LGBTQ+ Book Club Reads: Be Gay, Do Crime: Sixteen Stories of Queer Chaos

The LGBTQ+ Book Club is a group for LGBTQ+ folks and allies to read queer-themed books and books by queer authors! We aim to have diverse thought-provoking discussions about queer identity, history, and topical issues. All are welcome to join!
The LGBTQ+ Book Club meets on Zoom on the 4th Saturday of every month, 10:00 -11:30 AM EST.
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About our June book:
Be Gay, Do Crime: Sixteen Stories of Queer Chaos edited by Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley
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-unintentionally, as a means of survival, as protest, as rescue, or to right injustices big and small.
2026 Book Club Picks:
JANUARY – Spent by Alison Bechdel
FEBRUARY – These Heathens by Mia McKenzie
MARCH – The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
APRIL – Open Throat: A Novel by Henry Hoke
MAY – How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom by Johanna Hedva
JUNE – Be Gay, Do Crime: Sixteen Stories of Queer Chaos edited by Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley
JULY – Queer Villains of Myth and Legend: A Revelry of Queer Rogues and Outlaws through the Ages by Dan Jones
AUGUST - I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself: A Novel by Mac Crane
SEPTEMBER – Uncanny Valley Girls: Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love by Zefyr Lisowski