QX Magazine

Screw The Rolling Bones and Arctic Chimpanzees. Tucked away in the South East Corner of Glastonbury is a secret garden of carnal clubbing pleasure. Beyond the safe confines of the campsites and past ‘Shangri-La’ lies Block 9, the home to the now legendary NYC Downlow. While the homosexual hoi polloi were celebrating Pride in London, the edgiest performers...

Last June, 88-year-old Gad Beck died. He was the only known remaining gay Jewish survivor of the Holocaust. Two months later, Sweden announced it was to follow in the footsteps of Germany and Spain in opening an old people’s home especially for members of our community. However, one wonders whether either of these headlines registers much with most of...

The queer hip-hop movement began way back in 1997 in San Francisco with the Rainbow Flava crew and since then, gay, lesbian, bi and trans rappers have been throwing down rhymes from all around the world – from Cazwell, God-Des & She, and myself, to Zebra Katz, Cakes Da Killa, and Le1f.  One performer, Michael Quattlebaum Jr, an artist of...

In the early 70s The Godfather Of House music, Frankie Knuckles, DJ’d at the infamous Continental Baths in New York City, where artists like Bette Midler (aka Bathhouse Betty) accompanied by Barry Manilow on piano and Gloria Gaynor all performed. Knuckles was best friends with Paradise Garage legend Larry Levan and it was from here his journey to international...

London is a hot bed of man action and cruising at the best of times. As Fetish Week… London makes its return from 8th-14th July, prepare for that to be multiplied ten times over! QX chats to some of the city’s biggest names in XXX shopping, clubbing and fucking to explain why we are quite possibly the most diverse...

Over the past 20 years, Israeli filmmakers have made some of the world’s most dynamic gay-themed movies. And it’s not just because Israeli men are knee-weakeningly hot. QX film critic Jack Leger explores how this happened... In 1985 there were only three openly gay people in Israel. So it’s no wonder that the four movies made by pioneering gay Jewish...

This week our roving cabaret reporter, Jason Reid, got the full lowdown on The Very Miss Dusty O’s variety-inspired Birthday Ball which takes place at her palace of midweek fun, Trannyshack. Well, they do say variety is the spice of life, don’t they...   DUSTY O Hey Dusty, tell us a bit about your Birthday Ball... Well, it’s a ‘Boutique Variety Experience’,...

Bursting onto the stage of the Leicester Square Theatre and opening their brand new show with their rendition of ‘I’m Every Woman” The Supreme Fabulettes in ‘Viva La Drag’ show that they are just that. Taking on some of the biggest and best female musical voices from a multitude of musical genres, spanning Motown, pop, country and more. The cast:...

Condoms, condoms, condoms, has been the safe sex message for gay men since the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. However, this message isn’t working. By Patrick Cash New HIV diagnosis rates were at record rates for gay men in recent years, and it’s estimated that many young homosexual men living with the virus do not know they are infected. ‘We...

29/06/13:  Things didn’t go that well with the World Pride 2012, let’s be honest, and so expectations were high for what 2013 might bring. Luckily, the new Pride board stepped up to the challenge and pulled it off admirably, as most of the gay community would have attest on the day, be you partying and dancing boy or politically minded-activist....