Clik here to view.
Jonny Woo in conversation with…Christeene
This weekend, East London drag royalty, Jonny Woo, takes over the resplendent Hackney Empire and fills it with a whole heap of disruptive, queer performers for his Un-Royal Variety Show! In...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pop-up restaurant to launch with all HIV+ staff
Ahead of World AIDS Day on Friday 1st December, a Canadian HIV/AIDS hospital is hosting a pop-up restaurant staffed entirely by people living with HIV. Casey’s House are holding June’s HIV+ Eatery in...
View ArticleDive Into The Tank
The cheeky international fetish party is coming to London! International promoter Rudi Brunnenmiller has been hosting Spain’s hottest fetish parties for the last fourteen years. Now he’s touching down...
View ArticlePansexual Paradise
Sasha Selavie on the genre-smashing, gender-bending band, The Cockettes Whether by a process of genetic selection or not, gay men, generally, are in a completely different league from straight guys....
View ArticleHorse Meat Disco turn 14!
As the Vauxhall Sunday night fave turns fourteen, we speak to superstar DJ, Jim Stanton! Back in the halcyon days of the early noughties, four DJs noted the lack of disco on London’s house-heavy gay...
View ArticleMichael Twaits’s London
The cabaret star tell us their favourite stuff about our gorgey city. Remember that YouTube clip Busy Drag Queen that everyone was sharing like mad on social media a few years ago? Well, whenever we...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Don’t be a dick! Chappy tackles dating app abuse
Gay dating app Chappy have introduced a new pledge all users have to agree to in an attempt to eliminate the stigma, prejudice and abuse that have become all too common on gay dating platforms. All new...
View ArticleClik here to view.
REVIEW: Beach Rats
Words by Catherine Pearson It’s time to get Call Me By Your Name out of your head. Seriously, do it now. Goodbye gorgeous love story in the Italian sunshine, hello joyless sex in a Brooklyn forest....
View ArticleClik here to view.
REVIEW: Jonny Woo’s Un-Royal Variety Show @ Hackney Empire
It’s always a bit eye-roll inducing when society magazines use the phrase “a who’s who” when referring to events, but the crowd at Jonny Woo’s Un-Royal Variety Show at Hackney Empire on Saturday night...
View ArticleClik here to view.
We met Damian Barr in an alley in Soho and talked homophobia, his new novel...
It’s a Friday afternoon in Soho, and we’re in a cobbled alleyway with writer Damian Barr. It’s dusk, and on nearby Denmark Street, neon guitars flicker in the windows of the few music shops that have...
View ArticleGet tested this HIV testing week!
The lovely people at THT talk us through the importance of knowing your status. This year’s National HIV Testing Week comes at the end of a historic year in the fight against HIV. For the first time,...
View ArticleMeet the hosts of Tribe…
We meet the hosts of London’s hottest new fetish night, Tribe! Stop what you’re doing! Minimise that Buzzfeed quiz! Put down that toffee yum-yum! We have something DEADLY important to tell you; Tribe...
View ArticleJULIASAYS
Discerning scene musings of the princess of East London! Could this be the lull before the storm as we find ourselves in mid-November, suddenly getting ready for seasonal festivities ahead?! Ha...
View ArticleClik here to view.
QX Meets…Amy Lamé
London’s Night Czar, one year on In November last year, Duckie head honcho Amy Lamé was appointed London’s first ever Night Czar by Mayor Sadiq Khan. One of the first things she did was commission some...
View ArticleClik here to view.
DADDY ISSUES – We meet the men behind 2017’s hottest new club brand
Daddy Issues was the hottest party to hit the London gay scene last year, and now they’re branching out internationally, from the sunny shores of Spain to the paparazzi-peppered LA. With more exciting...
View ArticleANAHITA: Meet the queer DJ who put on underground parties in Iran
Iranian DJ Anahita moved to London from Iran seven years ago. Since then, she’s made a name for herself as a DJ on the East London scene and further afield. Ahead of her set at Homostash tomorrow...
View ArticleCentre of My World and Teenage Kicks: Two critically-acclaimed gay movies are...
Gay cinema has really stepped things up in the last few months. Gone are the days of hammy dialogue, characters called “Brent” and “Troy”, and gratuitous sex. Well, there’s still a bit of gratuitous...
View ArticleGIG REVIEW: Dua Lipa @ O2 Academy Brixton
Dua Lipa’s gig on Monday opened with the thrum of stonking synths, and Blade Runner-esque visuals pulsating ominously across the crumblingly ornate Brixton Academy. A huge neon red triangle ate itself...
View ArticleThe QX Guide To Surviving Winter
It’s WINTER! Mariah Carey’s voice is waiting in the wings behind tinny speakers from Westfield to Wanstead, Lady Lloyd has started wearing actual clothes, and the ducks in Regents Park are starting to...
View ArticleArtsbitching: Corpse Bride Blitzkreigl!
Sasha Selavie on the inimitable Marchesa Casati Who could possibly make the flaming queen Quentin Crisp catch his breath and gasp, ‘She wasn’t beautiful – she was spectacular!’ Well, meet the Marchesa...
View Article