Come to the (weeknight) cabaret!
London’s cabaret scene is one of the most thriving and diverse in the world, with new artists and shows constantly emerging. And it’s not just all happening at the weekend. Each night of the week...
View ArticleDoes the Gay Community Fetishize Black Men?
Dylan Jones speaks with East London scenester Ola Awosika and drag performer Cairo to explore sexual attitudes towards black men on the London gay scene. You don’t need to look far to find...
View ArticleFitladz East
05/06/15: QX found ourselves fumbling in Farringdon as Fitladz got its rocks off with a super-sexy launch bash at a brand new location last Friday. Taking in a marathon twelve hours of sizzling...
View ArticleG-A-Y Presents Carly Rae Jepsen
A vision in an acid lemon yellow trouser suit and sporting a new jet black bob, Carly Rae Jepsen (no relation!) rocked up at G-A-Y on Saturday fresh from Capital’s Summertime Ball with her full band...
View ArticleG-A-Y Porn Idol with Ginger Minj
04/06/15: In surely one of the biggest tragedies in drag herstory, last Monday’s grand finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 7 saw our favourite queen Ginger Minj lose out to fellow contestant Violet...
View ArticleJust What We Always Wanted!
Following her sellout UK tour in 2014, Mari Wilson is back with a brand new show, Ready Steady Girls, featuring unique interpretations of the artists and songs that inspired her growing up, including...
View ArticleCan’t Beat this Meat
Get your teeth into this! Meat Magazine are launching their seventeenth issue at the RVT. Meat is a super-trendy cult gay zine, with lovely thick matte pages full of lovely thick-thighed hairy men....
View ArticleLeona Lewis
Leona Lewis has had enough. She’s taken her amazing vocal range and song-writing talents away from Simon Cowell’s Syco and hotfooted it over to a new label, Island Records, where she’s released new...
View ArticleBourgeois & Maurice and David Hoyle: Middle of the Road
If you’ve finally had enough of queer culture, if you’re bored of having to think all the time and if you’re still looking for some closure from that election result, then it’s probably worth checking...
View ArticlePride in London Roundup
Pride Arts Festival Next week is London’s Pride Week! Kylie’s going to be strutting around Hyde Park in hot pants (not just randomly, she is doing a gig there). And of course there’s the Pride...
View ArticleJust for Kicks
Stereo Kicks, the cutest musical mob since Bugsy Malone, will be swarming the stage this weekend at G-A-Y. We caught up with mono-Kick Tom Mann to chat about X Factor judges, band best friends and why...
View ArticleMother Black Cap’s Revenge
Squatters reopened Camden’s beloved Black Cap last Saturday, bringing one last eclectic night of performances to its historic stage. Dubbed as unofficial, unsanctioned and unapproved, Chris Godfrey...
View ArticleUK Black Pride 2015
UK Black Pride will be celebrating its tenth festival this year. Chris Godfrey speaks with the carnival’s director, Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, about why it’s still such an important event in the LGBT...
View ArticleTo the Ministry and Beyond!
The ultimate after-hours party, Beyond, is moving to a new home at the Ministry of Sound. Quite frankly, we can’t think of a more perfect place for a brand that takes music selection so seriously. We...
View ArticleDOM TOP’S PRE-PRIDE PREPARATORY GUIDE TO AWFUL SOCIAL INTERACTIONS
Every year it’s the same. Winter is awful. Spring is awful and wet and cold but everyone is really surprised, despite it being like that EVERY YEAR. Summer eventually rolls around and after weeks of...
View ArticleSH:24
The state-of-the-art new sexual health service that’s hassle-free and free of charge. With an efficient, no-nonsense approach to sexual health testing, this revolutionary new website is a much-needed...
View ArticleIBIZA PRIDE: 08/07/15 – 12/07/15
Aviator shades. Check. Denim hotpants. Check. Half-drunk bottle of Sainsburys Basics rum. Check. Sense of irony. Check. That checklist could only be for two events…Ibiza Pride or Haggerston Pride....
View Article#Outcome
QX Magazine chats to photographer Tom Dingley about his upcoming photographic portrait exhibition of LGBT people at the Pride Arts festival. Hey Tom, tell me about #outcome. What is it and what were...
View ArticleGetting Kinky with Franco
QX finally get round to taking a look at last year’s BDSM documentary, Kink, produced by James Franco. The idea of James Franco being involved in a movie about BDSM is one that would normally fill us...
View ArticleOnce More With Pride: LGSM March Again
Without last year’s critically acclaimed movie ‘Pride’ the story of LGSM would likely have been lost forever in the annals of queer history. Now, after a 30-year hiatus, the group have reformed and...
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