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Contents:

• JAM BOND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER REVEAL NO TIME TO DIE MA ME TEAR UP
• DANIEL CRAIG: JAM BOND STAR REVEALS WHY HE GO TO GAY BARS
• JAM BOND’S GAY HT WAS ALMOST CUT OM SKYFALL, SAYS PRODUCER
• 'Q-FORCE': SEAN HAY ON BRGG 'GAY JAM BOND' TO NETFLIX WH ANIMATED SPY EDY
• CRAIG WANTS GAY BOND SCENE
• 'JAM BOND' PRODUCER REVEALS THAT THE SECRET AGENT’S GAY EXPERIENCE WAS ALMOST CUT FROM 'SKYFALL'
• 'NO TIME TO DIE' ACTOR BEN WHISHAW WANTS A GAY JAM BOND: 'THAT WOULD BE REAL PROGRS'
• 'Q-FORCE': SEAN HAY ON BRGG 'GAY JAM BOND' TO NETFLIX WH ANIMATED SPY EDY
• 'NO TIME TO DIE' HTS Q IS GAY LANDMARK LGBTQ+ SCENE
• DANIEL CRAIG: JAM BOND STAR REVEALS WHY HE GO TO GAY BARS
• DANIEL CRAIG: GAY JAM BOND NEVER GOG TO HAPPEN

JAM BOND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER REVEAL NO TIME TO DIE MA ME TEAR UP

is no doubt one of the most macho movie anchis of all time, but om the moment I saw Golneye as a ltle gay kid at a iend's hoe, I was hooked. But Bond movi also feature badass and fabulo women, tons of drama and some ser emotnal moments -- exactly what a ltle gay kid Craig's turn as Bond has shaken thgs up, serly mornizg the anchise terms of both style and story. No Time to Die is the 25th official Bond movie and Craig's last -- and troduc the anchise's first out gay character a moment that got me One light spoiler ahead.

It's the first time ever a Jam Bond movie that a character has been explicly gay, and 's actually acknowledged out loud, no ls. Nila Dove/MGMThis isn't to say there haven't been implied queer characters or super gay moments before. In Skyfall, Bond and villa Silva (Javier Barm) have a homoerotic terrogatn scene -- and don't even get me started on the naked torture sequence Caso Royale.

DANIEL CRAIG: JAM BOND STAR REVEALS WHY HE GO TO GAY BARS

Havg a ma supportg character be openly gay a anchise like Bond is a big al, ma better by the fact that Whishaw is gay himself. And bee Q appears every Bond movie and is sometim played by the same actor even when Bond is rest, Whishaw's gay Q uld appear future Bond movi. 13:19Pl, No Time to Die is jt one of the mpit and gayt Jam Bond movi ever.

Ana Armas' cktail-chuggg character Paloma is stantly inic, exactly what gays want om a Bond girl: betiful, funny and jt pla badass. While I doubt we'll see a gay Jam Bond anytime soon, the hope of more progrsive stori and character reprentatn has me exced for what Time To Die was released Sept. However, acrdg to a new documentary on the inic pop culture figure, one particular torture scene was almost emed "too gay" to be clud the Skyfall, one such moment was particularly horny -- and particularly gay.

JAM BOND’S GAY HT WAS ALMOST CUT OM SKYFALL, SAYS PRODUCER

RELATED | Benedict Cumberbatch Explas Why He's Playg Gay New Wtern Film. Daniel Craig has revealed that he go to gay bars to avoid "aggrsive" men, havg grown "sick" of gettg to Jam Bond actor, who has jt released his fifth and fal film as 007, No Time To Die, said was tired of the "aggrsive d*** swgg hetero bars". "I've been gog to gay bars for as long as I n remember, " he said.

"And one of the reasons - bee I don't get to fights gay bars that often.

The 53-year-old told Bce Bozzi on his SiriXM podst, Lunch Wh Bce, he felt gay bars "would jt be a good place to go". "You may also be terted :Elk livg wh tyre around neck for two years is fally eeNew antibody jectn able to prevent and treat COVID, study showsSky to replace satelle dish and box wh smart TV setsCraig, who has been married to actrs Rachel Weisz sce 2011, also admted there were benefs to beg a man terted women a gay bar. Subscribe to the Backstage podst on Apple Podsts, Google Podsts, Spotify, SpreakerCraig and Bozzi remisced on how they had once untentnally generated media attentn after gettg "ught" together at a gay bar Venice Beach, California, 2010.

'Q-FORCE': SEAN HAY ON BRGG 'GAY JAM BOND' TO NETFLIX WH ANIMATED SPY EDY

Jam Bond’s ht Skyfall that he may have had a gay experience his past was a missn too far for stud executiv, acrdg to the film’s producer, who said she had to fight attempts to cut the scene. ”The signifince of the scene was wily bated at the time – screenwrer John Logan said was “playg the sort of homoerotic rd that is sort of always there [ Bond films]” – but acrdg to Brocli almost didn’t make the fal versn, a global smash that ma $1.

