James Bond actor Daniel Craig has revealed that he prefers gay bars to straight bars because they’re a “very safe place to be.”
The No Time to Die star recently appeared on Bruce Bozzi’s Lunch With Bruce podcast on SiriusXM, where the pair discussed their friendship and the infamous tabloid reporting after they were spotted in a California gay bar.
National Enquirer breathlessly reported on Craig’s “open-mouth passionate French kiss” with Bozzi — who is married to director Bryan Lourd — at Roosterfish in Venice Beach in 2010.
“We’re tactile, we love each other. We give each other hugs, it’s OK. We’re two fucking grown men,” Craig, who is married to actress Rachel Weisz, said to Bozzi.
“For me, it was one of those situations and the irony is, you know, we kind of got caught, I suppose, which was kind of weird because we were doing nothing fucking wrong.
“What happened is we were having a nice night and I kind of was talking to you about my life when my life was changing and we got drunk and I was like, ‘Oh, let’s just go to a bar, come on, let’s fucking go out.’ And I just was like, ‘I know I don’t give a fuck,’ and we’re in Venice.”
Craig, 53, said he prefers gay bars because he can avoid the “aggressive dick-swinging in hetero bars.”
“I’ve been going to gay bars for as long as I can remember,” he said. “One of the reasons: because I don’t get into fights in gay bars that often.”
He added: “As a kid, because it was like… ‘I don’t want to end up [being] in a punch-up.’ And I did. That would happen quite a lot. And it [a gay bar] would just be a good place to go.”
Craig said that his experience in gay bars was that “everybody” was “chill.”
“You didn’t really have to sort of state your sexuality. It was okay. And it was a very safe place to be,” he said. “And I could meet girls there, cause there are a lot of girls there for exactly the same reason I was there. It was kind of an ulterior motive.”
Craig currently stars in No Time to Die in his last outing as James Bond. It has since earned more than $330 million at the global box office, including more than $70 million in Craig’s native UK alone.
A gay Holocaust survivor is comparing former President Donald Trump's autocratic tendencies and propaganda tactics to former Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
With the help of her children and grandchildren, the 88-year-old woman, known as Grandma Elli, was able to familiarize herself with TikTok and start posting observations about the upcoming U.S. presidential election.
"I've been around a long time and seen many crises, but never like this one in our country," she said in her first video. "As far as I can see, there's really only one question to answer as we decide who we want for our next president, and that is: Do we want to continue our democracy, civil liberties, and free elections, or do we want a 'wannabe dictator,' by his own words, who will go after our freedoms one by one, dismantle them, and then take vengeance on all who disagreed with him?"
Terryon Thomas, a Queer TikTok creator known as "Mr. Prada," with 4 million followers, has been charged in conjunction with the murder of gay Louisiana therapist William Nicholas Abraham, who was found dead on the side of a Louisiana highway on Sept. 29. Police say Abraham died as a result of blunt-force trauma.
Police in Baton Rouge issued a warrant for Thomas's arrest on Oct. 1 after he allegedly refused to comply with officers during a traffic stop. The arrest warrant claims that the vehicle Thomas was driving -- which had belonged to Abraham -- was reported stolen and that Thomas backed into the officers' car and fled, according to NBC News.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has been promoted to senior adviser to President Joe Biden, becoming the first active press secretary to hold that title.
"Karine has been a trusted advisor to the President and all of us here at the White House since day one," Jeff Zients, Biden's chief of staff, told ABC News. "Her counsel will be critical to get as much done as possible for the American people in the coming months."
Jean-Pierre made history in 2022 when she was tapped to replace Jen Psaki as press secretary, becoming the first Black woman and the first openly gay person to hold the position of the White House's chief spokesperson.
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