There’s been excement about Q’s queer revelatn ‘No Time to Die’ but the anchise’s first gay characters appeared all the way back 1971’s ‘Diamonds Are Forever’. Fifty years on, Adam Bloodworth talks to the actors who played Mr Wt and Mr Kidd about why they’re worth celebratg
Contents:
- ‘I KNEW WAS A URAGEO THG TO DO’: THE CUR STORY OF BOND’S FIRST GAY VILLAS
- JAM BOND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER REVEAL NO TIME TO DIE MA ME TEAR UP
‘I KNEW WAS A URAGEO THG TO DO’: THE CUR STORY OF BOND’S FIRST GAY VILLAS
An otherwise excellent adventure, Diamonds Are Forever suffers om one major problem, the homophobic portrayal of the ma villas. On the other hand, I nnot ignore the overt homophobia embedd the characterizatn of the two evil henchman Mr.
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JAM BOND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER REVEAL NO TIME TO DIE MA ME TEAR UP
The msage is pretty clear, beg gay or genr non-nformg is somethg done only by evil socpaths. However the blatant homophobia, and brief stance of transphobia, e the whole project to sk faster than an explodg oil rig. This isn’t to give eher of those away, but to divulge a third: that Bond’s handy gadget man, Q, is gay.