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Darius Ferdynand says “ I know what my HIV status is. So should you. Get tested.” World AIDS Dayy Special

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QX_977_Cover.indd 1 26/11/2013 19:56 Remember, Remember, 1st of December With HIV/AIDS still affecting so many gay men in the world today, and the spread of new infections rising, World AIDS Day remains one of our community’s most important events. It’s a time to remember the lives lost, the battles won and to better inform ourselves of the gay scene’s most prevalent health issue. And most of all, GET TESTED!

Darius Knows His Status, So Should You One of the fittest gay porn stars around and this week’s QX cover star, Darius Ferdynand, has spoken out for World AIDS Day. In a YouTube video for Positive East he says: “I have great sex, but I do so SOLDIER ON FOR A knowing what my HIV status is. HEALTHIER COMMUNITY So should you.” It echoes the …And it’s not just porn stars like Darius message of most HIV charities Ferdynand that care about their sexual that it is always best to know health, James Wharton, a former Lance your status, for your own health Corporal with the Blues and Royals, took and that of others. You can view a rapid HIV test to encourage more gay the clip here: men to test for the virus. He said: “Modern www.positiveeast.org.uk tests are done in minutes, and you get your Check out result there and then. I fully believe we can www.iwantanHIVtest.org.uk win the fight against HIV, but it’s up to us to for details of instant HIV tests keep testing, testing, testing.” in venues across London for the Visit www.startswithme.org.uk to find World AIDS Day week. your nearest testing centre or to order a postal testing kit.

A Positive Look Positive Sunday 1st December, Waterloo East Theatre, Brad Street, Waterloo, SE1 8TG Tickets: £10/£12. Booking: waterlooeast.co.uk Prowler’s World AIDs Week Fundraising In the name of World AIDs Day, Prowler, 5 – 7 Brewer Street, Soho, W1F 0AF stage comedy Positive will be Earlier this year, Millivres Prowler Group teamed up with six heading to London for one night charities; AVERT, The Food Chain, GMFA, National AIDs only. The story centres around Trust, PACE and Positive East. And now they’re reuniting in the Benji (Will Marsh) who after week’s run-up to World AIDs Day to raise more money for them – getting his HIV under control, is with different activities going on each evening. Giving a donation to now looking to get his love life off collectors at Piccadilly Circus on 30th November also entitles you the flat-liner. It’s unusual to see a play that confronts a serious issue to 10% off at the store. in a light-hearted way and with great reviews across the board, we can only imagine it’s refreshing to say the least.

Know Your Facts Talk About It Remember Ask Me About HIV London Gay Men’s Group St Anne’s Church with 56 Dean Street For the weekend of World AIDS Day, the This weekly group is for gay men living with 55 Dean Street, Soho, W1D 6AF Terrence Higgins Trust will be supporting HIV, to discuss life, love, sex, health and Sunday 1st December, 4pm-6.30pm people with HIV in telling their stories and anything to do with living with the virus. All are welcome at St Anne’s Church on raising awareness of HIV to combat the Friendships are born and advice is given Sunday 1st December to light a candle, stigma attached to it. Check out in this non-judgemental, good-humoured listen to short presentations, record the www.tht.org.uk/askme to see a fact atmosphere. They meet every Monday from names of your loved ones and be in the sheet, to educate yourself and others. 5.30pm-8pm at the 56 Dean Street Ground company of friendly people who care. St Board Room. Email [email protected] Anne’s and 56 Dean Street clinic provide for more information. this joint venture so we don’t forget those we’ve lost to HIV and AIDS.

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QX_977_World Aids Day.indd 2 26/11/2013 18:35 QX 977 MASTER 1.indd 3 26/11/2013 14:27 GET TESTED!

20% of those with HIV don’t know they have the virus!

According to latest figures in a new Public Health England report, around 20% of all people living with HIV in the UK are unaware of their HIV status. This means they are delaying treatment, which impacts their health and reduces their life expectancy. It also means they could be unknowingly infecting people they sleep with. It is important that anyone who is not testing, should be. Chelsea and Westminster Hospital’s sexual health clinics have Testing Times arranged some special events and set up new services to make getting tested even easier. See www.faststdtest.nhs.uk for G-A-Y and 56 Dean Street have been promoting HIV testing on the further information about all the events. gay scene for years. This year on World AIDS Day they continue their efforts to drive the message home that knowing your status could save your life. G-A-Y owner Jeremy Joseph chats to QX…

