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.

Have we gone mad?! The second International #JimFanningFriday is on Friday 25th February. Find out what on earth is going on and relive last year’s event here.

Non-binariness is baked into the very DNA of Die Another Day and not even experimental gene therapy can alter that. Although there are binaries aplenty - a dual mission, fire and ice, a duelling dual showdown over a divided country - the film rejects any earnest attempt to pin it down as one thing or another. Fear contends with desire in a cockfight to the death. Analyse this.

With six articles (and counting) to Sam Rogers' name, exploring a range of subjects (from Bond Girls to Bond video games) I was keen to discuss with Sam if he'd had more thoughts about these subjects in a post-No Time To Die world. We talk about this and much much more, including finding your queer Bond fan tribe and which Sugababes track would make the best Bond song.

Let’s raise a glass (containing a new cocktail created in her honour) to Mary Goodnight, one of the most misunderstood Bond girls and a truly relatable gay icon.

Richard Chopping’s striking covers for Fleming’s Bond books helped them to stand out, significantly contributing to their popularity. Chopping was a gay man who became one of the first people in the country to enter into a civil partnership. Jordan Welsh turns the pages on his extraordinary life.

Matt Carter’s first film as a 22 year old director was a gay James Bond film. His soon-to-be-released feature is a love story between two rugby players, based on his personal experiences. I spoke with him about what draws him to stories set in stereotypically hypermasculine, straight male contexts and how gay cinema needs to move beyond telling coming out tales.

In 1955’s Moonraker, Bond gets mixed up in police business at a time when it was ill-advised for gay men to do so.