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Be gay do crime meaning

Tuck speaks with printmaker, comic-doer, and A.B.O. cofounder Io (they/them), who also started the whole “be gay do crime” thing. 

Topics include:

  • The origins of “Be Queer , Do Crime”
  • What we mean when we say do crime!
  • Train-hopping to outrun your gender feelings
  • A.B.O. Comix and trans prisoner support
  • Plus: gender nihilism, anarchist D&D, bike helmet phrenology, 3 futures of gender, and a debate over the transness of Dune. 

This Week in Gender: Amy Schneider makes more Jeopardy history; Lithuania doesn’t go far enough; April Ashley passed away; Quidditch begins to rename itself; And Just Like That fully does a meme. 

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Be Gay Do Crime

Authors

  • Isobella Austin Swinburne University of Technology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/imaginingtheimpossible.132131

Keywords:

queer theory, dystopia, hierarchy, community, queer time

Abstract

This essay deals with lgbtq+ theory and how it applies to the videogame Cloudpunk and the comic series Motor Affection . Both of these texts exploit cyberpunk settings to tell stories about finding hope in people. Each text features protagonists trying to navigate worlds where legal success is highly competitive and practically impossible. They must therefore turn to community building, joint aid, and criminal activity to find happiness. This analysis views the texts through the lens of queer time and gay space making practices as outlined by J Jack Halberstam and Jose Esteban Muñoz. Central to this article’s exploration of these texts is the characters inability and/or refusal to fit neatly into the worlds they inhabit, and how they must therefore find success outside of approved channels. Success i

Social:Be gay, do crime

Be same-sex attracted, do crime is a popular LGBT slogan. The exact origins of the phrase are unknown, but it has been used since at least 2011. The slogan was primarily popularized by an internet meme on Twitter of an 1800s political cartoon originally created by Thomas Nast of a skeleton holding a torch and scroll, with the scroll edited to say "BE GAY DO CRIME!". The slogan has spread into becoming commonly put on signs at Pride parades and LGBT-related protests, as well as being frequently used in graffiti.

Meaning

"Be gay, do crime" is meant to be anti-capitalist and anti-authority in character. The phrase is meant to imply some crime and incivility may be necessary to earn matching rights considering the evidence that being gay was illegal in the Combined States and is still illegal in various other countries, along with the fact that the Stonewall uprising was a riot and was crucial in advancements for LGBT rights. Mark Bieschke, a curator at the GLBT History Museum, claimed that the slogan is meant to stand against the "polished, corporate narrative of Pride".[1][2]

References

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For Quincy Brinker, who, by disrupting the talk of yet another washed-up academic trying to pen 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 awareness 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 drop to the earth, 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 exhibit these reflections.

Ten years ago, we were seized by a frenzied spirit and, in a trancelike express, received a position of ten weapons for a war we were only just finding the words to detail.