Bonus if it's an older book or setting (<1950), a bildungsroman, something with POC characters or set in the US. Or all of these things.
Kinda like Black Boy by Richard Wright but… queer?
I've read Dorian Gray and Demian, neither of them are the vibe I'm looking for though.
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Nella Larsen’s *Passing*
The Spear Cuts Through Water – Simon Jimenez
Go Tell It on the Mountain, by James Baldwin
A Separate Peace by John Knowles — a classic coming-of-age book from 1959 starring two New Hampshire school boys. It happened to be my 9th grade English teacher’s favorite book, and my class had her basically in tears because we were all insisting the two stars of the book were obviously in love.
Go all the way back to the original homoerotic relationship, Enkidu and Gilgamesh (from *Gilgamesh*) – (c. 2100–1200 BCE)
Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zi. It is often labelled as queer, but the nature of the narrator’s feelings is only implicitly mentioned.
Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes (1930).