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Licence To Queer covers queer aspects of Bond books, video games and more. Search here for your favourite titles and characters or find content related to particular queer identities (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, etc).
Queer re-view: Skyfall
If Dorothy in the The Wizard of Oz is to be believed, there's no place like home. But what if that home is Skyfall? In his 50th anniversary queer odyssey, 00-Dorothy doesn’t just kick back against traditional notions of home and family; along the way he creates a unconventional family to replace the one he lost and blows up his childhood abode with dynamite. Talk about cathartic!
“Licence to Queer is a community…” Interesting 2022 conference, London
I was asked to deliver a talk about Licence To Queer at Conway Hall in Central London. In this 10 minute presentation I speak about why I created an online space for queer Bond fans at the start of the Covid-19 lockdowns and how it has grown into a true community.
Queer 007 characters: In conversation with Calvin Dyson
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.
The truth about Tennyson: Britishness, ‘buggering on’ and the gay love poem at the heroic heart of Skyfall
M’s poetry reading is one of Skyfall’s most gripping and memorable scenes, imbuing the film with a sense of what Winston Churchill would have termed ‘buggering on’. It also contains a tragic gay love story, mostly forgotten about (or hidden) for nearly 200 years.
Of all the fantastical elements of the James Bond franchise, it’s our amorous agent’s consequence-free sex life that strains credulity the most. The creators of the next 007 instalment would be wise to reflect modern day reality in at least one regard: we need to see him enjoying sex safely and responsibly.