Be Gay Do Crime Sixteen Stories of Queer Chaos

<p><b>“Chaotic, sexy, and binge-worthy as hell, <i>Be Gay, Do Crime</i> is an EVENT.”—Ruth Madievsky, author of <i>All Night Pharmacy</i></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b>A follow-up to their runaway success <i>Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women</i>, 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</b></p><br>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.<br><br>In sixteen brilliant, wild-eyed stories, <i>Be Gay, Do Crime</i> 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.<br>