"No single image can account for the island’s multiplicity of meanings, but one of Leifheit’s photographs speaks concisely to its enduring place in the queer consciousness. In “Wave (Hudson and MeHow),” two figures sit on the beach in the surf. One has his head in the other’s lap, while the second man holds the reclining one by the shoulder. Like the “two boys together clinging” on the “sea-beach dancing,” from Walt Whitman’s utopian vision of America’s homosexual future, the scene offers a simple expression of intimacy and solidarity in a place that remains a particular kind of refuge."