book with a gay main character that isn’t romance

hi yall,

i really like like coming of age stories etc where the two main best friends are the core of the story but the plot of the series is something totally Else

no one make fun of me but my best example is naruto ,,,,, i know it’s cringe but like a story like that where the main characters friendship is the core of the show without it being the Plot of the show , that’s what i want but i want it to actually end with romance

i just recently rewatched captain america , and then yesterday finished stranger things and got annoyed that im still grasping at straws for an actually gay story that actually reflects part of me

no i dont wanna watch or read heated rivalry , i dont like romance books , no i dont wanna read fantasy where being gay is taken out of the context of our society entirely , no i dont want to watch a sitcom or read a book where the main character is gay and ends up with some random

i want a book where two people (or more) are at the heart of a story that isnt about their romance , you know how straight people have in abundance , i want a story that ends with them getting together finally after chapters and chapters or even multiple books of them dealing with the main plot together

does this even exist , im so tired of combing through gay media and finding romance books movies tv , tragic stories , or just smut

ive come to accept that outside of avatar the legend of korra , and our flag means death, this does not exist anywhere on screen in the way im looking for but maybe a book has it better ?