Two Boys Kissing

I read this for Banned Books Week and once again it's just like, ludicrous to challenge this for ~explicit content~ like this is so PG-13. Jesus Christ.

Anyway, it's gorgeous on a sentence-level and I personally really liked the chorus of ghostly queer men who died of AIDS in the 80s. It is interesting to have the kind of sweeping monolith of men (though throughout it they point out dissents among them, that they don't all necessarily have the same reactions etc. but also, they kind of do?) but despite them and a variety of other POV characters, it is mostly a pretty middle-class white gay male (not bi/pan/etc) scene. (altho I was sort of pleasantly surprised by the inclusion of a trans character being affirmed in a gay relationship.)

basically I think
-it's a beautiful book that might appeal more to adult readers and/or pretentious teens
-it's dumb to ban it
-but also by this point in time there are more recent books that are more inclusive and/or more relevant to more of today's queer teens.