Where to get tested! How did last year’s are worried about having campaign go for you? a positive result, 56 Dean Extended opening hours and special events. Last year was our second Street will be on standby year. In the first year we with all their expertise to set a world record, and last help you. Thursday 28th, year we broke our world It also indirectly 18.00-20.30 record. Since then, a group inspired a lot of the Antidote in South America broke events around National 32a Wardour Street, London our record, which I guess HIV Testing Week. W1D 6AQ is a good thing, because They’ve since added our In partnership with Antidote, the yes we created it and they event into it so it now ends LGBT drug and alcohol charity, broke our record, but our on World AIDS Day 1st offering HIV home sampling saliva original activity inspired December, which I think is testing kits and sexual health advice. other countries to do important to have that day what we did. They tested of remembrance. Friday 29th, 17.00-19.00 over 3,000 people in eight What’s happening with Archway Centre And for every person tested G-A-Y hours! From that point of this year’s event at 681 - 689 Holloway Road, N19 5SE will donate a generous £10 to the view it’s a really good thing. G-A-Y Bar? Mortimer Market Centre Elton John AIDS Foundation. Get What was the initial We decided because there (off Tottenham Court Road), a health, check, help charity AND reaction to this kind of was no way we could break WC1E 6JB possibly bag £1,000 all in one go! testing in a gay bar? the record and test over Open for men who have sex with We love it! When we first decided 3,000 people in eight hours, men (MSM) for rapid HIV testing. to do this, we took a we would give people three Every Monday lot of flack from people reasons to get tested with 29th November Man Health at Manbar for what we were doing. us. First is that everybody John Hunter Clinic 79 Charing Cross Road, People were missing the who gets tested in G-A-Y Portobello Road - Westbourne Soho WC2H 0NE point. They thought we Bar will get a number – and Grove, outside Earl of Lonsdale Manbar and 56 Dean Street join were more interested in it’s not my phone number, public house W11 2QA. 10am-6pm forces to create a healthier gay making a world record, but so that’s good news! community. Every Monday you’ll be the purpose of going for [Laughs] The number will 30th November able to walk into Manbar and get the world record was to go into a draw and at 10pm West London Centre for an instant HIV or Hepatitis C test get people talking about somebody will win £1,000. Sexual Health and fast results for Gonorrhoea getting tested and creating You’ll also be helping charity Hammersmith (The cobbled area and Chlamydia by text message. awareness. But for us it as G-A-Y will be donating immediately outside Hammersmith The service will run every Monday was nothing new because £10 for every person tested Underground station). 1-5pm evening, 5pm-8pm. Chris Amos, we’ve been holding weekly to the Elton John AIDS Manbar’s founder, told QX: “The HIV testing clinics at G-A-Y Foundation. But the most 1st December outreach programme will hopefully Bar for years. The tests are important thing by far is G-A-Y Bar & 56 Dean Street, give gay people an opportunity conducted discretely. If you about knowing your status! 12-8pm to take care of themselves G-A-Y Bar, 30 Old Compton without having to go to a clinic Street, Soho, W1D 4UR environment.” Fancing winning £1,000 on World AIDS Day? Simply pop in to get Every Wednesday a HIV test! Knowing your status G-A-Y Bar (in the basement Get tested with G-A-Y & 56 Dean Street can save your life, so professionals bar), 30 Old Compton Street, at G-A-Y Bar (30 Old Compton Street, Soho, W1D 4UR) from 56 Dean Street will be Soho, W1D 4UR. From 5pm. on Sunday 1st December, 2-9pm doing the finger-prick test from Weekly testing with the full support 2-9pm on Sunday 1st December. of the 56 Dean Street clinic. Taking an HIV test takes less than 1 minute! See Jeremy takes his test with 56 Dean Street on YouTube by searching ‘1 Minute HIV Test’. 4

QX_977_World Aids Day.indd 4 26/11/2013 18:35 QX 977 MASTER 1.indd 5 26/11/2013 14:28 A look at HIV in 2013 The docs who cried ‘cure’

