'No Time To Die' Hts Q Is Gay Landmark LGBTQ+ Scene

Contents:

• JAM BOND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER REVEAL NO TIME TO DIE MA ME TEAR UP
• JAM BOND’S GAY HT WAS ALMOST CUT OM SKYFALL, SAYS PRODUCER
• ‘HOW DO ONE GET TO THE GAY BDSM BOTTOMG SCENE?’
• WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW IS A GAY JAM BOND
• ‘I KNEW WAS A URAGEO THG TO DO’: THE CUR STORY OF BOND’S FIRST GAY VILLAS
• JAM BOND IS GAY
• 'NO TIME TO DIE' HTS Q IS GAY LANDMARK LGBTQ+ SCENE
• PIERCE BROSNAN: JAM BOND ULDN'T BE GAY WHILE BARBARA BROCLI ALIVE
• 'NO TIME TO DIE' ACTOR BEN WHISHAW WANTS A GAY JAM BOND: 'THAT WOULD BE REAL PROGRS'

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.

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

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.

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.

‘HOW DO ONE GET TO THE GAY BDSM BOTTOMG SCENE?’

It seems the 'Q' LGBTQ+ now stands for the latt Jam Bond movie, No Time to Die, which also happens to be Daniel Craig's last the role, a classic character fally reveals what we've spected for several movi: that he's gay.

WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW IS A GAY JAM BOND

"Whishaw, who is gay real life, recently told Attu that he'd love to see a gay Jam Bond. 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. ” 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. And YouTube has a channel for everyone the kk spectm om gay to straight to trans to nonbary and beyond!

‘I KNEW WAS A URAGEO THG TO DO’: THE CUR STORY OF BOND’S FIRST GAY VILLAS

“ is a great optn for gay men, ” said Metal om the gay male bondage webse “It’s a se where you n create a profile, wdow-shop for a play buddy, and ‘check his referenc.

JAM BOND IS GAY

(Also: There are tons of gay guys out there to spankg, SPANK. I love that the gay muny there is a cute term for guys like me reflectg body posivy. I haven’t asked my gay/bear iends about (though they’ve referred to me as a bear on ocsn) bee I’m aaid I won’t get a straight answer (no pun tend).

Gay, straight, hairy, smooth, fat, mcled—bear is a state of md.

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

It is likely, though, that the new more enlightened, gay Jam Bond might already be passé what's next the evolvg Jam Bond film seri?

This isn’t to give eher of those away, but to divulge a third: that Bond’s handy gadget man, Q, is gay.

PIERCE BROSNAN: JAM BOND ULDN'T BE GAY WHILE BARBARA BROCLI ALIVE

)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 Wt and Mr Kidd were played by Bce Glover and Putter Smh, two straight men, but even then they reportedly riled Connery. Glover, who is now 89, remembers the star beg unfortable wh homoerotic jok durg the shoot.

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 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.

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

”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 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. A gay edy wrer based London, Mark O'Connell's recently published memoir, Catchg Bullets: Memoirs of a Bond Fan, is somethg a lot of boys (on both sis of the Atlantic) n probably relate to: It's about growg up as a gay 007 fan.

Although there are hundreds of books about there about Bond, there's probably not one que like this, and we're happy to see e about at ic g of age the shadow of Bond story has a foreword by gay edy actor/wrer Mark Gatiss (Sherlock, Doctor Who) and a prelu by Bond producer Barbara Brocli. " No-one is claimg his chiselled torso Skyfall is "sexist" Bond films have skirted round the prentatn of gay characters (1971's Diamonds Are Forever famoly featur homo-cidal killers Wt and Kidd and Caso Royale's Le Chife nnot keep his ey off Daniel Craig), yet have never done so at the excln of gay dienc.