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Be Gay Do Crime

Be Gay Do Crime: Sixteen Stories of Queer Chaos by Molly Llewellyn (editor), Kristel Buckley (editor)

May 7, 2026 by fiordeligi Leave a Comment

Once again, I’m a sucker for a good title, and Be Gay Do Crime got me immediately. It’s a short story collection edited by Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley, and I went in assuming that it’d be a series of riots. The name evokes the proud history of queer militancy to me — the anti-normative ethos of “not gay as in happy but queer as in fuck you.” That’s mostly not it. Across the 16 stories collected here, there are many flavors of queerness (largely […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: collection of short stories, feminist fiction, genderqueer, Molly Llewellyn (editor), Kristel Buckley (editor), queer authors, queer fiction

fiordeligi's CBR18 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: collection of short stories, feminist fiction, genderqueer, Molly Llewellyn (editor), Kristel Buckley (editor), queer authors, queer fiction ·
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