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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).
007 First Light: The Queer Re-View
James Bond has always been a plaything. For over sixty years, we’ve watched him manipulated by directors, dressed by costume designers, and positioned for our visual pleasure on the silver screen. But the lack of 007 video games in recent times has kept us, the audience, in a more passive role. So what happens when we get James Bond literally in our hands?
Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend: A Queer Appreciation of Tiffany Case
There’s much more to Miss Case than meets the eye, regardless of whichever hair piece she happens to be wearing at any given time. Jack Bell takes Tiffany’s own advice and keeps it original, finding fascinating new insights into the character and the actress who brought her to indelible life: Jill St. John.
We already know how it ends; the exciting part is finding out why. Dan Jones's new novella, All In, takes James Bond to Ceylon in 1954 with Tiffany Case at his side, and anyone who has read From Russia, with Love knows that Tiffany will not be at his side for long. Fleming told us that Bond and Tiffany came apart, but he never told us why, and that gap is where All In lives. Let’s take a fresh look at the clues Fleming left us in the original novels…