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Little Ku
17/11/18: The So Hoes were out on Friday night, we’ll say that much. Giving us central London gay were the damn FIT crowd over at...
George and Dragon
2/11/18: The George and Dragon is the DEFINITION of a gay pub. Friday night we met up with a few friends for a couple...
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Too Funky: A Night of George Michael
16/11/18: You know what, we really bloody love some George Michael. Our stonking night at the Eagle really reminded us how much we love him....
BeefMince
16/11/18: YES, BeefMince. Yet again you delivered us all that fuzzy bear debauchery we’ve come to expect when this night finally comes back to the...
XXL Lumberjack
17/11/18: There’s something about XXL that we just can’t stay away from, like that guy you dated for a while where the sex was just...
Baby Wars
09/11/18: Crikey! The Glory was nutty as always on Friday night, as Baby Lame and Grace Shush slap bang walloped their way up Kingsland Road...
Beyond – The 16th Birthday
10/11/18: “Omg, like literally, Saturday night was like, Beyond” squawked the skinny blonde girl standing next to us in line for our hangover Starbucks. But...
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Friday 23rd November
Carpet Burn’s FEUD: 10th Birthday Party
Birthdays, birthdays, birthdays! So many birthdays at this time of year! Why? Maybe it’s because people have...
Bits & Pieces
Hadestown Review – ‘There is promise in this production that you don’t quite expect...
If you’re in on what’s what on the musical theatre scene then the word Hadestown has probably been buzzing around your peripherals for a...
GAYS, here’s how to make the most of rainy weather
Just because it's raining on your pride parade doesn't mean you should lock yourself indoors to swipe yourself to the end of Tinder! Get...
QX Meets… queer Asian dancer Mavin Khoo
Recognised internationally as a dance artist who's breathing new life into traditional Indian dance, as well as breaking new ground with his contemporary work,...
VIDEO: Behind the scenes of the Underwear Shoot
Oft. Hottie alert. Come behind the scenes of our underwear shoot.
Goddamn, these boys are cute. We here at QX thought you'd enjoy getting up...
The 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,...
Drag & Cabaret
Thoughts & Overshares From Mrs Moore
The drag disaster talks bingo, booze and Jane Mcdonald
There’s been enough hollow thoughts and prayers to last a lifetime, so we think it’s time to...
Drag Queen Bingo: a review
Many a Sunday afternoon has been seen in with binging on RuPaul’s Drag Race, surrounded by snacks on the sofa, nursing the biggest and...
Cabaret: Poppycock
Jason Reid chats to Poppycock about DRAG and INSPIRATION
Smiley, happy dragling Poppycock is one of those characters that lights up a room and a...
Cabaret: Cookie Monstar
Jason Reid meets the crumbly queen herself!
Cookie Monstar is the ray of sunshine the drag scene needs in 2018. This seasoned queen has performed...
Preview: How To Catch A Krampus
Sink The Pink. Where to even start with these fab bitches. They’ve taken over the world a little bit. Usually, people taking over the...
Fashion & Grooming
Look Good, Feel Gorgeous
Tony Flynn’s Christmas gift guide
Christmas Gift Guide
Here we go again, it’s Christmas! Gifting is always a minefield, especially with clothes - if you get...
The Underwear Special – Cybil, Sean and Darren model this season’s hottest brands!
Oh look, a gay magazine doing an underwear special *Miranda Priestley voice* groundbreaking.
No but seriously though, sometimes, there’s nothing wrong with an underwear special!...
Look Good, Feel Gorgeous – Men’s Fashion Trend: The Lumberjack
Tony Flynn on how you can shop the lumberjack look!
Whether you’re a rugged regular at XXL, a finger-tapping SCRUFF woof’er or simply someone who...
Look Good Feel Gorgeous – Essential supplements for a gorgeous body and mind!
Tony Flynn runs through this season’s hottest trends!
Essential Supplements: Feeling Good From the Inside Out
The vast majority of us will get all the small...
Look Good, Feel Gorgeous – Here are the top 5 men’s fashion retailers in...
