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Daddy Issues
14/04/18: Daddy Issues was LIT on Saturday night. Yeah, we’re saying ‘lit’ now. We’ve been to the clubs, we know what the kids say. Daddy...
XXL Rugby
14/04/18: Here’s something we’ll give you for free: the collective noun for a bunch of bears is a sleuth. There are certain exceptions when other...
Beyond Carnival
31/03/18: It was perhaps Beyond’s biggest night of the year yet on Saturday, as London’s creatures of the night descended for mid bank holiday shenanigans!...
Versayce
30/03/18: Eagle London was a marriage of dollar-doused decadence and Miami cool last Friday for the launch of new monthly party, VERSAYCE! As anyone who’s...
Orange
02/04/18: Day four of the Bank Holiday weekend and Vauxhall’s troops weren’t going to let anything as insignificant as ‘not having any sleep since last...
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What’s Hot This Week In Gay London
What's hot this week in gay London, you ask? Well, below we list the best gay club events and hottest gay bars to visit...
Bits & Pieces
The QX Weekly Playlist – SUMMER BANGERS
The QX Weekly Playlist - SUMMER BANGERS
Because it's summer now, apparently!
The sun's out, people are already collapsing into coleslaw on Hampstead Heath, and hitting...
QX Preview: Beefmince
Dan Prance and Argyris Georgopoulos (aka Silverhook) are the promoters of BEEFMINCE which runs every third Friday of the month at the iconic Royal Vauxhall...
The QX Weekly Playlist – PLAZTIK
There's a brand new party hitting Shoreditch tomorrow night and it's called PLAZTIK. It's happening at chintzy-boho bar/club Zigfrid, which is slap bang on...
Mobile Fun – More than Snake
Time was, the only fun we could have with cell phones was playing Snake on an underpowered Nokia. Since then, smartphones and enormous jump...
The QX Friday Playlist – Bank Holiday Bops
The first Bank Holiday of 2018 is in full swing, but of course, it's RAINING! BOOO! What we need is bops!
So here are some...
Drag & Cabaret
QX meets…Sonia
The Liverpool legend talks Eurovision, having hits and THAT French & Saunders sketch
She’s got the hits! She’s got the gays! She’s got the hair!...
Put Your Best Fruit Forward!
Jason Reid meets cabaret’s juiciest new star, Fruit!
Conceived at Micheal Twaits’ Art of Drag course, Fruit is the creation of Stevie Doherty. They’ve been...
QX meets…David Hoyle
Avant-guardian David Hoyle is a deeply fascinating artist, who has experienced life in many of its extreme forms. His disconcerting fusion of on stage...
Getting To Know Miss Krystal Ball
Serving up Magic FM drag vibes wherever she goes, Miss Krystal Ball is an artist who has a special fondness for the classic music...
Jump Down the Rabbit Hole with Eagle London!
Vauxhall’s den of debauchery is going all out this bank holiday weekend
Batten the hatches, gird your loins, and spread your wings (in whichever order...
Fashion & Grooming
Libidex’s BIG Winter Sale
Squeak into 2018 with a sexy new latex garment in your wardrobe
You’ve heard of Libidex before! They’re a fetish brand with a lust for...
Introducing Clapham’s Latest Gay Destination…Fetch!
The glitzy new gay superstore meeting all your fashion, fetish and fun needs!
There’s a brand new gay men’s fashion store coming to Clapham! Patsy...
QX London Men’s FASHUN Week Roundup
It seems like there’s a fashion week about once a month in London, and this month kicked off with London Collections Men, or MEN’S...
All we want for Christmas is MEO
Meo is a German company who specialise in wonderfully inventive, fun, and occasionally daunting fetish products and sex toys! Trade in sex products is...
Australian Lqd skincare launch into UK in Harrods
Lqd skincare will be stocked in the UK for the first time from June 1st onwards, with their premium men’s products exclusively available to buy at...
