Golden Bear
XXL creator Mark Ames celebrates his 50th birthday with a big, bold beary bang at Pulse this weekend. To mark the occasion (pun not intended, but there you go…) his partner James McNeill sent us a few...
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Jessie Ware plays at G-A-Y Heaven this weekend and Patrick Cash caught up with her to talk Youtube plays, tough love, Prince William, Nicki Minaj and what exactly are champagne kisses… How do you...
View ArticleThe Sink The Pink sluts take you on a night out at their new weekly Saturday...
Before she arrives at the club,Disnay Chanel does her weekly shop, economy basics all round… Swinging on every pole she finds on the way to Metropolis, in seasonly appropriate clothing, she arrives in...
View ArticleThe Shame & Sexuality Series… 53 shades of Gay
I led a double life in the late 1970s and early 1980s. I was coming to terms with being gay but at the same time I had girlfriends – and had not had a gay experience as yet. I grew up in a privileged...
View ArticleSing For Your Life
Down below Waterloo station, in a graffti-washed subway tunnel, a snaking queue of chattering, smoking London theatre-goers amassed outside the Vaults Festival entrance. The Vaults is quickly becoming...
View ArticleA-Z of XXX
By Dom Top A Arse Where would we be without the arse? Probably masturbating into hot fruit or damp socks. Apps Where you find a dealer when none of your numbers are working. Also a good place to...
View ArticleG-A-Y Porn Idol Launch Party with Katie Hopkins
12/03/14: Few QX interviewees have generated as much a polarized reaction as Katie Hopkins. My interview with her last week (read it here: www.qxmagazine.com/feature/katie-hopkins) drew equal levels of...
View ArticleJessie Ware @ G-A-Y
14/03/15: We’ve been massive Jessie Ware fans since she burst on to the music scene, so when we heard she was taking to the stage at Heaven, we were there with bells on. Well, not actual bells… Which...
View ArticleMark Ames’ 50th @ XXL
14/03/15: It was mighty craic last Saturday night at the steamy hot Pulse club where XXL hosted their St Patrick’s Day mayhem! Everyone was in the mood to celebrate the Irish in them, enjoying a pint...
View ArticleThe George & Dragon
14/03/15: This Saturday we got our dancing shoes on and headed to The George and Dragon for a night of cabaret conundrums and disco floor thrillers. Queen of cabaret Lola Lasagne waltzed on stage in...
View ArticleUnsung Gay Heroes in History
THE IMITATION GAME is a biopic of cryptologist Alan Turing and his heroic war-time efforts at Bletchley Park who is only now being given the recognition he is due. QX looks back into history and...
View ArticleThe Yard is saved!
The first battle is won against the war being waged by property developers on Soho and its spirit. By Patrick Cash Westminster City Council’s planning committee has refused a planning application to...
View ArticleSavage
14/03/15: It was steel chrome and that 70s feelgood type of sound at the Metropolis, this Saturday gone – a strip club that’s become one of East London’s latest venues to throw it’s doors open to gay...
View ArticleDish
14/03/15: DISHevelled, DISHtroyed and DISHabled. That’s the only way we can describe ourselves after the 3rd birthday of this East London institution. After gorging our bodies on fresh beats, served...
View ArticleSafer Chems
GMFA and sexual health centre Burrell Street join forces to provide gay men with advice to make their chems use safer. By Patrick Cash Following the hospitalisation and subsequent death of a man in...
View ArticleThe Gay Sauna Debate
Medical emergencies occurring in gay saunas have been in the press recently. QX peers through the steam to ask whether the sauna culture is a gay relic of days gone by or a queer institution that still...
View ArticleLondon protest against Dolce & Gabbana
Old Bond Street store picketed. Call for boycott of D&G Billionaire designers delight Vatican, far right & homophobes New research shows that kids with gay parents do well in life London – 19...
View ArticleDolce & Gabbana store protest in London
Old Bond Street store picketed. Call for boycott of D&G Billionaire designers delight Vatican, far right & homophobes New research shows that kids with gay parents do well in life London – 19...
View ArticleThe Middle Position. I’m torn. I’m conflicted. I’m split.
Part of me wants to be proud of the scene for its exploration of sex; its non-repressive, open, and hopefully judgement-free stance. As well as a psychotherapist, I am a gay man. By Andy Connolly...
View ArticleA New Idol
Well it’s back! Drag Idol seemingly packed up shop after last year’s competition, when gender-bending LoUis CYfer won, but clearly they couldn’t stay away. The baton of running the three-month long...
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