QX Magazine

Situated in the heart of swinging King’s Cross, Central Station has been keeping us gays drunk and happy for nigh on twenty years now. A fabulous eatery with roof garden, friendly pub, a home for top cabaret and entertainment, plus a banging underground club – you’ll be hard pressed to find a more eclectic venue in gay land. But this is...

Boys will be boys, goes the weary saying of mothers everywhere. But sometimes some little boys don’t conform to their mothers’ ideas of boys… By Patrick Cash I was having a rather fabulous afternoon tea with My Extravagant Young Friend the other day when, barely had we sipped our champagne, before we’d launched into a vicious debate of the ‘nature verses nurture’ crux. Perhaps society in great part constructs its own...

David McGillivray’s verdict on new gay lit.     A new edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray (Four Corners, £11.95) reminds us that there was no gay subtext in Oscar Wilde’s only novel. On the contrary the book is screamingly gay from page 1, when Lord Henry Wotton (actually Wilde himself) falls in love at first sight of Dorian, “a young...

Hold on to your weaves… there’s a new cabaret diva strutting around London town. Ahead of her glittering new production The Velma Celli Show we sent Lee Dalloway to have words with the gorgeous Velma Celli (AKA Ian Stroughair)...   QX: Hey Ian. What have you been up to today? Lee, where can I start? I have been run ragged, and...

High scoring rugby union international Ben Cohen now has a high profile as a gay icon. He was the Gay Times Sports Personality of the Year 2008, an Attitude cover boy in 2009, and last year he supported GMFA’s Gay Sports Day. Now he wants you to come and have a beer at The 2 Brewers so he can...

David McGillivray wonders how long it’ll be before another English Premiership footballer comes out of the closet.       It’s a well-known fact that every single one of the 4,000 professional footballers in England is heterosexual. Not only that, but since football began in 1863 - that means we’re talking nearly 150 years - there’s been only one gay player. OK. Reality check...

What happens when the ‘ardest team in the Sunday Soccer League comes up against an all-gay side? That’s the story of Kick Off, Rikki Beadle Blair’s latest film. To find out more, Lee Dalloway met up with three of its gorgeous, homoxual-leaning stars to talk balls   STEPHEN HOO LEE: How are you today, dear? I’m very well, the weather is lovely and...

Last in a series in which David McGillivray profiles some forgotten but fascinating gay pioneers. This week: MP and the poet...   WILLIAM BANKES: COUNTRY HOUSE RESCUE As far as this series is concerned, he’s the oldest, the most forgotten, the most important. William Bankes was an early 19th century aristocrat with a taste for the finest things in life and the...

The closing night of gay theatrical den Oval House’s recent ‘Transgressions’ season, featured cabaret and avant garde performance impresario Nathan Evans’ suitably off-kilter take on the world’s greatest woes with the rather un-catchily titled, ‘I Love You But We Only Have Fourteen Minutes To Save The Earth’ (taken from the wonderfully camp film ‘Flash Gordon’!). The concept is simple: take...

We can’t believe that 79CXR is almost a grown-up! Seventeen years after first flinging open its doors, the Charing Cross Road stalwart has probably had its most re-energising year to date. Lee Dalloway chatted to head honcho Dave Bunce about what’s to come…   LEE: 79CXR has had a new lease of life this last year or so. What would you...