The future of New Zealand’s parliament looks bright. In a Wednesday speech, newly elected lawmaker Ricardo Menéndez March addressed his colleagues for the first time by quoting a favorite phrase of his: “Be gay, do crime.”
“In our queer community there is a saying that I love,” he said in his maiden address to the New Zealand House of Representatives. “It goes, ‘Be gay, do crime.’” He went on to explain that to him, the aphorism “means to be transgressive, to acknowledge that decision makers have created rules that criminalize our survival and our existence.”