HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL MY LOVELY QUEERS!

This has been a busy year. We’ve been very, very busy. Between re-designing our website, launching two new iPhone apps and generally keeping on top of the gay scene and up-to-date on the community goss’, QX hasn’t lost sight of the world’s wider issues:

As we went to print on this magazine, North Korea’s charismatic leader, Kim Jongil, passed away. He will be better known by lesser-educated gays for his starring role in Team America, as Mr Magoo from the popular 60s cartoon series and his Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning portrayal of Sophia Petrillo in The Golden Girls.

In response to the Occupy Wall Street campaign and the St Paul’s tent village, QX is all for an “Occupy Soho” protest for the gays. We’ll have a few haphazardly constructed tents, a cabaret stage and an over-priced champagne bar. We can throw in a speech by Peter Tatchell, and even invite Stonewall along to fly a rainbow flag. Maybe we’ll have a couple of portaloos. Although we fear somebody may have beaten us to it, after all, isn’t that what they try to pass off as “Pride” these days?

We did wonder whether we’d see our own gay scene take on the ‘Arab Spring’ in which rebellious DJs and oppressed drag queens would rise-up and overthrow any tyrannical club promoters. Fleeing the angry mobs, we envisaged said promoters would hide out in Ibiza where nobody can tell the difference between them and the other queens on the run out there. It didn’t happen, but there’s always hope for next year.

There was looting and riots this summer as the UK’s population cowered indoors while the streets of London burned. While all that was happening, I was partying at Circuit Festival in Barcelona completely unaware of the fuss back home. Yes, I too can be an ignorant stupid homosexual at times. We are all fallible. I did get a lovely tan though.

QX can’t quiet make its mind up about the Olympics yet. Yes, we anticipate a whole heap of hot, fit athletes flocking to London and filling our bars and clubs with toned physiques, also giving the economy a much-needed financial boost… but we’re not yet certain what the best sauna days will be when they are here? All suggestions welcome…

The question of whether there is life in outer space will finally be answered when QX goes where no gay has gone before, travelling beyond the final frontier to interview a bunch of queens living happily outside the M25. Who said we weren’t at the forefront of journalism?

One final thought on the problems facing the Eurozone: I find it quite amusing how Germany lost two world wars after it tried to conquer the continent in the first half of the 20th century, yet has still managed to end-up calling the shots in Europe today.

Oh I know, another flippant queen laughing at the issues that are tearing the world to pieces and turning a blind eye to impending apocalypse. But, as I’ve said before, when the world is falling apart, and the news is full of doom and gloom, why not throw on a smile, have a laugh and go out and dance!

Heath Ledger said it best as The Joker: “Why so serious…?”

 

Cliff Joannou

EDITOR

• With huge thanks to all our amazing staff at QX, both in the office and freelance, for all their hard work!

 

 

 

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