Health & Wellbeing
HIV is just a part of me…
Helping HIV positive men look after their health and live as fulfilling a life as possible
Most HIV awareness campaigns focus on prevention, which is...
Let’s talk about PrEP baby – We hear from a range of experts on...
The advantages and scientific validity of PrEP as an HIV prevention drug have been proven in numerous studies over the last few years. Recently,...
EDITOR’S LETTER: The PrEP Issue
This week, we’re putting a spotlight on the HIV prevention drug, PrEP. We don’t intend to preach, or intimidate, or instruct – merely to...
It’s tough to talk about sexual abuse! – We hear from LGBT therapist Stephen...
This year, we've seen more headlines about sexual abuse, assault, harassment or rape than ever before. As a therapist working with gay men, I...
Get tested this HIV testing week!
The lovely people at THT talk us through the importance of knowing your status.
This year’s National HIV Testing Week comes at the end of...
LGBTQI & Community
The Vault captures the friendly, chill vibes of European sex bars
Something we love about continental Europe, is that they love a cruise bar! From Berlin to Bilbao, Lyon to Lisbon, Europe's urban gay men...
We Are Still The Black Cap
We caught up with the group still campaigning to reopen the Black Cap
Last week marked three years since The Black Cap closed its doors...
QX meets… Philip Samba
We meet one of the founders of the groundbreaking new sexual health campaign by black men, for black men.
We’re in the RVT and Kylie’s...
Unique LGBT Disability – The London-based group for differently abled LGBTQ+ people
Unique LGBT is a much-needed, friendly and welcoming support group for disabled and differently-abled people in the LGBT community.
They meet twice monthly in central...
There’s a brand new 750 capacity gay venue opening in Central London
The myth that London's gay scene is dying has been well and truly quashed this week, with the news that CIRCA THE CLUB will...
Music & Books
The QX Weekly Playlist – SUMMER BANGERS
The QX Weekly Playlist - SUMMER BANGERS
Because it's summer now, apparently!
The sun's out, people are already collapsing into coleslaw on Hampstead Heath, and hitting...
Juno Dawson: We Talk Books and Boys with Brighton’s Teen Fiction Queen!
It’s a bright, crisp January day in Brighton. Arcade machines ping and tinkle and seagulls screech in the white winter sunshine. A young woman...
Our Fave London Music Videos!
Amidst all the QX office pandemonium for Kylie’s new single, one thing in particular caught our eyes. We recognise that tinselly backdrop and glittery...
We met Damian Barr in an alley in Soho and talked homophobia, his new...
It’s a Friday afternoon in Soho, and we’re in a cobbled alleyway with writer Damian Barr. It’s dusk, and on nearby Denmark Street, neon...
Hannah Jane Lewis – We meet the UK’s most promising new pop act!
It’s a blustery September morning, and we’re having a coffee and a gossip in a chic West London café with Hannah Jane Lewis. Dressed...
Parties & People
DJ of the Week… Pagano
We chat to the superstar DJ ahead of his set at XXL tomorrow
Originally hailing from the sunny climes of Sicily, you can now find...
QX Preview: TROUGH
You may know Trough from its absolutely STUNNING visuals, that they splatter all over social media once in a while. They're a right treat....
#JULIASAYS – Discerning scene musings of the princess of East London!
After all the exciting things we’ve been to lately, don’t you feel like putting your stillies up?! There’s no rest over our way, where’s...
Rogan Richards is coming to London tomorrow night…
All you need to do is look at our browser history to see that we're erm...FANS, of Rogan Richards.
If you somehow haven't heard of...
QX Preview: City of Quebec
One of London’s oldest gay venues is BACK ON THE SCENE
Still standing proud 72 years on, City of Quebec is one of the city’s...
Politics & History
How the Tories’ Digital Economy Act will Restrict your Access to Online Porn
New draconian content laws to rock the adult industries
You may be wondering what has happened to the adult classifieds on QXmagazine.com. Well, it’s...
