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For Quincy Brinker, who, by disrupting the talk of yet another washed-up academic trying to write Marsha and Sylvia out of Stonewall, reminded us that not even the expired 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 insight 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 fall to the ground, 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 state, received a set of ten weapons for a war we were only just discovery the words to explain.
The phrase “Be homosexual, do crime(s)” is a hairpin initiate for the conservative outrage machine, as a non-binary statute professor found out after using it in a TikTok video that unwittingly introduced the words to a disapproving new audience.
But in queer communities, the heavilymemed and relentlesslymerchandised slogan is both a rallying howl and a winking inside joke—or an eye-roll-inducing cliché, depending who you ask—with a short but rich history rooted in anarchism and the fight for queer liberation. (Both the singular “Be gay, do crime,” and plural, “Be gay, do crimes,” are used, though the singular is in much more regular use.)
Last plummet, criminal law professor Florence Ashley made a short TikTok saying, “As a law professor who teaches criminal regulation, I felt compelled to inform you to be lgbtq+, do crimes.” The video was derisively reposted by rage-farming social media outlet Libs of TikTok and culture warrior psychologist Jordan Peterson, and inspired a column in right-wing media outlet Western Standard titled “Is this any way for a rule professor to talk?” The columnist dug up a number of comments from Ashley’s website and social media accounts, heavily implying that the an
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Be gay, do crime is a accepted 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 tell "BE GAY Accomplish CRIME!". The slogan has spread into becoming commonly lay on signs at Pride parades and LGBT-related protests, as well as existence frequently used in graffiti.
Meaning
"Be homosexual, do crime" is meant to be anti-capitalist and anti-authority in nature. The phrase is meant to imply some crime and incivility may be necessary to earn equivalent rights considering the fact that organism gay was illegal in the Merged 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 withstand against the "polished, corporate narrative of Pride".[1][2]
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About
Be Gay Do Crime is a catchphrase and protest slogan used by activists, members and allies of the LGBTQIA+ community, promoting freedom from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or being non-cisgender.
Origin
While the phrase existed prior to its appearance online, the earliest known reference was posted by Instagram user @absentobject on September 15th, 2016. The post features the words "Be Gay. Do Crime." spraypainted onto a wall in Marseille, France (shown below).
Spread
Three days later, the Tumblr account queergraffiti featured the photograph, which received more than 58,000 notes in three years.
On January 13th, 2018, Twitter user @AliceAvizandum tweeted the image along with a piece of stencil graffiti quoting Mark Fisher. They captioned the image "two kinds of leftists." The tweet received more than 1,900 likes and 630 retweets in a year and a half (shown below, left).
Several months later, on June 2nd, Twitter user @ioascarium tweeted an adaptation of a Thomas Nast political cartoon, replacing the sign a skeleton is holding with the phrase. The tweet received more than 13,000 likes and 6,400 retweets in about one year (sh