Queer Valentines: Powerful, Poignant, or Painful?

Incident in Room 214

Or Should I Say He Once Dreamt Me

“Two Fourteen” — collage by AleXander Hirka

The warmth of the Bahamas sun wrapped itself sensually around my shoulders. So nice to get away from the New York City chill in the middle of February.

All the cruise ship staff who were working poolside—men and women—sauntered in colorful…