The War For Cole's Sexual Orientation, by Nicholas Shapiro, (author of
Corpus Christi Carroll) is a thoughtful, but also highly sexual work, centered around a beautiful gay teenager, named Cole, who becomes the center of a culture war. Here's the description from Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/War-Coles-Sexual-Orientation-ebook/dp/B005V7OZSU/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1320970931&sr=1-1
BOY
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syrup of sepia, sweet brown tint of treacle
or malt, and one scoop of coffee fudge please
shaken and not stirred...
Ssshhh...he has risen! – look!
- out of the long warm sluice of sleep
leaning in a doorway of brown shadow
his face is floating to the surface
from the long brown dream...
like a landscape spied beneath me from the sky
when the sinking sun has ploughed
deep hanks and hollows from the sandy hills
the pits and ripples and the shades
of flesh are umber and ochre and sepia brown
like the tints of a von Gloeden photo...
as if he had fluttered from an album
the forgotten record of a dream
Did Lazar stand thus dreaming at the tomb?
The time that I
Wondered at the beauty of an unknown boy...
I dream, O risen one,
of how I would anoint you with my tongue.