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  • Jun 26, 2026, 7:13 PM

    This image appeared in a book collecting the works of the Mary Nardini Gang in 2019. It became a popular meme. In fact, it repurposes the same Thomas Nast cartoon as a flyer the anarchist group Up Against the Wall Motherfucker made in the 1960s.

    This connection gives us a glimpse of a subterranean relationship between queer subversion and criminal anarchism that spans decades.

    We explore this in our history of anarchist participation in the Stonewall Uprising and its aftermath:

    crimethinc.com/StonewallRiots

    A Thomas Nast cartoon showing a skeleton brandishing a torch and a banner that has been revised to read "Be Gay Do Crime"
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