London has the world's most diverse late night gay scene. Mainly located around its three gay villages - Soho, Shoreditch and Vauxhall - there's a gay nightclub to suit every taste, with music policies ranging from R&B and pop to full-on funky house via more underground, edgier sounds. There are, of course, many one-off and special events that happen around town to keep a look out for. And if it's something more 'adult' that you're after, then there's a whole heap of men-only and fetish special interest clubs out there, too.
SCHOOLZ OUT AT TED’S PLACE
19/04/2012: Last Thursday saw Ted throw one of his famous parties with naughty school girls and boys coming out to play at the Schoolz Out Disco Party.
ATTITUDE’S 18TH BIRTHDAY: CLUB WITH ATTITUDE
21/04/12: It really was all about One Leicester Square last Saturday as popular gay magazine Attitude celebrated its 18th birthday in huge style.
GIGOLO 1ST BIRTHDAY BASH
18/04/12: Our much-loved midweek soiree, Gigolo at The Shadow Lounge, threw an extra special bash last Wednesday to celebrate its first birthday.
G-A-Y FEATURING MARINA DIAMONDS
14/04/12: There seemed to have been a bubble of excitement leading up, throughout the week, to last Saturday.
WAR
14/04/12: Going to War for a second time in the space two months was never going to be easy. For a start, we had just licked our wounds and recovered from the onslaught that was Easter.
ENERGY BEARS
14/04/12: QX Club News braved a chilly Saturday night in Vauxhall as Energy Bears sent temperatures soaring for a roof-raising session at Barcode last weekend.
TRANNY TRASH
08/04/12: Easter Sunday saw us head to TrannyTrash at Dalston Superstore for what would be a great turn out of trannies from the across globe, with one flying in from New York to celebrate a birthday - now that’s what we call dedication.
POPCORN: ROYAL HOUSE 10TH BIRTHDAY
09/04/12: We love rule breakers and Popcorn doesn’t fall short of breaking every rule in the book. For one, it’s a school night and Easter Monday saw Heaven bursting at the seams, as gays, guys and girls partied their end-of-the-long-weekend blues into oblivion.
1ST CLASS PORN STAR CLUBBING!
Alan X meets Gigolo pimps/promoters David & LA Hart on the eve of the club’s first birthday…
G-A-Y FOAM PARTY
07/04/12: We started Day 3 of our Easter Weekend G-A-Y marathon at G-A-Y Bar where we were the lucky recipients of a free chocolate egg! Ahh, the finest pleasures in life are the simplest. After swinging our handbags into G-A-Y Late to pick up the rest of our posse, it was off to G-A-Y’s main event at Heaven for us.
BOOSTER RECHARGED
08/04/12: The Vauxhall block got rockin’ for an all-night Easter bank holiday blast as scintillating scene doyenne, the glamorous Glendora, hit the tiles for the return of Booster at Barcode last weekend.
CARPET ‘THE BIG EASTER’ BURN
07/04/12: Easter Saturday at Eagle saw DJs Johnny Kalifornia and Simon Kilner on the decks for Carpet Burn’s latest session.
XXL: EASTER
07/04/12: Promoter Mark Ames packed in a rampaging horde of grizzly guyz as clubbing superpower XXL flexed its muscles for a monumental Easter blowout last weekend.
JUSTICE
07/04/12: The near-legendary club promoter behind such hallowed names as Factor 25, Action and Juicy, Andrew Harris chose an apt weekend for a comeback, resurrecting his ample talents in collaboration with GaydarRadio’s mighty Clubnation for the launch of Justice last Saturday.
XXL ‘RETROSPECTIVE’
31/03/12: XXL was channelling the Cher classic ‘If I Could Turn Back Time’ last Saturday as the main floor went all retro(spective) with Christian M mixing up the usual music policy to blend dance floor classics like Whitney’s ‘Million Dollar Bill’ (Freemasons remix) with Madge’s ‘Ray Of Light’ and the Guru Josh project’s ‘Infinity’ in a melange of classic funky commercial anthems that had the packed d:floor of muscle bears, fuller figured fellas and burly blokes bopping like crazy.
BURGER QUEEN: GRAND FINAL
29/03/12: When an invitation comes in from avant-garde cabaret terrorist, Scottee, to judge the final of the second Burger Queen contest alongside UK soul legend Lisa Stansfield, scene goddess Princess Julia, one Jasinta (RVT manager Jason Ried’s drag alter ego) and even Scottee’s mum (!) how could I decline?
PLAYTIME
31/03/12: All play and no work for these men! It’s a perfect match for a night of this name in the psychedelic underground lair of Lo-Profile, when Playtime meets the stunningly sizzling guys from Men at Play, with their rippling hard bodies sweating on the podiums like dancing Greek gods mounted on plinths gogo’ing the night away.
YOUR DISCOTEC NEEDS YOU!
After rulin’ Thursday nights in Soho during the Noughties, Discotec returns on Easter Thursday to take over the lofty heights of Brixton Club House. Cliff Joannou chats to promoters Adrian and Laurent C…
TONKER 9TH BIRTHDAY
23/03/12: Vauxhall’s long-running bijou bears bash hit the heights for a ninth birthday blowout as a rampaging rabble of hot hunks made it a Friday night to remember last weekend.
KU ‘MANHUNT PARTY’
23/03/12: As if things weren’t already hot enough! Ku Bar always have amazingly hot guys in there but this time the guys from Manhunt decided to come down and have a party just to spice things up a bit.
