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:
- JAM BOND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER REVEAL NO TIME TO DIE MA ME TEAR UP
- 'NO TIME TO DIE' HTS Q IS GAY LANDMARK LGBTQ+ SCENE
- DANIEL CRAIG: GAY JAM BOND NEVER GOG TO HAPPEN
- DID NO TIME TO DIE JT OUT ONE OF THE CHARACTERS AS GAY?
- HOW JAM BOND'S DROPPED GAY AGENT WOULD'VE CHANGED THE FRANCHISE
- ‘I KNEW WAS A URAGEO THG TO DO’: THE CUR STORY OF BOND’S FIRST GAY VILLAS
- JAM BOND’S GAY HT WAS ALMOST CUT OM SKYFALL, SAYS PRODUCER
JAM BOND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER REVEAL NO TIME TO DIE MA ME TEAR UP
Inial plans for Timothy Dalton's third Jam Bond film clud a gay agent, which would've had a major anchise impact - had actually happened. * 007 gay characters *
In the 1950s, homosexual acts, or at least on volvg mal, were agast the law the Uned Kgdom. In the post-war perd, a number of real-life Brish spi, such as the Cambridge Four fected to the Soviets, and some of them, such as Guy Burgs and Antony Blunt were attracted to men, which helped create a negative image of gay spi. Lren Spungen cricized the portrayal argug that the "battle between heterosexualy and homosexualy" is a metaphor for the battle of "good and evil".
'NO TIME TO DIE' HTS Q IS GAY LANDMARK LGBTQ+ SCENE
He forms part of the gay gentleman's outfter trope, which n be found Brish culture om ss such as Are you beg Served? It is subtly hted that he may be a relatnship wh Q, if so that would make this film's Q the first gay one until Ben Whishaw. Fordyce is a Bond ally, but also reprents a mcg stereotype of a gay man.
DANIEL CRAIG: GAY JAM BOND NEVER GOG TO HAPPEN
Wt and Kidd who never refer to each other by first name the film of Diamond Are Forever are a gay male uple. In the novel Kidd is nicknamed varly "Dolly" or "Boofy" (the latter nickname also ed the film), and Felix Leer says he spects Kidd “probably shacks up wh Wt”, and says "some of the homos mak the worst killers". Actor Javier Barm who plays Silva, when asked if the character was gay or bisexual said, “You uld read that way.
DID NO TIME TO DIE JT OUT ONE OF THE CHARACTERS AS GAY?
Ben Whishaw's Q is shown to be a gay man No Time to Die, and is wag for a male date the film.
Ben Whishaw himself is a gay man real life. This is the first time one of Bond's "support team" has been shown to be openly gay, but was not ma obv earlier appearanc of Ben Whishaw's prev portrayals of the character. The 1967 Caso Royale film has s own mp Q, but is not clear if he is gay (he do have a spat wh Fordyce), although Geofey Bayldon himself was.
HOW JAM BOND'S DROPPED GAY AGENT WOULD'VE CHANGED THE FRANCHISE
Assistant Commissner Ronnie Vallance appears the novel of Moonraker, and is not gay.
While wag for his ntact, Assistant Commissner Ronnie Vallance, he be creasgly ncerned that he might be mistaken for eher a crimal or one of the fluential people “sperately hopg to persu Vallance that their sons were not really homosexuals”. It’s a remr that 1955, when Moonraker was published, homosexual acts were still crimal offenc. In the novel of The Man wh the Goln Gun, M mentns a "popular theory that a man who nnot whistle has homosexual tennci" and is noted that Sramanga nnot do so.
GLQ: A Journal of Lbian and Gay Studi 7 (3): 417–423. "When Can Homophobia Live and Let Die? ↑ 'Skyfall' Bisexual Scene: Jam Bond Screenwrer Reveals Impet Behd Homoerotic Interrogatn, Huffgton Post.
‘I KNEW WAS A URAGEO THG TO DO’: THE CUR STORY OF BOND’S FIRST GAY VILLAS
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.