Raf Daddy
QX magazine caught up with bear DJ Raf Daddy ahead of his set at Brüt this weekend. Hello Raf! How’s life on the bear DJ scene? Hot and hairy. We’ve decided to ask you some (vaguely) bear-related...
View ArticleInterview: Adore Delano
Adore Delano is kind of amazing. Aside from being one of the most entertaining contestants Drag Race has ever seen, she also put out a total barnstormer of an album, full of bona-fide big jams and...
View ArticleComing Out/Cashing In
When is an artist advocating for the gay community and when are they simply capitalising on it? Former Disney virgin and current cock-tease Nick Jonas came to visit London last month, after generating...
View ArticleHits, Bits & Shits
Remember VV Brown? Yeah, no, you do, she had that song once. ‘Shark in the Water’? It goes like “baby, there’s a shark in the waterrr…la la” somethingsomething. Well, she’s actually really quite good...
View ArticleXXL presents Wayne G
08/08/2015: This is becoming a bit of a habit for the QX team on Saturday nights! After spending the day basking in the sun, we decided to go bask in the bears under the arches of Southbank. As if the...
View ArticleA:M
08/08/2015: 4a.m. on a Saturday morning and while the rest of London sleeps there is one place in London that’s just waking up; Vauxhall! I made my way to one of Orange Nation’s longest running...
View ArticleBloc Bar
08/08/2015: BLOC BAR TIME AGAIN. It’s our new favourite. Get on the tube to Camden (or wake up there after the night before) and have a lovely little libation at the city’s newest, hottest homosexual...
View ArticleThe LipSinkers at the RVT
07/08/2015: Last Friday night the RVT welcomed back Edinburgh Fringe festival darlings and alternative four-piece drag troupe The LipSinkers. I spat out my double vodka and orange when they careened...
View ArticleGreenwich Street Party
08/08/2015: The Greenwich Street Party is quite simply one of the highlights of the calendar year for Greenwich (scratch that, London). I mean, it’s the one day of the year where tall drag fantastics...
View ArticleThe Unstoppable Conchita Wurst
Conchita Wurst is a force to be reckoned with, a whirlwind in a ball-gown. Fresh off the back of releasing a book and an album, she’s continuing her unstoppable, sequin-spangled rise to success. Chris...
View ArticleFucking Men
There was a tangible air of anticipation as the lights dimmed at the start of Fucking Men at the gorgeous little King’s Head Theatre in Angel. The anticipation was mainly down to a RATHER suggestive...
View Article#JULIASAYS…
Last month I had a chat with John Lydon from notorious punk era band The Sex Pistols and PiL who’ve just announced their 10th studio album What The World Needs Now out in September. He raised the...
View ArticleMiss Hope Springs: ‘Queen of Fools’
A decadent energy swept through the dimly-lit Royal Vauxhall Tavern as Miss Hope Springs took to the stage with her bespoke band on ‘tube strike Thursday’. Regardless of the fact that London’s main...
View ArticleThe Women Behind the Gay Scene
Working on the scene can prove challenging at the best of times. Guestlists to sort out. Madonna songs to remix, luxury flats to ward off. And all while you’ve got Lady Lloyd hanging off the end of the...
View ArticleThe White Swan’s Big 30th Birthday Bash
We LOVE a big birthday bash here at QX. And not just because of the alliteration (although we do almost always adore alliteration). This time it’s the White Swan! It’s their 30th! She’s getting old....
View ArticleIt’s faggy, it’s ok… It’s FAGGY OKAY!
FAGGY OKAY is the weekly free karaoke meltdown in The Glory’s infamous boozy basement, The Hole. We asked its host and resident loudmouth Ginger Jonson to give us a rundown of the House Rules to give...
View ArticleRebel Rebel’s Top Throwbacks
It’s queer indie night Rebel Rebel’s last night on Saturday! It makes us want to down a bottle of whiskey or smash a guitar over our heads or something. Oh well, we’re wearing skinny jeans. That’s...
View ArticleEgg Plant: Part Girl
HE-HE-HELLO. And welcome to the most quotable and secretly queer film you’ve probably never seen. I say “secretly” because it’s ostensibly about Mary, the eponymous (and heterosexual) party girl of the...
View ArticleWhat Indie Did Next: Alan Bonner – Talia
We were wondering around John Walter’s new art installation Alien Sex Club, when we bumped into Alan Bonner. A fey, tattooed character with blonde curls and blue eyes, we weren’t surprised to be told...
View ArticleUrban World Summer Jam 22/08/15
After a sari-swishingly, boombox-burstingly, carnival-crashingly successful year, the geniuses behind Urban World are hitting London again for a sizzling summer party. In an exploding glitter cannon...
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