Love in the Time of Cleveland Steamers

Let's say that you, an avowed homosexual, have visions of yourself drifting slowly in a waltz across a balcony in Prague, your lover Hans gripping you tenderly as doves flit above your heads and the ruby light of the setting sun glints in your eyes, locked in passionate gaze. Later that night, Hans beds you by candlelight while you both whisper to each other in unison, "forever," and a champagne cork pops abruptly from betwixt your loins. You'll need a soundtrack for that bulls**t, of course, and we've got just the thing.

Call us bitter, but we simply don't have any words in us to express love beyond "I'd hit it." It is therefore astounding to us that Lee Lessack deftly assembled seventeen swoony-croony ballads for In Good Company, a collection of gay love songs. If you yearn for sultry saxaphones and cry when you hear the song "The Rose," there's simply no better you can do. They're all classic tunes, slow and dreamy, including "Let it Be Me," "Summer Wine," and a number from Wicked, sung by or for men who love men. It's an album that's sure to make you either laugh or cry hysterically, depending on what sort of stuff you're made of.