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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).
The name’s Leflour, Jill Leflour
Growing up in rural France, Jill created a James Bond persona to try to process his gender dysphoria. Now out as a trans gay man, living and working in London, Jill attended the premiere of No Time To Die and has been processing his feelings about the film ever since. We talked about why James Bond means so much to us as queer people, why we see things others overlook and how our partners accommodate our Bond obsessions.
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?