Yash and Ryo Lost in the Milky Way — Barbara G. Tarn

Yash is asexual and traumatized, Ryo is gay and smitten.

Yash runs away from his home planet, a matriarchal world where men have few rights, to escape abuse.

A short-lived rush through the Milky Way with Ryo of Xi-kong, a mob-boss son who is not very loved on his patriarchal planet.

Getting away from the Star Nations might be the only way out â€" or certain death at an early age...

Part one is included in Star Minds Interregnum.

This is the story the Star Nations never get to know.