QX Magazine

Lewis G Burton is a concept. A destination. He’s sort of like what would happen if Ursula from The Little Mermaid had an illegitimate child with Leigh Bowery. The product of a sambucca and seawater fueled night out of Poseidon’s Tavern. Unfortunately, Poseidon’s Tavern isn’t a new gay venue you haven’t heard of. We made it up. Anyway Lewis...

Our fave gay soccer boys, the London Titans FC, are celebrating their birthday with their eleventh annual birthday tournament!   It’ll be made up of 11-a-side matches. That’s when you’ve got eleven people playing on each team. We think. We’re not sure. We know NOTHING about football, ok?! But these boys do, and they’ve done an amazing amount of stuff to provide...

Sasha Selavie peeks under the tights of comic-book icons and asks, ‘Who’s zooming who?’   Think comic books are kid stuff? Think again! For Dr. Frederic Wertham, the hugely influential US psychiatrist who authored Seduction of The Innocent in 1953, they were Cold War, video nasties! Why? Three words, darlings – drugs, perversion and criminality, all featured monthly in no-holds barred sensationalism,...

Joe Holyoake’s driving the pop buggy this week, and he’s got SUMMINK TO SAY   This has been a firm favourite in QX HQ. You’d be surprised at how few songs manage to unite the office and appeal to the massively varied tastes that take in everything from Kylie Minogue to Dannii Minogue. But Röyksopp have done it A-GAIN. There’s no...

We speak to filmmaker Chris Amos on his upcoming documentary narrated by Ian McKellan, which promises to give a unique and unbiased window into the life of one of the world’s most notorious activists. Hi Chris! First of all, why do you feel it’s so important to make this film?  When I first met Peter Tatchell 16 years ago I admired...

Recently there’s been a new wave of talented and creative drag kings appearing on the London cabaret circuit. These performers are challenging heteronormativity. while entertaining audiences in all corners of the capital. It’s an exciting time for an art that dates back to the 1800’s. Don’t know them? Well, you should. Meet: LoUis CYfer (Lucy), Benjamin Butch (Ben), Adam All (Jen),...

After suffering a homophobic attack on his walk home in East London in 2005, Brazilian performance artist Nando Messias responded with his piece ‘The Sissy’s Progress’, which saw him march in a dress and heels from the spot of the assault, followed in tow by a four-piece brass band.   It was a brave statement in reclaiming the femininity that attracted...

By Dylan Jones Well, ladies and gentlemen, we have a new Nicole Kidman! Emily Blunt has proven she’s not only capable of smirking her way icily around offices (Devil Wears Prada) and rocketing herself full-throttle into dystopic sci-fi (Edge Of Tomorrow), but also staring, stuttering and screaming her way through that most prolific of productions from the Nicole Kidman School...

New York based artist Ron Amato has been taking photos all his life, inspired by fashion and portraiture from iconic figures in the industry like Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe and Francesco Scavullo. Much of Amato’s work focuses on the male form. Now he has created a series of unique and visually arresting images. His photo project “The Box” is simultaneously...

This isn’t a gay film, at least in the traditional sense. There’s a queer subplot that’s pretty crucial to proceedings, but it looms under the surface like a circling shark and it never really rears its head fully above water. Instead, Moonlight is an uncompromising exploration of black masculinity. Based on Tarell Alvin McCraney’s play ‘In Moonlight Black Boys Look...