Be Gay, Do Crime

Contributors:

• Alissa Nutting
• Anna Dorn
• Aurora Mattia
• Emily R. Austin
• Francesca Ekwuyasi
• Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
• Maame Blue
• Marisa (Mac) Crane
• Myriam Gurba
• Myriam Lacroix
• Priya Guns
• Sam Cohen
• SJ Sindu
• Soula Emmanuel
• Temim Fruchter
• Venita Blackburn
• Molly Llewellyn
• Kristel Buckley

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“Chaotic, sexy, and binge-worthy as hell, Be Gay, Do Crime is an EVENT.”—Ruth Madievsky, author of All Night Pharmacy

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.

Overview:

• 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.
• 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—unintentionally, as a means of survival, as protest, as rescue, or to right injustices big and small.

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