Be Gay, Do Crime

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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.

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

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781938603310
Published: June 2025

Number of pages: 203
Width: not specified
Height: not specified
Depth: not specified

Publisher: Dzanc Books