“I thk there’s a huge homoerotic unrtow a lot of Bond movi, ” he former 007 claimed Brocli would never allow a gay Bond her lifetime. Speakg 2015, Pierce Brosnan said he was open to the ia of a gay 007 but the anchise’s gatekeeper might have different ias.

CRAIG WANTS GAY BOND SCENE

” said Brosnan, when asked whether he uld picture a gay Bond. I don’t thk Barbara would allow a gay Bond to happen her lifetime. This isn’t to give eher of those away, but to divulge a third: that Bond’s handy gadget man, Q, is gay.

(Javier Barm’s character Silva Skyfall flirts outrageoly, but still, nothg about his sexual preference was out the open.)All of which mak gay henchmen Mr Wt and Mr Kidd back 1971’s Diamonds Are Forever, all the more remarkable.

To give some ntext, 1970, the year the film was shot,70 per cent of Amerins thought homosexual relatns were wrong, while the UK was only three years to crimalisatn.Mr Wt and Mr Kidd were played by Bce Glover and Putter Smh, two straight men, but even then they reportedly riled Connery.

'JAM BOND' PRODUCER REVEALS THAT THE SECRET AGENT’S GAY EXPERIENCE WAS ALMOST CUT FROM 'SKYFALL'

Glover, who is now 89, remembers the star beg unfortable wh homoerotic jok durg the shoot.

'NO TIME TO DIE' ACTOR BEN WHISHAW WANTS A GAY JAM BOND: 'THAT WOULD BE REAL PROGRS'

“He didn’t know me, so he thought I was gay. Villas throughout cema history have tend to reflect current “fears” and attus, and homosexuals have a long history of beg vilified. It’s a topic wrer Vo Rso explor his semal 1981 book The Celluloid Closet, which ns through onscreen queer stereotypg om the Sixti to the Eighti, om Dr Frank-N-Furter The Rocky Horror Picture Show to Sharon Stone’s bisexual Cathere Tramell Basic Instct.Glover and director Guy Haton were rponsible for nceivg the characters for the screen and feels as if they med edy orr to create gay characters sued to themselv and mastream dienc of the time.

“I didn’t want to be that kd of clichéd gay guy,” Glover rells, thkg perhaps of the mpns of Richard Burton and Rex Harrison’s gay barbershop uple 1969’s Stairse. I jt had this opportuny and took .”Lowbridge-Ellis go so far as to pots out that much about the characters is, actually, “unniably homophobic”.

From the way Mr Wt was dispatched wh a bomb up his backsi to the obv fact that here were two straight men makg margalised gay men the butt of their jok, ’s easy to argue how Wt and Kidd were explog the LGBT+ muny rather than supportg .But by simply beg onscreen, the duo had reprented the gay muny – and ma a whole crowd cludg myself feel seen – whether their creators had tend to or not. Early the first season of "Q-Force, " Netflix's rnchy and heartfelt new animated edy (now streamg), there's a poignant exchange between novice gay spi Steve (Sean Hay) and Deb (Wanda Syk).

'Q-FORCE': SEAN HAY ON BRGG 'GAY JAM BOND' TO NETFLIX WH ANIMATED SPY EDY

But the openly gay actor, who played the unapologetic Jack McFarland for 11 seasons of the s (cludg s recent revival), murely dismiss his "trailblazer" stat. "I go, 'Gay Jam Bond.

'" "Q-Force" follows the adventur of a misf group of superspi led by Steve, a risg star the Amerin Intelligence Agency (AIA) who's punted to a low-level job Wt Hollywood after g out as gay.

For Liedman, was a chance to make somethg "fun and stupid" and full of queer joy, fog the gay trma we so often see film and televisn.

'NO TIME TO DIE' HTS Q IS GAY LANDMARK LGBTQ+ SCENE

" More:I'm jt a boy, standg ont of Hollywood, beggg for more joyful LGBTQ filmsThe adult-oriented seri also don't shy away om nudy and graphic, although still stylized, pictns of gay sex. It's showg that gay people have sex too, and n be jt as sexy, if not more.

" In the weeks leadg up to release, "Q-Force" has gotten phback om crics and Twter ers for s at-tim dated gay stereotyp, which were on full display  the show's much-rid first teaser trailer. Craig Wants Gay Bond Scene.

DANIEL CRAIG: JAM BOND STAR REVEALS WHY HE GO TO GAY BARS

Daniel Craig Jam Bond Caso Royale Doctor WhoDaniel Craig is urgg movie boss to revolutnise the Jam Bond anchise by cludg a gay scene volvg the superspy the follow-up to Caso Royale. "I mean, look at (Brish TV seri) Doctor Who - that has had gay scen and no one blks an eye. Longstandg Jam Bond producer Barbara Brolli recently spoke about a scene Skyfall that has dited the secret agent once had a gay experience.

DANIEL CRAIG: GAY JAM BOND NEVER GOG TO HAPPEN

But Q actor Ben Whishaw thks would "be real progrs" if an openly gay actor were to play Bond.

But current "No Time to Die" actor Ben Whishaw, who plays Q the 25th Bond movie, has other asked if he would like to see a gay actor play an openly gay Bond an terview wh Attu Magaze, Whishaw said: "God, n you image?