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• 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
• DANIEL CRAIG: JAM BOND STAR REVEALS WHY HE GO TO GAY BARS
• DANIEL CRAIG: GAY JAM BOND NEVER GOG TO HAPPEN
• JAM BOND IS GAY
• WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW IS A GAY JAM BOND
• JAM BOND WALKS TO A GAY BAR. BUT SHOULD HE?
• 'NO TIME TO DIE' HTS Q IS GAY LANDMARK LGBTQ+ SCENE
• ‘I KNEW WAS A URAGEO THG TO DO’: THE CUR STORY OF BOND’S FIRST GAY VILLAS
• FAMO HOMOEROTIC JAM BOND SCENE ALMOST 'TOO GAY' FOR STUD EXECS
• LE EVANS ADDRS MOURS HE ULD BE FIRST GAY JAM BOND: ‘I DON’T THK MATTERS’
• NETFLIX HAS ORRED A SPY SERI DCRIBED AS A ‘GAY JAM BOND’
• 'NO TIME TO DIE' ACTOR BEN WHISHAW WANTS A GAY JAM BOND: 'THAT WOULD BE REAL PROGRS'
• BOND’S BEN WHISHAW WANTS GAY ACTOR TO REPLACE DANIEL CRAIG, AND HE KNOWS TWO ‘IAL’ MEN
• 'Q-FORCE': SEAN HAY ON BRGG 'GAY JAM BOND' TO NETFLIX WH ANIMATED SPY EDY

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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. 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.

DANIEL CRAIG: GAY JAM BOND NEVER GOG TO HAPPEN

” 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. 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.

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".

JAM BOND IS GAY

"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.

WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW IS A GAY JAM BOND

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.

The somewhat homoerotic moment climax wh Bond teasg, "What mak you thk this is my first time?

JAM BOND WALKS TO A GAY BAR. BUT SHOULD HE?

"Well, Bond is not gay. "No, " Craig said when I asked if he uld ever image a "gay Jam Bond. "Bee he's not gay, " he said.

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

"Back 1999, out gay actor Rupert Everett created a firtorm of headl when he announced that he was wrg and planng to star a movie about a gay Jam Bond. Skip to ntentWe jt didn’t realize until Daniel Craig protted way too much:Daniel Craig, the current Jam Bond, gave a long-wd explanatn that he has always equented gay bars om the time he was young, bee he lik the fact they are ee of the ttosterone regular bars, where he always got to fights and brawls, pl girls go to gay bars, and so he had an ulterr motive gog there, bee he is so to women.

The reason for the whole exposn was, he was seen a photo kissg another man a gay bar. He explaed that was jt him and the guy jokg around, they had been hangg out as bros and were havg a ltle fun pretendg to be be gay. In a gay, Daniel Craig is secretly gay, is married to a satanist, and isn’t leavg any of “his” money to his children.

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

I was on an openly gay rerd label the ’90s, and no one at Wax Trax!

Was as obvly and nclively gay as that “explanatn” provid by Daniel Craig. It’s gayer than the Electric Six song.

FAMO HOMOEROTIC JAM BOND SCENE ALMOST 'TOO GAY' FOR STUD EXECS

He was even highlighted by current Jam Bond star Ben Whishaw, who plays the technil mastermd Q the seri, as a good ndidate for a gay 007. 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?

LE EVANS ADDRS MOURS HE ULD BE FIRST GAY JAM BOND: ‘I DON’T THK MATTERS’

Actor Daniel Craig, bt known for playg the dashg and cidly heterosexual Jam Bond, ma headwds this week when he revealed that he is a big fan of gay bars. "I’ve been gog to gay bars for as long as I n remember, ” Craig, 53, said Tuday on the podst "Lunch Wh Bce.

NETFLIX HAS ORRED A SPY SERI DCRIBED AS A ‘GAY JAM BOND’

" "One of the reasons: bee I don't get to fights gay bars that often. "Gay bars, Craig add, "would jt be a good place to go.

"Craig, who has been married to the Brish actor Rachel Weisz for 10 years, add that he went to gay bars his youth to meet sgle reactn onle om the LGBTQ muny was mixed. "But others said Craig and other straight people gog to gay bars “ at the expense” of LGBTQ spac. "If gay bars are *full* of straight people then they aren't gay bars any more, " one er wrote on Twter.

"The bate over straight people's place gay and lbian bars as mass of LGBTQ bars have closed over the last several 2007 to 2019, 37 percent of the natn's gay bars closed, acrdg to a 2019 study by Greggor Mattson, an associate profsor of soclogy at Oberl College.

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

’s only the lol gay bar where you n fd a genr-clive rtroom or a bullet board where LGBTQ+ bs owners are advertisg their servic or a bartenr who n direct you to a place to apply for an LGBTQ+ iendly job. "We don’t get to put on a gay hat jt like when we feel like .

"Y, the vulnerabily of gay spac, but how about the brokenns of straight bars that even a famo, buff guy don’t feel safe gog out? No Time to Die featur a scene that seems to nfirm Ben Whishaw's Q is gay, makg his character the first ally of Jam Bond (played by Daniel Craig) to be out as a member of the LGBTQ+ the 007 anchise has prevly had characters that were d gay or were LGBTQ+ the Ian Flemg books, the were nearly all the new Bond movie (**spoilers ahead**), Bond and Moneypenny (Naomie Harris) make a surprise vis to Q's apartment to lnch a vert missn whout the knowledge of M (Ralph Fienn). Avengers: Endgame h the headl for a scene which a man mourns the loss of his male partner durg "The Blip, " for example, while the more recent Jungle Cise featur a scene which Jack Whehall's character some have praised the scen, others have cricised them for beg mor moments that are tratgly y, that avoid speakg plaly about characters' gay liv.

Meanwhile, some viewers have poted out that the films should seek to tegrate their characters' sexuali throughout the film, rather than talk about them short clips that seem to be signed so they n easily be cut out untri wh anti-gay laws and sentiments. As No Time to Die has only been released a few untri so far, however, remas to be seen whether the film will ed this scene ls tolerant this Q scene may only be a mor moment, is a landmark a anchise that has prevly had gay villas, wh their homosexualy d as part of what mak them so example, the novel Diamonds are Forever, Felix Leer spects that sadistic killers Mr. Kidd are gay – somethg the movie leans to by havg them hold hands and say that one character is attractive "for a lady.

BOND’S BEN WHISHAW WANTS GAY ACTOR TO REPLACE DANIEL CRAIG, AND HE KNOWS TWO ‘IAL’ MEN

The latt Bond movie "No Time to Die" hts that the character is gay. The novel Goldfger featur the homophobic trope that Psy Galore only beme a lbian after beg sexually abed by a man. In the movie, meanwhile, she is d lbian, but is implied that Bond is able to turn her straight wh his male this Q scene No Time to Die suffers om the same problems as other morn blockbters that overpromise and unrliver on LGBTQ+ ntent, do speak for the efforts the anchise has ma to be more makers of Skyfall, for example, have spoken about havg to fight to keep a scene which Bond flirts wh Silva (Javier Barm) and hts at a prev gay experience.

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

Whishaw, who me out himself 2013, has prevly played gay characters like Norman Stt A Very English Sndal and Danny Holt London Spy.