QX Magazine

It was November 2nd 2011 as I sat in the basement at G-A-Y Bar, proud that I was the one who volunteered to go first out of our group of four friends for the free HIV testing. I have OCD, so I would always get tested like clockwork every six months.

It’s fair to say that if your sexuality sits under the LGBT umbrella there’s a ‘coming out’ protocol to follow in our largely heteronormative world. But someone who identifies as gay and is also living with HIV can find they’ve broken down one closet door only to discover they are, in fact, still in the dark.

Fresh from co-promoting 2011’s most talked-about gay disco, Meat, Kris Di Angelis unveils his new club brand set to devastate a dance floor near you in 2012: WAR!

Is Joe Public – gay or straight – irredeemably thick? Though it’s beyond sad to even think it, beefballs worldwide still download, and pay for, the slop called pop in 2012!

Third gendered, ex-fashion model and fallen Catholic performer, La JohnJoseph, has fluttered from Berlin to New York to London for the last five years with his autobiographical shows.

28/01/12: Almost into the second month of 2012 – doesn’t time fly when you’re fucked off your face – and we hadn’t even taken a Saturday sojourn to one of our favourite bars!

28/01/12: It was sequins, soprano and high-powered stage presence this weekend at Heaven - with West End musical stars, Louise Dearman and Leanne Jones, taking to the stage.

28/01/12: With all the Spanish flavoured house flooding our shores, the gay scene has been lacking a harder edge for some time now, so we were at the front of the queue on Saturday for the first ‘Sharp Tidy’ at Protocol and Lightbox.

28/01/12: Though only a few minutes walk from Vauxhall tube station, a lesser gay venue could suffer teetering on the edge of Oval’s no-man’s land.

28/01/12: For bears and boys who like to hug them, things certainly got cuddley past their bedtime on Saturday night.