Books like Singing from the Well by Reinaldo Arenas

In 1914, a young man falls in love with his best friend fighting in World War I, creating an epic tale of forbidden romance amidst war's horrors.

The shocking memoir by visionary Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas "is a book above all about being free," said The New York Review of Books--sexually, politically, artistically. Arenas recounts a stunning odyssey from his poverty-stricken childhood in rural Cuba and his adolescence as a rebel fighting for Castro, through his suppression as a writer, imprisonment as a homosexual, his flight from Cuba via the Mariel boat lift, and his subsequent life and the events leading to his death in New York. In what The Miami Herald calls his "deathbed ode to eroticism," Arenas breaks through the code of secrecy and silence that protects the privileged in a state where homosexuality is a political crime. Recorded in simple, straightforward prose, this is the true story of the Kafkaesque life and world re-created in the author's acclaimed novels.

Old Rosa is a Cuban short‑story collection that follows a mother and her son as their lives intersect in the midst of a repressive regime, exploring the hardships faced by gay men under Castro’s rule.