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‘To be Bond or to bed him?’
‘To be Bond or to bed him?’

‘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…

Q Division
Q Division

Gavin has seen all the James Bond movies, and Chels hasn't seen any of them. Together, they’re working through the Bond series on their podcast: Q Division. David joins them to decode Diamonds Are Forever.

‘Pretty boy, beware of his heart of gold’
‘Pretty boy, beware of his heart of gold’

Film students from East Sussex have recreated the iconic opening titles to Goldfinger, subverting the presumed-to-be straight male gaze by substituting the buxom female form with a muscled male model.

The Other Fellas
The Other Fellas

In just three years, Licence to Queer readers have raised more than £9000 for charities, including UNICEF, Papyrus - Prevention of Young Suicide and - for 2025 - Prostate Cancer UK.

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).

David Lowbridge-Ellis David Lowbridge-Ellis

“Sexuality, gender and James Bond are all very complex subjects…” Breaking binaries with Ben Williams

Bisexual Bond expert Ben Williams and I have been speaking for years behind the scenes, emboldening each other to be more openly queer. After they came out as non-binary, we thought it was about time we tackled The Big Stuff more publicly: gender binaries, putting who we’re attracted to into boxes and, perhaps most profoundly of all, what needs to be going down in our personal lives to make sense of Quantum of Solace.

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