QX Magazine

In March of last year Victoria’s only gay bar, The Stag, finally closed its doors and made way for the impending bulldozers, who were to demolish every last stone, along with all of its rich gay heritage. With it went one of London’s most successful small theatres: Above The Stag, created there in 2008. Unlike the bar below, however,...

01/11/13: There’s something quite refreshing about the prospect of having a night out away from my usual central London-based haunts. And last Friday I did just that. Clutching a freshly issued visa I made a beeline for... Zone 5. Arriving at The Windsor Castle’s Pink Night, in aid of Drag/MacMillan Cancer Support and Breast Cancer Care, organised by Robert Cowley and...

Nothing gets us going in the DISH office like a good beauty pageant! We live for Little Miss Perfect toddlers and tiaras and movies like Drop Dead Gorgeous that encapsulate all the good you can find in the human race. So doing our own Mr Dish event came naturally, and we asked the boys from Manhunt to sponsor the event...

The countdown is on as Ku Bar Lisle Street waits in eager anticipation to celebrate its 2,000,000th customer. The lucky person will win a luxury weekend in Barcelona. Will it be you? Patrick Cash spoke to Ku founder Gary Henshaw…   We hear you’re coming up to Ku’s 2,000,000th customer! Is this over the entire history of Ku or specifically your Lisle Street...

Ahead of their big fundraising launch for their sexy nude 2014 calendar, gay rugby team the King’s Cross Steelers sent hench Tom Whittaker to talk to us both about the sport and what to expect on the night…    Tell us about the King’s Cross Steelers. How long have you guys been going for? Can anyone join? I found out about ‘the...

One of the Kazbar in Clapham’s biggest attractions is the wonderful soul singer Angie Brown. Ahead of her upcoming gig at the Kaz, we catch up with Mrs Brown herself to find out a little bit more about her…   Tell us a little about Angie Brown and your music.  When I started out singing, I was a session singer. So that...

Caro Emerald scored a huge No.1 earlier this year with ‘The Shocking Miss Emerald’, and has sold millions of albums worldwide since. She brings her sassy jazz style to G-A-Y this Saturday...  Your first two albums are classic concept albums, themed around different eras and cities, with Hollywood and Paris as the focus. Why did you pick Paris as the...

Can a game of bingo really be a work of art? It can when Jonny Woo adds his superlative touch to it.  Generally regarded as the pastime of old ladies with blue rinses it was only ever a matter of time before one of cabaret’s most ingenious minds was to transform its already camp characteristics (“two fat ladies 88”, “legs...

Trade is back with another immense birthday party across four rooms this weekend. And to help pull the whole shebang together owner Laurence Malice has brought DJ Steven Sharp on board to help take the brand to new heights…   How did your new promoter role come about? It’s been such a weird year in my career. I left Orange Nation in...

Well it’s that time of the year again, campers, when usually sane adults up and down the country throw caution to the wind and dress up as their favourite dead person/mass murderer/fictional monster - all whilst necking as many Jägerbombs and taking dozens of heavily filtered Instagram selfies. But what of the dedicated cabaret queens of the scene, who...