Be gay do crimes

Nitehawk Cinema - Prospect Park

BE Lgbtq+, DO CRIME and co-curator Shayna Maci Warner go back for another helping of cinematic queer criminals and baddies.

This time around, we shift our focus to some of our favorite villains in the homosexual cinema canon. Side-stepping the problematic queer villains (for the most part), we examine the delicious, devious, and dangerous characters that we hate to affectionate , and love to hate.

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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 gone 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 offer 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 result the words to outline .

Be Gay, Do Crime: Everyday Acts of Queer Resistance and Rebellion

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Sometimes it pays to be gay and do crime.

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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 queer theory and how it applies to the videogame Cloudpunk and the comic series Motor Crush. Both of these texts use 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, mutual aid, and criminal activity to find happiness. This analysis views the texts through the lens of queer time and queer 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 accepted channels. Triumph i