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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).
We all have our secrets: the ‘other’ song of No Time To Die
Billie Eilish’s title song is not the only tune with a starring role in Craig’s final outing. Although this news has been overlooked in English-speaking media, the film prominently features a song from an artist whose own life of glamour mixed with sadness attracts legions of French-speaking gay fans. Queer Bond fan and Sexuality Studies graduate Läne Bonertz dissects how the song perfectly complements the ‘othered’ world of 007 and considers how its inclusion could foreshadow the fates of No Time To Die’s characters.
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…