QX Magazine

James Gaddas’ play is to say the least (and let’s get the use of a boxing metaphor out of the way early) a TKO, ‘a technical knockout’. From the commencement of round 1 and the ding of the fight bell, this is a one-man show of an exceptional standard. Jonny Collis-Scurll’s performance as Flynn is breathtaking. The tour de force of his momentous monologue grabs you from the start.

The tragic decline of Pulitzer-prizewinning playwright Tennessee Williams, who suffered flop after flop during the last twenty years of his life, is the inspiration for this new drama in which theatre eats itself.

This Sunday, The Show Must Go On promises to be a show-stopping party at Café de Paris in celebration of the life of Steve Elliott, one of the gay scene’s most influential club promoters who passed away last month. Cliff Joannou speaks to Steve’s partner, Ian Durston, about his plans for the event…

Tom Ford was hailed “the king of sex” for transforming the fortunes of Italian fashion house Gucci in the Nineties. He later went on to prove designers can sometimes break free of their sewing machine when he made his directorial debut in 2009 with his BAFTA award winning film A Single Man, with Colin Firth as his leading man. Today, the super manicured Texan presides over his own sultry global fashion label, ‘Tom Ford’, and admits he gets his best ideas when he is alone, naked in the bath. 

Unless you squirreled yourself away in Vauxhall over the weekend or avoided all mainstream media, you can’t have failed to notice that on Sunday more than 37,000 people of all shapes, sizes, age and persuasion gathered in Greenwich Park and subjected themselves to one of the most gruelling challenges a person can undertake.

We don’t know many a man of the homosexual persuasion who doesn’t instantly click with the fabulous Pam Ann (Caroline Reid on her real passport).

Fast-talking and top-selling Tupperware lady Dixie Longate rose to fame in 2007 when ‘Dixie’s Tupperware Party’ became an off-Broadway hit. She’s been going from strength-to-strength ever since, touring the world. Jason Reid caught up with the flame headed Alabaman this week, ahead of her run at the Soho Theatre…

Obituary by David McGillivray

Lee Dalloway attends the Stonewall gay hustings and watches the four main contenders discuss, debate, make promises and give the LGBT community a sycophantic rim-job like no other….

Take one house in Hackney with an empty shed at the back. Throw in a few trannies, a couple of tres cool East London DJs, a mirror ball and a makeshift studio set-up and… ta-dah…!