QX Magazine

Dylan Jones soaked up the vibes at London Pride’s sizzling Sunday party for the BME LGBT community.   On Sunday, pretending as hard as I could that my hangover didn’t exist, I dug out my best bandana, pulled on my most frayed denim shorts, made sure there definitely WASN’T any Iggy Azalea on my iPod and skipped down to Vauxhall for...

Shangela is one of RuPaul’s Drag Race’s most iconic personalities. One of the greatest moments in the show’s history was when she burst out of a box at the beginning of Season Four as a repeat contestant, after effortlessly annoying the shit out of everyone in season three.   Often dismissed as a ‘loudmouth’ and ‘unpolished’, underneath the sass, the...

Celibate superstar Virgin Xtravaganzah brought a sparkling, scintillating, stressfully salubrious show to the super-edgy East London venue with her Gods & Monsters show last week. Sweeping onto the stage in a blasphemously fashionable religious ensemble that would put Lady Gaga’s Judas video to shame, she regaled the increasingly disorientated crowd with an increasingly insane amalgamation of performance, song and...

The ongoing Arthole series finally saw the work of series curator Morris Monroe reach the Superstore’s hallowed walls. Monroe conceived and guided the project into being, dedicated to the exposure of a new queer artist each month, and previous centrepieces have included graffiti-esque-paint-and-words Patrick Church and body-preoccupied BJ Broekhuizen. This month, Monroe’s work gives a linear journey of form,...

What’s in store for the big boys this year at XXL Pride? Bigger? Badder? BEARIER? XXL is all about one club fits all! We are all for one and one for all - as long as you leave your attitude at the door, you dance like nobody’s watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, you sing like nobody’s listening and...

Nieko Strobel is the sparkling smile behind Ku Bar’s Sambuca-spangled success. He puts the Ku in KUrageous and the Bar in wunderBAR! He’s also got a formidable tag-team behind him (so to speak). Among others, there’s fash mag slag Lady Lloyd, sizzling steak slice Rodrigo, and a harem of bar staff that would make Liz Hurley look up from...

This year’s Pride Survival Guide is brought to you QX’s very own vegetarian, half-American, Libertarian boy Friday, Dylan Jones.     Lube Lube is great for getting out of all sorts of tight spots. Or getting into them. Slide into Pride with a trusty sachet! Or a bottle, if you’re posh. Superdrug even does it in a tube, like toothpaste. Careful not...

Wow. It’s Pride already? Seems like just yesterday I was attempting to do a drunken back flip after too much sangria in Soho Square.   This is my first Pride issue as Scene Editor and I’m very excited to share it with you. Not least our amazing piece of cover artwork by Ego Rodriguez, which ties in nicely to this year’s...

Our Drag Race triumvirate is completed by a crowning jewel: Pearl. Our favourite queen named after an oyster-based by-product kindly took some time out of looking dangerously attractive and repeatedly clarifying the spelling of “flazéda” to answer some cheeky questions about Porn Idol, London Pride and pearl necklaces.   Hi Pearl! We like ‘Love Slave’. It’s very 5am-in-a-sling. What was your inspiration? I couldn’t...

The ultimate glamour toad! Dylan Jones had a word or five with drag race contestant Ginger Minj about her love for London, rhinestones and Geri Halliwell.   *Picks up Phone* Hello, Ginger Minj calling! Hi Ginger! Where are you calling from? Chicago. The windy city… Well I did have chilli for lunch. I was just about to say something like that but you beat me to it....