Be Gay, Do Crime: Sixteen Stories of Queer Chaos

Venita Blackburn, Emily R. Austin, Anna Dorn, Temim Fruchter, Marisa Crane, Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, Myriam Lacroix, Maame Blue, Francesca Ekwuyasi, Alissa Nutting, Myriam Gurba, Priya Guns, S.J. Sindu, Aurora Mattia, Soula Emmanuel, Sam Cohen


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3.50 · 6 ratings · 203 pages · Published: 03 Jun 2025

Be Gay, Do Crime: Sixteen Stories of Queer Chaos by Venita Blackburn, Emily R. Austin, Anna Dorn, Temim Fruchter, Marisa Crane, Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, Myriam Lacroix, Maame Blue, Francesca Ekwuyasi, Alissa Nutting, Myriam Gurba, Priya Guns, S.J. Sindu, Aurora Mattia, Soula Emmanuel, Sam Cohen
A follow-up to their runaway success Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women, editors Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley return with Be Gay, Do Crime, a celebration of queer chaos from an all-queer author lineup featuring Myriam Gurba, Emily Austin, Alissa Nutting, and Francesca Ekwuyasi

A trans woman makes increasingly frequent hoax calls to a business where she's had a negative experience, watching the consequences with perverse joy. A group of aging queers turns to bank robbery to stop the sale of their bungalow complex to a development company. As the president prepares to give a speech, two women lurk among the journalists, ready to shoot him. And an aspiring author takes to stealing items from strangers’ homes in a kind of cosmic redistribution each time one of her relationships fail.

In sixteen brilliant, wild-eyed stories, Be Gay, Do Crime delivers a celebration and reckoning of why queer people turn to crime– be it unintentionally, as a means of survival, as protest, as rescue, or to right injustices big and small.

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