Be Gay, Do Crime

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

Llewellyn, Molly (Editor) , Buckley, Kristel (Editor) , Nutting, Alissa (Author) , Dorn, Anna (Author) , Mattia, Aurora (Author) , Austin, Emily R (Author) , Ekwuyasi, Francesca (Author) , Upadhyaya, Kayla Kumari (Author) , Blue, Maame (Author) , Crane (Author) , Gurba, Myriam (Author) , LaCroix, Myriam (Author) , Guns, Priya (Author) , Cohen, Sam (Author) , Sindu, Sj (Author) , Emmanuel, Soula (Author) , Fruchter, Temim (Author) , Blackburn, Venita (Author)