Friday 2nd October
CLUBS & EVENTS Le Coq at East Bloc: 217 City Road, Shoreditch, EC1V 1JN. 10.30pm-6am. £5 before midnight, £8 12am-1am, £10 1am-4am, £5 after. East Blocs weekly Friday homosocial. TONIGHT: Guy...
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CLUBS & EVENTS Clam Jam at Dalston Superstore: 117 Kingsland High St, E8 2PB. 9pm-2:30am. Free. The Premiere Thursday night for lesbians and their gay boyfriends. G-A-Y Porn Idol at Heaven:...
View ArticleBar News
Bloc Bar Bloc Bar’s got a brand-spanking-new late license! YEAAAAH! That means from Monday to Thursday, you can enjoy the PLEASURES of Camden’s newest LGBT bar until 2am, or on Fridays and Saturdays...
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Friday 2nd October: The Lipsinkers READ ALL ABAAHHT IT! It’s The Lipsinkers at the officially listed Royal Vauxhall Tavern (not just listed in QX, but listed, like, as an important building). “Camp,...
View ArticleHandsome
26/09/15: East Bloc proved once again that it’s the place to be if you’re after hot beats and hot boys in East London. Back for its regular monthly instalment, HANDSOME took over the busy main room and...
View ArticleRebel Bingo
Imagine if Bruce Forsyth and James Bond ran at each other really fast and created a super-hybrid bingo host. Imagine all the glitz of forties New York cross pollinated with Butlins in Lowestoft....
View ArticleXXL @ Pulse
26/09/15: Perhaps the last weekend of September surprising us with some serious sunshine meant that when night fell last Saturday, London’s men were still on full steam. It certainly seemed that way at...
View ArticleBear Hug
25/09/15: It had been a while since I’d gotten a bit rough and ready with my ursine brethren, so anticipation was high for the launch of Bear Hug at Bloc Bar. Trying my best to disguise the fact that...
View ArticleComptons
26/09/15: Chunky thighs, huge pecs, big rough hands, playing with balls…there seems to be a lot of crossover between the Six Nations Rugby and the clientele of the Grand Dame of Soho, Comptons. On...
View ArticleTop Motorbike Moments in Pop
This is our motorbike issue, so start your engines and sling a leg over! It’s all about chrome, distressed leather and sputtering pistons. When you put it like that it’s not surprising that gay bikers...
View Article#JULIASAYS…
Fashion, art, leisure… one rolls into the other at this time of year in olde London Town, as we head into the month of October. London Fashion Week went with a bang in September (never seen so much...
View ArticleJumpers for Goal Posts
On Tuesday, 22nd September I made the long old trek to the Putney Arts Centre to see Jumpers for Goal Posts, a play detailing the goings-on of an LGBT five-a-side pub football team, Barely Athletic....
View ArticleOn The Road with The Gay Bikers
QX magazine got all greasy and oiled up with The Gay Bikers Motorcycle Club. We love a biker. It’s something about the smell of petroleum and burning rubber. The sound of revving exhaust pipes and...
View ArticleAloha O’Hara!
Runner up of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season Four and one of the shows most explosive and entertaining queens ever, as Phi Phi O’Hara prepares to make her UK debut this month bigger, stronger and bolder than...
View ArticleLIFE OUTSIDE LONDON: MILAN
In our next instalment looking at nightlife outside our fair capital, we take a sleazyjet across the continent for a little jaunt round Italian fashion capital Milan. Our tour guide for this...
View ArticleThe Gay Biker Starter Course
Getting around London is getting a bit much these days; cramped buses, sweaty tubes, people rubbing against you in the carriages. QX’s very own Steve Gregory decided enough was enough; the only way...
View ArticleGilét’s Play
I’ve been an Ellie Goulding fan from day dot, and even when she dropped her folky British roots and started laying down that commercial cheese, I still thought she was better than Warburton’s. ‘On My...
View ArticleGlory Aid
Get off Grindr! Press mute on FKA Twigs! Hit pause on episode 2 of Scream Queens! Kick Smiley Vyrus off your sofa! Sit down, pay attention, and LISTEN, because this is important. Total. Fucking....
View ArticleDavid Hoyle: Future Perfect
Late September in the year 2015, and three weeks on from a leadership election in which 250,000 people voted for a relatively unknown, left-wing back bench MP (an early 200/1 rank outsider) to become...
View ArticleBIG BOOM! THEORY
There’s something big brewing in Vauxhall. BOOM! is the new daytime party from those party maestros at Orange Group, ready to shake you to your core. We caught up with promoter Steven Artis to get the...
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