Event announcement!
FROM HAMPSTEAD WITH LOVE with a great London night at the Circle & Star Theatre celebrating 007 and new histories for all Bond allies, fans and agents – Bond, Queer Bond with Mark O’Connell
Described by The Times as ‘007’s number one fan’, author and pop culture commentator Mark O’Connell is now back with a unique new look at the fabulous other history of a spy.
Bond, Queer Bond is the original, warm-witted and illuminating story of the LGBTQ talents, creatives, politics, beats and personalities that have fantastically shaped the James Bond phenomenon in all its forms and across all its decades. Bond producer Barbara Broccoli, Circle & Star alumni and Bond composer David Arnold, actor Mark Gatiss, key Bond stars and creatives, drag legends and many more feature in this book.
Mark is a frequent guest across various news studios, BBC platforms, media sofas, film conversations and showbiz columns. Blending historical insight with new explorations and insight, Bond, Queer Bond with Mark O’Connell sees TV’s fave Bond scholar discuss the fascinating gay forces, queer celebration and LGBTQ artistry behind the openly straight 007.
Expect a very different metaphorical spin of the DB5 — movie memories, jet set fantasy, lost and found heroes, velvet music and an inclusive warm-witted evening for everyone.
In conversation with leading TV, film and pop culture journalist Paul Simper (Pop Stars In My Pantry, The Saint – From Big Screen to Small Screen and Back Again) and to mark Pride Month, Mark will pull back the sheets on the velvet bullet that is Bond, Queer Bond — its findings, its curios, its humanity, its surprises and its glittering history.
Books are available on the night.
Author signing afterwards.
Plus more surprises to come.
Bond, Queer Bond with Mark O’Connell
Friday 5 June 2026 | £20 | Doors 7:30pm / Show 8:00pm
28 Heath Street, Hampstead NW3
55 seats only | Booking Now | For Tickets
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