Top 5 Men’s Fashion Retailers Online: Your go-to fashion fix
Who wants to schlep bags from an overcrowded store when you could shop from the...
Health & Wellbeing
What does HIV Testing Week mean in 2018?
We hear from HIV care nurse Mike Spall-Hancy
Despite the struggle against increasing government cuts to services, London’s sexual health clinics still provide some of...
HIV Testing Week
The Terrence Higgins Trust on this year’s most significant week for HIV prevention
Like it or not, gay and bi men are one of the...
Third US man contracts HIV while on PrEP
In San Francisco, Doctors have diagnosed a man who was on PrEP with HIV.
Coming as the third instance of a HIV diagnosis for a...
An Epidemic of Singledom in the Over 45
You may have been thirty, flirty and thriving, but now in your late forties you couldn’t get a guy to stick around. Over in...
Eating ass is causing an outbreak of STIs in gay men…
Shigella. Never heard of it? Well you should've. It's weirdly making a comeback in men who love a bit of rimming. It can be...
LGBTQI & Community
We Get Battered with Lanah P!
A fish & chip shop, an 80s pop sensation…what’s not to love?!
There’s a hidden gem in Covent Garden. At first glimpse, it’s just another...
QX Meets… Chappy
Chappy’s Head of Brand Sam Dumas on why we need to be kinder to each other online
In an internet landscape of execrable vitriol and...
Witch in our midst: Meet the real witches on London’s queer scene!
Words by Dylan B Jones
Think you’ve never met a witch? THINK AGAIN! They’re more prevalent than you might think.
London’s full of ‘em! Thought that...
WATCH: Police use tear gas to protect pride parade
Pride is a protest. Often times the revolutionary aspect of our Pride celebrations is forgotten in its revelry and commerce. For the queer people of...
Gender Recognition Act
Shon Faye talks us through proposed reforms to the law, that could make life a lot easier for trans people
So Shon, what do you...
Music & Books
QX Meets… emerging queer pop artist Aaron Porter
Having toiled away inconspicuously on his music, Porter finally releases his debut single ‘BOY’, which was met with instant praise online. QX caught up...
QX Meets… Toby Corton & His Band By Chance
This singer-songwriter blends strands of Soul, Jazz and R’n’B with a British sense of languid ennui. Having beguiled the Pride crowd from the Trafalgar...
QX Meets… Bright Light Bright Light
From a little welsh town to touring with Sir Elton John, Rod Thomas has made quite the splash as Bright Light Bright Light. We...
Top Five moments from Madonna’s Met Gala Performance…
We are not worthy of the pure light that is Madonna. She had her diamond jubilee of living yesterday, but as a queen she...
It’s #BookLoversDay! Here are five books every gay man should read
Books, books, books. Us queers love them. It's strange how we've come into our own just as the book has fallen out of favour....
Parties & People
Preview: The RVT Panto
Aladdin’s lamp just got camp!
SHE’S BEHIND YOU! Ooh, we love a panto dears. They’re just the right mix of naff, camp and nutty. There’s...
Preview: WE Pink
Clubbing leviathans WE Party celebrate their eighth birthday at one of London’s biggest venues
Woooo! It’s WE Party time. Haven’t heard of WE Party? Well...
JULIASAYS – Discerning scene musings from the princess of East London
Hi everyone! Oh, it’s all go isn’t it...
Time for an exhibition this week, as "Mavericks" by photographer Peter Ashworth officially launches on 16th November...
Preview: Beyond Joy
Clubbing leviathans Beyond celebrate sixteen years
“Beyond Joy, is to celebrate their sixteenth birthday party. SIXTEEN YEARS of naked torsos, inexplicable glitter, and brain-bending neon...
#JULIASAYS – Discerning scene musings from the princess of East London!
I always want to go everywhere! Luckily, I get to tell you all about everything and everyone here. Have you noticed how many great...
Politics & History
Trump cuts almost $6m from HIV/AIDS program
In an attempt to cover the cost of children who were left without their parents under Trump's administration, money will be cut from funding of HIV/AIDS...
