Be Gay, Do Crime

Alissa Nutting, Anna Dorn, Aurora Mattia, Emily R. Austin, Francesca Ekwuyasi, Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, Maame Blue, Marisa (Mac) Crane

Be Gay, Do Crime
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Country
United States
Published
10 September 2025
Pages
203
ISBN
9781938603310

Be Gay, Do Crime

Alissa Nutting, Anna Dorn, Aurora Mattia, Emily R. Austin, Francesca Ekwuyasi, Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, Maame Blue, Marisa (Mac) Crane

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

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