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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: Die Another Day
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.
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…