of Thomas.
It was set in a boys-only boarding school in Germany, sometime in the 20's century.
I did not recall her name but I had a book of her, They Were 11, an award-winning SF comics.
And she also wrote famous/notorious "Cruel Gods Reign" which I have not even tried but am familiar with the tile of.
The story and the artwork of The Heart of Thomas were charming.
Though I cannot found it realistic that nobody in the school worries about sexual orientation at all. Everybody takes it as it is!! Isn't it a little bit ideal? Of course classmates tease when one falls for another male student. But that's not because of homosexuality but because that's how children react when they are not accustomed to the feeling of loving someone outside family.
This comic was written in 1972!!! OMG. Even that early some readers embraced BL comics. Wow.

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