Queer pride and national pride rarely go hand in hand, so why does everybody love The Spy Who Loved Me? Bond has always embodied his nation and this film in particular – released in the Queen’s Silver Jubilee year – puts both Bond and Britain on top, in more ways than one. This cinematic male power fantasy should send running any viewers who don’t identify with ‘harder’ versions of masculinity, especially those which are intertwined with a hardline loyalty to country. But there’s something about Roger’s third entry that makes all of us, including queens and the Queen herself, just keep coming.

What’s not to love about a film featuring no fewer than seven James Bonds?! On the Spy Hards podcast, Alan J. Porter (The James Bond Lexicon) and Licence To Queer’s David do their best to defend the honour of this unique and fascinating slice of Bond history; a film which is no less ‘official’ than the entries in the Eon canon.

In a bit of a departure from Bond, Sam and David discuss why the joyful Netflix smash hit Heartstopper is a milestone in queer culture and why EVERYONE needs to watch it.

Waking up to a golden cadaver; witnessing an astronaut suffocate in space; watching a woman be torn apart by dogs; wincing as a man’s head decompresses… the world of Bond has given many of us nightmares. Perhaps it’s this transgressiveness which makes both Bond and horror films such good (death)bed mates. Callum McKelvie investigates.

Daniel Craig turned heads when he turned up to the No Time To Die premiere wearing a shocking-pink jacket. A statement piece in more ways than one, it was widely hailed as a break with Bond tradition. But the more we look, the more we find that this is hardly Bond’s first time wearing the most ‘feminine’ of shades.

“It might sound strange for an asexual person to be a Bond fan, given that sexual attraction is such a big part of the character’s world…” Fenna Geelhoed sets asexual representation in her sights and targets the best and worst examples from the Bond series.

Bond asking Tracy to marry him is one of the most rapturously romantic scenes in cinema history. Its modesty and gender equality subvert what we expect from a traditional marriage proposal. Without me realising until now, I think it may have influenced my own…

In the dark days of my early twenties, I fell out of love with Bond and poor Batman had to shoulder the responsibility of being my queer role model. Now that I’m nearly 40, staring down like a brooding gargoyle at my impending birthday, I’m wondering where the Batman and Bond influences end and the real me begins?

Bond’s bed-hopping him more in sync with gay men than straight men - or so the stereotypes would have us believe. Sam Rogers takes a candid and funny look back over his love life to date, drawing parallels with Bond’s.

Thank you to everyone - women, men, non-binary persons, animals - who took part in the second annual International Jim Fanning Friday. Here is the collage of all the selfies and the art work created especially.

After a recent article erroneously claimed that Ben Whishaw’s Q was the first LGBTQ+ character in Bond, Calvin Dyson and I met up to set the record not-so-straight.