QX Magazine

You & I is a joint German/Polish venture from director Nils Bokamp and actors Eric Klotzsch and George Taylor. It’s a dreamily engaging gay road movie, evocatively focused on sun, summer and sex.    It’s the story of a straight photographer, Jonas and his gay best friend Philip. Jonas is broody and withdrawn, while Philip is giggly and likes running around...

Hola mijo! Exilio LGBT Latin Dance club is delighted to announce that after nineteen successful years of bringing the finest Latin sounds to London, they’re relocating to Soho!   Exilio’s new home is Muse Soho, a stylish club just a short walk from Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus, with fantastic finger menu, cocktails, wine list and traditional Colombian drinks. Que rico! So,...

SO. This edition of Disco, Blisters & A Comedown is all about WORLD MUSIC. It can be found in the World Music section of HMV. Actually, that’s a ridiculous thing to say. Does HMV even exist anymore? It used to sell something called CDs, back in the early naughties. CDs were round, shiny things that you put in “CD player”...

Debbie is four years old! She’s having one totally  awesome party and we asked Debbie’s dynamo promoters Sina Sparrow and Bitchcakes to give us the skinny on it all.   “We’ve been doing Debbie for four years as of this month... It’s kind of unbelievable! We both really love female fronted music, girl groups and women singers, from the past and the...

That’s the ethos of Papa Loko, who will be celebrating their first full year of parties on Saturday 16th April. After a run of parties at Dalston Superstore, they’ve decided to focus on only a few special events throughout the year, and will be celebrating their 1st Birthday at a new Hackney home: Apiary Studios.   Underground and unashamedly progressive, The...

Photos by Joel Ryder Sierra is a model slash makeup artist slash drag queen slash creative concept. She splits her time between bending over in the East Bloc smoking area and deathdropping to Work Bitch in the tranny corner of G-A-Y Late. She knows the bedrooms of Bethnal Green like the back of her hand, and there’s nothing she hasn’t done...

After several visits to the UK for club and bar shows, RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Jinkx Monsoon and best friend Major Scales are readying themselves for their West End theatre debut this April with The Vaudevillians. Jason Reid and Jinkx chatted Drag Race, instant fame and the U.S elections this week....   Hey Jinkx, how’s life been treating you since...

Our favourite self-certified ‘superstar’ and ‘global’ ‘phenomenon’, A Man To Pet, is back for another two-floor blowout at Dalston Superstore in honour of, well… himself.   Yes, that tactile male will be swinging from a vine, pelting you with ripe mangos and painting your faces like a baboon’s arse at his fabulous Jungle Party. There will be animal print, there will...

In a slight diversion from their usual fun, camp, all-singing all-dancing productions, Above The Stag are playing host to a hard-hitting drama about the lives of two young boys living in Iran under Sharia rule.   > Based on true events, Haram Iran is a coming-of-age story of 15 year old Mahmoud and Ayaz, growing up in a small town in Iran....

Looking back, reminiscing about times gone by isn’t about living in the past, it’s just acknowledging the things that make you what you are today. I’m a great fan of a #tbt (throw back Thursday). Your online posts are enlightening and fascinating! Whatever you do today is a memory tomorrow.   This week we’re about to make some new memories with...