QX Magazine

You know them, you’ve seen them and you have definitely partied with them. James Egan talks to...The Spanish LGBT Community in London   LA PEQUEÑA,  “You never ask a lady her age” Part-time lesbian, full-time bitch What was it like growing up gay in Spain?  As a kid, before I ever hit puberty, I always knew I was “different”. While every kid thinks they are...

Holly Revell has established herself not only as a talented and insightful photographer, but also a prominent figure on the scene.   As well as working for QX Magazine on a regular basis, she has a host of projects, installations and concepts of her own. The latest of these is Transformations at Lime Wharf. Holly handpicked some of the London scene’s best...

Blimey, Easter weekend already! Any excuse to go hell for leather and cram in as much as possible... what I mean is live life to the full, and let me tell you there’s a lot of living to do. This weekend starts with Rebel Rebel presents... Bowie on Thursday 24th at The Phoenix in the West End. If anyone knows...

There’s a new private clinic in Central London catering specifically for gay men who have issues with chemsex and the various psychosexual complications that go along with it.   Which is so important and needed! As we all know by now, chemsex is a growing problem in our city’s gay community. It might be a little melodramatic to say it’s an epidemic,...

Dylan Jones’ roundup of new musics for people who listens to musics!   Icona Pop – Someone Who Can Dance So the weather was BEAUTIFUL on Sunday, which probably no-one realised because it was the day after Sink The Pink and everyone was in ex-council flats with the curtains drawn, spilling Glen’s vodka on Sam Smith’s iPad. I dragged myself out though, and...

After nearly 20 years of throwing some of London’s biggest and most outrageous parties, Popcorn stalwart, “Mother” and beloved promoter Chris Selby-Rickards aka “Big Gay Al” is retiring from club life and heading for foreign shores. So Popcorn are throwing him one hell of a leaving party on Monday 21st March! Before he gets too busy securing restraining orders from...

City Road’s den of delights, East Bloc, is turning five years old this Saturday 19th March and celebrating this fact with a barnstormer of a party! We caught up with promoter Martyn Fitzgerald about the last five years, the next five years and what’s happening this weekend.   What’s the most insane thing that’s happened at East Bloc in the last...

Well wouldn’t you just know it? The inimitable head honcho of XXL, Mr Mark Ames (seen here in his saucy holiday snaps), is having a birthday! How old, you ask? HOW RUDE. He’s obviously not a day over 32. Don’t believe us? Well then you better nip down to XXL on Saturday March 19th and ask him yourself, you...

On Saturday 19th March, super sexy Berlin queer party kids YO SISSY, are taking their sequin-spattered debauchery to (where else) THE GLORY!   Yes! The occasionally dignified Haggerston Riviera certainly won’t be so salubrious, with a gorgeous mess of drag queens, raucous recording artists and, of course, more gays than you can shake a glow stick at. Yo! Sissy are a yearly...

Mainstream society seems to be obsessed with young boys. The pinnacle of masculinity used to be upheld by chest-hair carpeted old school Hollywood stars like Sean Connery and Marlon Brando. They were the definition of sex symbols, the template we upheld for “the ideal man”.      Now, it seems, the younger and more hairless you are, the sexier you are. Tom...