QX Magazine

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,...

At times, we all get caught up in the good taste/bad taste conundrum: is it so bad it’s good, or is good taste with no sense of irony just plain boring? I’ll let you decide, as I’m qween of everything with a twist of bad taste and a splash of irony thrown in!   So yes my dears this week we...

’‘Love’s meant to be good, yeah, but this just fucking hurts’’ – no, these are not words uttered by an unhappy homo attempting anal for the first time, but the musings of Croydon-born Casey living in an unspecified town in West Ireland, as he reflects on the broken parental relationships which have acted as an example for him in...

This is one of those insane amalgamations that manifests when all the right things happen at the right time, all the right people connect with each other, all the right emails get opened, and something speakers-bustingly, brain-shaggingly amazing is created!   Those of you in the know, will have heard of club promoter Kevin Clash. He’s got more ideas than Banksy...

Hopes were not high for Bridget Jones’s Baby. A development plagued by delays and complications, the exit of Hugh Grant as the iconically sexy Daniel Cleaver, an increasingly impatient and implanted Renee Zellwegger, all culminating in a bizarre September release date – not quite summer blockbuster, and not even close to Bridget’s usual reindeer jumper Christmas slot. Not to...

When older people tell younger folk of a golden era of clubbing that they were conveniently in the right place and right time to enjoy, it should often be taken with a pinch of white powder.   However, it is difficult not to be envious of those who got to frequent the impossibly glamorous gay nightclubs of 1970s/80s New York; from...

Our favourite hairy monochrome urban-chic club night is BACK.   Cast your cautions into the gutter by the Thames, pull on some Timbalands and dig out that leather bracelet from…well…from last time you went to Brüt! Brüt is the brainchild of one of the London gay scene’s best-known beary blokes, Wayne Shires! He can often be seen propping up the bar at...

In the run up to BiVisibility Day, Lewis Oakley tells us what it means to be a bisexual man in 2016   I’m a bisexual man - Yes, we exist! And no, I’m not confused, lying or going through a phase. I’m 25, so I think I know by now what turns me on. Friday 23rd of September is internationally known as...

In 2015, Sum Ting Wong made her drag debut, reaching the final of Drag Idol with a routine peppered with quick wit and impressive vocals, and she quickly became a familiar face on the drag circuit. This week, Jason Reid talked to Bo - the man behind Sum Ting - about starting out, racial stereotypes, and his drag crush...   Hey...

Anna Martine is a unique, talented and formidably intelligent young actor. She’s just finished a critically acclaimed run in Rotterdam on the West End, a play about a woman who goes through a transition from male to female. Since then she’s been speaking out about gender and women’s rights, and how women are treated in the acting industry, writing articles...