Sadiq Khan
A pride message from the Mayor of London
Sadiq Khan is, quite possibly, the best mayor London has ever had. He’s passionate, real and genuine....
Vintage Cocks In Frocks! – Sasha Selavie on the intriguing tale of the birth...
When did drag first begin as public performance art? Arguably, in London 1870, when two very blatant drag queens were arrested in a West...
10 years Since the Smoking Ban – has it changed things?
10 Years Since The Smoking Ban – Joe Holyoake speaks to scene stalwarts about how it’s changed things
Well, nearly 10 years. Smoking was banned...
Editor’s Letter – We must fight to keep Chechnya in the public eye
Despite its reputation for stiff-upper-lip haughtiness and uncaring cynicism, something that London actually does do very well, is solidarity. Granted, that’s not always been...
Stage & Screen
Chicago at The Phoenix Theatre
The sparkling new West End production is faithful to the original. A little too faithful perhaps.
After little under six years away from the capital’s...
REVIEW: Vincent River at Park Theatre
RATING: *****
Since its premiere at The Hampstead Theatre in 2001, Philip Ridley’s Vincent River has stunned and inspired. Now, it’s back for an all-too-brief...
Sex/Crime: The shocking new gay thriller coming to The Glory
We’re in the beer battered bowels of The Glory. It’s their dance basement, which they open up for the purposes of queer club parties,...
Fuck 18 – Catch a tawdry, time-travelling jaunt in Walthamstow this weekend!
Fuck 18 is the latest show from Bread and Butter Productions coming to The CentrE17 this Saturday. The ungoogle-able play follows two interweaving stories...
The Happy Prince review – Rupert Everett’s directorial debut is a hectic but pleasingly...
Words by Caspar Salmon
It’s with a pleasing symmetry that Rupert Everett smuggles some dashes of queerness and subversion into this apparently classical biopic. What...
Travel
Six awesome Vegas gay bars you have to see!
Las Vegas! The city that rose from the Nevada desert in a towering burst of flickering neon, glittering casinos and self-consciously glamorous hotels.
Over the...
Nude Resorts – The Best In No-Clothing Relaxation and Light-Packing Travel
If you really want to inject excitement into your relationship or push the boundaries, clothing optional leisure resorts are the way to go. You...
A Queer Guide To Las Vegas
A Brief History of Las Vegas and The Fruit Loop
Since the official incorporation of the city back in 1911, Las Vegas has undergone a...
Pull on some lederhosen and get yerself to Germany!
Germany is THE hottest new gay travel destination. Well, it’s not exactly a NEW travel destination – gays have been going there for years....
Orchids & Oriental Exploration
Meet Douglas Thompson, who crafts bespoke holidays for LGBT travellers
Douglas Thompson has had the sort of sprawling, eclectic life normally seen in a Wes...
Longer Read
Firebrands in Frocks: The Radical Drag Queens of The Gay Liberation Front
On July 1st 1972, over 700 LGBT demonstrators made history by marching through London for the first official Pride carnival. It was the largest...
Unsung Gay Heroes in History
THE IMITATION GAME is a biopic of cryptologist Alan Turing and his heroic war-time efforts at Bletchley Park who is only now being given...
Growing Up Gay and Muslim
Ardent followers of Islam often harbour negative attitudes towards homosexuality. In most of the Muslim-majority world homosexual activity is illegal, carrying the death penalty...
Popular Features
Put Your Best Fruit Forward!
Jason Reid meets cabaret’s juiciest new star, Fruit!
Conceived at Micheal Twaits’ Art of Drag course, Fruit is the creation of Stevie Doherty. They’ve been...
The Vault captures the friendly, chill vibes of European sex bars
Something we love about continental Europe, is that they love a cruise bar! From Berlin to Bilbao, Lyon to Lisbon, Europe's urban gay men...
DJ of the Week… Pagano
We chat to the superstar DJ ahead of his set at XXL tomorrow
Originally hailing from the sunny climes of Sicily, you can now find...
