QX Recommends…Frau Welt – The avant-garde new one-person show at Hackney...
Touching down in a pernicious puff of powder foundation this month, Frau Welt is the beguiling new show at the esteemed Hackney Showroom. Well, “show” doesn’t really do it justice. Phantom of The Opera...
View ArticleDJ of the Week – Babybear
All the way from glam Paris, superstar DJ Babybear gives us his fave tunes ahead of his set at Dalston Superstore’s Patsy next Friday! Hey Babybear! Describe yourself in one gorge sentence. I am a...
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Artsbitching – Holly Penfield
Sasha Selavie on a cabaret icon Ever heard of Holly Penfield? Of course you have – she’s the undisputed queen of gay Soho cabaret! Fierce, avant-garde and relentlessly excellent, she brought a...
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The new George Michael documentary from Channel 4 is two dimensional, but a surefire fan-pleaser As always happens in the ensuing months after the death of a musical icon, a trickle of posthumous...
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Power To The Women
We meet the powerful women working on London’s LGBTQ scene In a male-dominated world they manage, perform, create, keep us safe and generally run the show. But what is it like to be a woman working on...
View ArticleChappy becomes first gay app to alert users to screengrabs
“Screengrabbing” and “screenshotting” are words that we’ve only been using for a couple of years, but over those two years, the actual practice of doing it has probably caused more drama than Lindsay...
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The Return Of The Joiners Arms
The beloved East London venue is back with a vengeance! The Joiners Arms was a much-loved Hackney Road homo haunt that had to shut its doors in early 2015 after Regal Homes, a property developer,...
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Discerning scene musings of the princess of East London! Do you find you save yourself for those highlights in the clubbing calendar when everybody goes out, ora are you the type who couldn’t care less...
View ArticleThe Stable
The central London sauna is BACK IN ACTION In amongst the gaudy street performers, boutique shops, and fancy restaurants of Covent Garden lies a salubrious spa for London’s discerning homos! It’s...
View ArticleGilgamesh
Sasha Selavie reviews Piers Beckley’s startling new play Does most West End theatre bore the piss out of you? Join the club! Just mince down Shaftesbury Avenue, and there’s a puerile, poxy parade of...
View ArticleQX Preview: A:M IS IT
Apparently, this year’s adaptation of IT was the highest-grossing horror movie EVER. In fact, after having a hiatus, the horror genre has returned in a big way, not just in cinema, but with huge TV...
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Eight alcohol-free activities to do on the London gay scene!
It was supposed to be 10 but we could only think of 8. It’s that time of year where there’s marginally less on and the chaotic Christmas season looms on the horizon like some sort of tinsel-strewn...
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The QX & Chappy Guide To Gay Halloween Looks
We LOVE Halloween don’t we! Give us a bit of eyeliner and some booze and we’re anyone’s! It’s the same reason we love Ab Fab, and Cher. It’s a stereotype of gay men that is (mostly) true. We know a...
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Witches in our midst: Meet the real witches on London’s queer scene!
Think you’ve never met a witch? THINK AGAIN! They’re more prevalent than you might think. London’s full of ‘em! Thought that was an errant pigeon casting a shadow over the moon at Streatham Hill...
View ArticleCirca Goes Late – Extended opening hours for one of Soho’s most popular haunts
It’s Halloween weekend and the Soho streets are teeming with dribble-encased plastic fangs, litres of fake blood, and one slightly dazed Harley Quinn who hasn’t stopped partying since last year. The...
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Year Of The Witch – 2017 has seen witches become more popular in the music...
We love witchy things! And 2017 has been a particularly witchy year. There’ve been séances, spells, lots of witchy floaty clothing…and, mysteriously, chalk pentagrams keep popping up on the streets of...
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#JULIASAYS – Discerning scene musings from the Princess of East London
As we enter the weekend of all things Halloween, it seems everyone has picked up on a major excuse to goth up in some sort of way. Halloween humour extends itsself to the mundane to the downright gory...
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Ten Hot Witchy Guys!
We love a witchy man! The sort of man who’d shag you silly then cook you a post-coital meal of batwings and confusion. Who keeps his poppers in a goblet and his lube in a cauldron. Witchy! It takes...
View Article“It’s gorgeous, it’s painful and it’s more than just a story” – Catherine...
It’s the 1980s and seventeen year old Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet) is wiling away the long summer days at his parents’ villa in Northern Italy. School is out and the sun is beating down; there’s...
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JULIASAYS – Discerning scene musings of the princess of East London!
I don’t often go on about new music, and perhaps I should because there seems to be a new wave of invigorating artists that I’m loving! Like HMLTD – omg, you have to see and hear this lot! Boys in...
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