India legalizes homosexuality, in a landmark ruling for an estimated one fifth of the...
In a landmark ruling for LGB+ people in India, the Supreme court has overturned a ban on consensual same-sex relations. The ban on same-sex intercourse...
Blood Diamond Diana – We caught up with the artist behind the art
If you’ve scrolled down your Twitter feed this week, you can’t have missed a portrait of Princess Diana which made quite the splash. Using...
Twinks4Trump founder dropped as White House correspondent
Lucian Wintrich, a founder of the Twinks4Trump group, as been dropped as a press correspondent in the White House after links to white nationalists...
Anti-Trans ‘Pussy Church’ given Tax Exempt status
TREF is the word. The controversy of the Pride in London Parade last month in which a crowd of anti-trans demonstrators were given the go-ahead...
Stage & Screen
Review: Briefs at Leicester Square Spiegeltent
A glittering spectacle of cam originality
London’s dragerazzi and transvestite throng wiggled into Leicester Square’s rackety Spiegeltent last week for the opening night of Briefs...
Hadestown Review – ‘There is promise in this production that you don’t quite expect...
If you’re in on what’s what on the musical theatre scene then the word Hadestown has probably been buzzing around your peripherals for a...
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Review – straight-washing and telenovella twists
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By Dylan B Jones
Right from its rain-whipping, thestral-careening start, the most recent cinematic foray into the Potterverse is certainly one thing…confusing. In fact, as...
A Star Is Born…but like, is it actually good though?
Jack Cullen muses on Gaga’s already notorious smash hit cinema venture
This past month, we put Netflix on pause and clobbered down the street to...
Preview: How To Catch A Krampus
Christmas just got creepy!
Those deranged drag creatures from Sink The Pink are here with an evening of theatrical wonderment. This year they’re schooling the...
Travel
Freddie Mercury: Inspired by Munich, Germany – A city that can really rock you.
WIN ! : You could soon be strolling through a fabulous LGBT Christmas Market in Germany. German National Tourist Office invites you to get...
How To Survive A Family Holiday
The sun’s out, Alexa Chung’s ditched her trenchoat in favour of a quirky sheer playsuit, and it’s getting worryingly close to FAMILY HOLIDAY TIME.
That...
Six awesome Vegas gay bars you have to see!
Las Vegas! The city that rose from the Nevada desert in a towering burst of flickering neon, glittering casinos and self-consciously glamorous hotels.
Over the...
Nude Resorts – The Best In No-Clothing Relaxation and Light-Packing Travel
If you really want to inject excitement into your relationship or push the boundaries, clothing optional leisure resorts are the way to go. You...
A Queer Guide To Las Vegas
A Brief History of Las Vegas and The Fruit Loop
Since the official incorporation of the city back in 1911, Las Vegas has undergone a...
Longer Read
QX Meets… queer Asian dancer Mavin Khoo
Recognised internationally as a dance artist who's breathing new life into traditional Indian dance, as well as breaking new ground with his contemporary work,...
Firebrands in Frocks: The Radical Drag Queens of The Gay Liberation Front
On July 1st 1972, over 700 LGBT demonstrators made history by marching through London for the first official Pride carnival. It was the largest...
Unsung 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...
Growing Up Gay and Muslim
Ardent followers of Islam often harbour negative attitudes towards homosexuality. In most of the Muslim-majority world homosexual activity is illegal, carrying the death penalty...
Popular Features
GAYS, here’s how to make the most of rainy weather
Just because it's raining on your pride parade doesn't mean you should lock yourself indoors to swipe yourself to the end of Tinder! Get...
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Review – straight-washing and telenovella twists
**
By Dylan B Jones
Right from its rain-whipping, thestral-careening start, the most recent cinematic foray into the Potterverse is certainly one thing…confusing. In fact, as...
We Get Battered with Lanah P!
A fish & chip shop, an 80s pop sensation…what’s not to love?!
There’s a hidden gem in Covent Garden. At first glimpse, it’s just another...