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Licence To Queer
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).
He shoots, he scores: Talking Bond, Bend and (rugby) balls with director Matt Carter
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.
‘James Bond is what every man would like to be and what every woman would like between her sheets’. Over six decades, this assertion has become received wisdom. But it turns out we’ve been lied to the whole time…