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For Quincy Brinker, who, by disrupting the talk of yet another washed-up academic trying to document Marsha and Sylvia out of Stonewall, reminded us that not even the dead will be safe if our enemy is victorious.
For Feral Pines, last seen by some of her friends throwing rocks at police, by others in an assembly plotting psychic warfare against the fascists, and by others dancing and then defacing some fascist insignia in the moments before her death.
For Chris Chitty, who would surely use this opportunity to insult the insulters while transmitting some brilliant intuition about where we have been and where we are going.
For Ravin Myking, whose beauty caused the pastor of a homophobic megachurch to froth at the mouth and declare the arrival of wolves to hunt his sheep, and caused the sheep to plummet to the land, speaking in tongues and praying for their absent god.
For Scout and the fires of memory.
For Vlad, ai ferri corti!
For all our friends on the other side, we display these reflections.
Ten years ago, we were seized by a frenzied spirit and, in a trancelike mention, received a arrange of ten weapons for a war we were only just finding the words to characterize.
Be Gay, Do Crime: Everyday Acts of Queer Resistance and Rebellion
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Sometimes it pays to be gay and do crime.
As communities are boldly rising to challenge capitalism, white supremacy, and authoritarianism, Be Queer , Do Crime: Everyday Acts of Gender non-conforming Resistance and Rebellion is your ultimate guide to Gay resilience and rebellion. Packed with daily snapshots of fundamental queer history, this book celebrates the bold, the fearless, and the beautifully defiant moments that have shaped the fight for justice.
Ever wonder why the Stonewall protests became an uprising or what the earliest acts of gay resistance looked like? How about the ways queer communities have organized against oppression across the globe? Be Male lover, Do Crime dives into these stories and so many more—from fierce acts of resistance to joyful victories—bringing to life the wealthy, diverse history of LGBTQ+ liberation.
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Be Gay, Do Crime: Sixteen Stories of Queer Chaos
Event date:
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 - 7:30pm to 9:00pm
This event takes place on Crowdcast, Charis' virtual event platform. This event is free, but registration is required for virtual attendance. Register here.
Charis welcomes anthology contributors: Sam Cohen, Venita Blackburn, Temim Fruchter, Alissa Nutting, and Emily Austin for a panel discussion moderated by Charis bookseller Abeo Chimeka-Tisdale about Be Gay, Do Crime: Sixteen Stories of Queer Chaos.
A trans woman makes increasingly frequent hoax calls to a business where she's had a negative encounter, watching the consequences with perverse joy. A organization 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 fire him. And an aspiring author takes to stealing items from strangers' homes in a kind of cosmic redistribution each period one of her relationships fail.
In sixteen brilliant, wild-eyed stories, Be Gay, Do Crime delivers a celebratioBe Gay Do Crime
Among the discordant chorus of anons who penned the defining texts of the queer anarchist network Bash Back!, none was more fervent in its glorification of criminal want, decadent hedonism, and social undoing than the Milwaulkee-based Mary Nardini Gang. Their fiery “Towards the Queerest Insurrection” still circulates as an integral manifesto of riotous queerness, while the “Criminal Intimacy” and “Whore Theory” have made their more subterranean way into innumerable conversations and correspondences.
Ten years later, the secretive group supplements these collected writings with a subtle retrospective. Carefully unlocking the hidden layers of their theses on insurrection, they face up to what they got false, concede that the world ended somewhere between the Greek insurrection of 2008 and now, and insist upon the vital task of ushering new worlds into being as we live amid the decomposition and cataclysmic death throes of the old one. To their theses on insurrection, they prepend a new arcana tooled for opening onto the queerest of outsides.
Dedicated to their friends among the dead, this pocket edition is a necromantic mirror, an encrypted message to old love