QX Magazine

Brighton Pride is set to have its most spectacular year ever with a main stage line-up that will impress even the most critical pop pundits! Programming director Dulcie Danger delivers her guide to a sensational smorgasbord of pitch-perfect performers…

The good and the great from every corner of our ever growing continent have been pruning, preening and perfecting their performances for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Following a hugely successful win for Sweden last year, the land of ABBA welcomes the world to Malmo for what is still the campest, kitschest and most colossal song competition in the world.

Having already offended everyone in the New World, The Kinsey Sicks crash-land in London for their debut UK performance this May (20th-24th). Their week long show: “America’s Next Top Bachelor Housewife Celebrity Hoarder Makeover Star Gone Wild” will run at XXL Bear Pride and also marks their 20th anniversary. Described as America’s favourite dragapella beauty-shop quartet, they’ve toured internationally, recorded eight albums, been the subject of two films and even appeared on America’s Got Talent. Jason Reid spoke to Rachel, Winnie, Trixie and Trampolina to find out more about the very crazy world of the Kinsey Sicks...

Jason Reid chats to NYC drag glamazon Miss Peppermint who has been “servin’ it up” since she was a mini mint, dressing-up as Wonder Woman and Boy George as a small child. It’s in her genes! This month she wings her way to our shores to give the London folk a taste of her fierce talents during XXL Bear Pride Week and at As One in the Park...

Bear Pride is back for 2013 - bigger, butcher, bolder and more beary than ever before! Promoter Mark Ames gives QX the bear essentials for a week of activity…

Incite! poetry evening at the Phoenix Arts Club is a night of spoken word, alternative performance art and open-mic poetry, run in association with the Camden LGBT Forum, devoted to featuring all from the gay community in London. As a minority group of modern society it seems we have a lot to speak about, particularly at this point on the verge of equal rights, and these poets certainly made their voices heard. 

11/05/13: It seems Dalston is not just about the hipsters and homos these days.

11/05/13: On any visit to Ku Bar we like to pop in to the top bar, then to the middle before staggering down to Ku Klub.

11/05/13: It’s that time of the month again already! And we were starving for Dish’s fourth instalment of the year.

10/05/13: How we’ve missed the gorgeous star of some of our favourite DVDs and 2011 winner of the “Best Ass”, Jay Roberts, and Soho’s sexiest night, Play>Time.

11/05/13: Backstage at G-A-Y last Saturday resembled the set of a ‘Girls Gone Wild’ video shoot with a veritable posse of scantily clad babes cavorting over leather sofas, the new up and coming queen of pop Bleona (Google her – she’s tipped to be mahoosive) and our very own Jeremy Joseph playing the role of Hugh Hefner!

09/05/13: Titti La Camp opened the second heat of the Two Brewers search for a Drag Idol semi finalist last Thursday - Karen Carpenter style. The guru of the competition was clearly ‘on top of the world’ and raring to go after an audience member randomly offered to lick the remaining chocolate off her teeth, after the opener (kinky!).

11/05/13: Between Kazbar’s summer street party, Soho Gyms’ six packs and the Common’s shirtless sun worshippers, it’s fair to say Clapham is one of London’s gayest hot spots.

On Sunday 9th June, Team G-A-Y will attempt the Tough Mudder challenge with a view to raising vital funds for the Elton John AIDS Foundation. Sounds simple? Not so much! When you find out what’s actually involved, it’s no walk in the park. 

Club host, DJ and scene star Dusty O flew out to Tokyo for a very special one-off gig…

Ku Bar is known all over gay London as one of the swanky, stylish bars where the boys are hot to trot, and where everyone on the scene wants to be seen.

From a Bank Holiday club event at Fire to a massive outdoor festival in Victoria Park,  As One is all grown-up now! QX caught up with two of the brains behind the clubbing beast, Mark Williams and Verity Mayes, to find out more about the big day that you won’t want to miss at the end of May…