QX Magazine

Move over divas of the music world, there are two new Queens Of Pop in town.

The Clapham Street Party returns this Saturday 22nd June! For all you newcomers to the scene, here’s a guide to what to expect…

I had heard a lot about David Hoyle but never actually seen his shows, so I attended his ‘Guiding Light’, the first of his weekly run at the RVT, with an open mind.

17/06/13: The drag queens, the trannies and the glamorous all went to Heaven last night.

16/06/13: Galloping through the doors for the final night of the Official Summer Rites Warm up weekend, we were braying to get our drink on to special guest Honey Djon.

15/06/13: When a New Yorker swings into town, takes charge of the decks and rocks us London revellers, there can only be one suspect and we’re pointing every finger at Honey Dijon.

15/06/13: Even in a city like London, we sometimes forget our street cred and find ourselves being a tad too metrosexual for our own good.

14/06/13: After a busy week in the QX office, we weren’t quite sure if we’d have the energy for our usual weekend of partying and even considered a Friday night indoors.

13/06/13:It is bizarre how many straight boys want to strip in front of a gay audience.

14/06/13:  Why does the tube journey to Brewers, always lead to (extremely loud) tipsy impressions of TOWIE tarts?

15/06/13:  It’s such a shame that going for ‘one’ drink always turns into two or three (dozen). Actually it’s not so much a shame as it is fabulous.

Sharon Needles is the mistress of the macabre, the famously ghoulish looking drag queen who went on to conquer RuPaul’s Drag Race and America’s viewing public when she triumphed in Season 4 of the revered show. Her quick wit and brash, but endearing, confidence has won her legions of fans, including a certain Lady Gaga. Here, QX’s Anthony Gilét and Super Electric Party Machine’s Larry Tee got together to find out more about her sickening fabulousness before her appearance at Mr Tee’s SEPM later this month…

If you haven’t heard about Summer Rites yet, than maybe you’re just not in the cool crowd, but don’t worry about it; there’s gonna be an entire tent dedicated to cool at Summer Rites: Pride in the Park. The Bloc Party, Bootylicious and R & She are hosting the Urban World tent and playing all the coolest urban beats for the cool, the uncool, the hot, the not and everything in between, to shake their bum bums with like minded urban urchins!

Trenton Ducati is the superstar porn actor who gets pulses racing in boys and men across the world alike. With a rugged jawline, a masculine face and a chiseled body, he goes at his versatile porn scenes like the power motorbike he’s named after. Ahead of his headlining appearance at Hustlaball, QX caught up with him to see what the hype was all about. Needless to say we were pleasantly satisfied! 

At the weekend Team G-A-Y/QX took on the mother, and muddiest, of all obstacle courses – Tough Mudder. A twelve mile running course through rough terrain, with no less than twenty-one obstacles to tackle along the way. These included ice, fire, water, more water, more fucking water, a LOT of crawling through mud, swimming under pitch black tunnels, swinging across insane monkey bars, leaping across burning logs, scaling sheer pitch walls and getting electrocuted by live wires. 

Walking into the ICA last Friday night you’d be forgiven for thinking the streets of Dalston must be dead and deserted, for it seemed the entirety of the East End gay massive had descended upon the pristine white walls of the gallery’s bar in their caps, studs, boots and peacock colours. And the reason for this invasion? Why, Vogue Fabrics’ live art/cabaret installation night, Icy Gays. 

After seven weeks, forty five heat stages all over the country, over sixty competing acts, hours of judges deliberation and four sensational semi finals, just four lucky acts have made it to the Grand Final of Drag Idol UK 2013. Jason Reid speaks to all four finalists exclusively this week...  

07/06/13:  “It’s Friday, it’s Friday…” Just kiddin’, the day you hear us singing along to that will be the day you see us playing catch with a ball made of rusty razor blades.