QX Magazine

What makes gay art gay? What, exactly, separates Robert Mapplethorpe’s luscious anal portraits from Ruben’s bursting-at-the seams nudes? Why, sheer audacity and daring, darlings. Never, ever content to lie back and be stuffed, stultified and mounted for England, the gay imagination takes risks to die for.   Why not? All pre-out-gay art had to lose was mediocrity. Forget unreadable trash by...

You know there’s a lot of these retrospectives going on, harking back to times which were apparently the best times to go clubbing. Everyone’s got an archive of photos and film footage, a veritable who’s who of clubbers from bygone decades. And yes I love looking at archives but why do people keep saying it’s never going to be as...

Homostash is celebrating Eurovision, hairy-lip-style, with a big old knees-up down at Dalston Superstore this Friday 13th May. They’ll be playing Euro delights upstairs and their signature fit techno downstairs with Brazil’s Paulo Tessuto. To get you in the mood, moustachioed maestro Tafkanik and Eurovision maven-cum-DJ Eureka are taking us through this year’s contestants. DOUZE POINTS.   Tafkanik: Hi Eureka, I...

DJ and producer from São Paulo, Paulo Tessuto travels the world taking his own party concept Capslock to clubbing institutions such as Berlin’s Tresor club, Sisyphos, Chalet, and Golden Gate, as well as holding down a residency at D.Edge. He is also about to launch his MEMNTGN label this month and gives up the lowdown on how he started, playing with...

Yes! A gay sailing club exists. It’s called the Sailing & Cruising Association, and it’s based all over the UK.   Its got over 450 members, and they link up virtually via the group’s website, and meet depending on where they live. With the summer approaching, sailing is a great past time to get on board with. It’s fun, it’s wholesome...

By Dylan Jones WELL, the last few days have been quite a major (MAYJOR) few days for music, so I can actually write about new releases! Which I haven’t done in ages. I know this column promises to be a “round-up of new music” but when the only new music is No by Meghan Trainor I just can’t bring myself to...

It’s a sunny Spring afternoon, and we’re in dusky private members venue The Phoenix Artists Club, with two hot gay French entrepreneurial twins. THATS not something you say every day is it.   Hot gay entrepreneurial twins are definitely worthy of an interview. But Pierre and Adrien Gaubert are more than just pretty faces. They’ve got an award-winning website that links...

No stranger to huge audiences, Ruby Murry took to the Britain’s Got Talent stage recently and was met with a wave of love after performing Nessum Dorma.   It was one of ‘those ‘ talent show moments. You know the type? Simon Cowell almost cracks a smile; random girl in the audience gasps, and then they crank up the big dramatic...

We’re continuing the theme of championing queer cult classics in our film section at the moment.   Last week it was Christina Ricci’s drawlingly cynical The Opposite Of Sex, and this week it’s Party Monster, the outrageous, surreal comedy/drama that captured a generation and helped shape club kid culture. Now to the more discerning amongst you, Party Monster might seem like an...

Who makes up the rules on what you can and can’t look like?   I like to think if you don’t like something about yourself why not change it, except nothing is quite that clear cut. Some people are always looking for the reasons why someone might go to extremes when really it’s up to the individual as to how they...