Llewellyn, Molly - Be Gay Do Crime

Be Gay Do Crime: Sixteen Stories of Queer Chaos

Author: Molly Llewellyn

Genre: Fantasy, Adult, Short Stories, Anthology

Pages: 261

Publisher: Dzanc Books

Release Date: June 3, 2025

Format: Paperback

Size (in cm): 21.3 (height) x 13.9 (width) x 2 (depth)

ISBN: 9781938603310

Synopsis:

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

LGBT Themes:

• Queer Fiction

Relevant Tags:

Short Stories, Queer, LGBT, Fiction, Anthologies, Contemporary, Adult, Gay, Lesbian, Achillean, Sapphic, Trans, Gender, Transgender, Queer Lit