There doesn’t seem to be a month that goes by without a research laboratory or newspaper declaring, rather sensationally, that they are close to finding a cure for HIV. Of course, the reality of this would be welcome news. But how many of these sensationalist headlines are grounded in actual, real facts? Will Harris, Head of Media at THT, looks back at a year of HIV in the headlines…

henever a story the virus. Then in July, two men breaks about a in Boston were reportedly cured potential new of HIV following bone marrow W ‘cure’ for HIV transplants from donors with an (and there have inbuilt genetic immunity. been at least six this year), it All these things add to our generally falls to THT to piss on understanding of HIV, and bring the everyone’s chips. We don’t do this cure a little bit closer. But we’re to be contrary, or because we’re still quite some way off. Only last scared a cure will have us all out of month, a study coming out of the US a job (that would be the happiest suggested the viral ‘reservoir’ – the redundancy process ever); we spots in the brain and bone marrow do it because researchers, with where the virus hides, even when the best of motives, are getting It’s like claiming drug treatments have eliminated it seriously ahead of themselves. from the rest of the body – is up to Funding for HIV research is a your car can reach sixty times larger than previously fraction of what it used to be. thought, presenting a major new With less money in the pot, 110mph because the obstacle for researchers. scientists can view a few good The cure we all hope for may still headlines as the thing that keeps seatbelt works.” be a dot on the horizon, but 2013 a faltering funding stream from has brought us some welcome drying up completely. This might advances. Earlier in the summer, the explain why, for the last few years, Department of Health announced researchers have been seeing ‘the cure’ in everything from it was updating outdated regulations around HIV. From next samples of the virus in a petri dish to animal trials on cats. April, surgeons, dentists and midwives with the condition will One recent story trumpeted a ‘promising new vaccine’ when be able to practice again, so long as they are on treatment scientists hadn’t even observed how it interacts with the and have an undetectable viral load. Restrictions on the sale virus; only that someone could take it without keeling over. of HIV self-testing kits will be lifted too, allowing people who That’s like claiming your car can reach 110mph because the want to test at home the opportunity to do so. seatbelt works. Figures released last week by Public Health England suggest The only thing that can tell us whether a drug is effective that, in the gay community’s ongoing fight against HIV, the is a phase 3 human trial, a stage only a fraction of studies community is starting to turn the tide. Testing rates are up reach. The broader concern is the effect these jump-the- dramatically, and the proportion of gay men with HIV who gun ‘cure’ stories are having on people’s attitudes toward are undiagnosed has fallen to less than one in five. In 2005, the virus. Our new survey of people with HIV reported that figure was around one in two. almost half had encountered someone who Progress may feel slow at times, but it is believed a cure already exists. steady. Inch by inch, we are getting there. The That’s not to say there haven’t been steps old messages – get tested, use a condom, stick forward in research this year. In March, a to your medication – are working. They may not toddler in Mississippi made global headlines, be the shiny cure that gets journalists hot and after an intensive course of anti-HIV bothered, but they are the best we have until treatment apparently cleared her body of that day comes.

THT needs your help to promote the facts about HIV this World AIDS Day on Sunday 1st December. Visit www.tht.org.uk/askme to get involved.

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I had no idea that I had it, I went for a test in September 2011 and then I kept on missing these calls from the clinic, and I thought it couldn’t be anything too big, but then eventually I picked up a call and they were like ‘you need to come in.’ I was eventually diagnosed on the 10th December. I felt numb initially. And then it was the next day that I spent the whole day in bed crying. I didn’t want to get up. It’s been two years now, and I still don’t think that’s quite enough time to fully come to terms with your diagnosis, but you know it gets easier by the day. I’m not yet on medication because my viral load and CD4 counts I got only are quite robust. In terms of telling my friends, I didn’t actually tell most of them myself – I was booked to DJ at a club in April 2012 and I’d just had a falling out with a former best friend at that time. « messages They went on the Facebook group and started posting about me having HIV. Considering 3 or 4,000 people were invited to that event, pretty much everyone knew. of love and But on the other side, I got only messages of love and support from my friends after that happened. I haven’t experience any HIV-phobia first hand to my face, I support don’t know what people are saying about me behind my back! And there’s only been one guy I liked who backed away when he from my found out I was positive. I can’t blame him for that because I kinda understand it; even though he can accept that HIV doesn’t change me as a person, he didn’t want to take that risk, however small friends it may be. However, I do think a lack of education and awareness about HIV, not just in the gay community, but in the wider world, might contribute to this thinking. However, it wasn’t a lack of education that contributed to me getting it. I wasn’t having lots of unprotected sex, it was a one-off and a silly mistake. Whether he knew he had HIV or not doesn’t matter to me, it can’t change anything now, it’s about moving forward. At the end of the day it is a Russian Roulette: you could sleep with 1,000 people and not pick up HIV, or you can sleep with one person and get it. It has given me a new take on life in a way, I just think that as a DJ I have a duty to lift people up and it’s about moving forward, » you know. 8

QX_977_Me, my life & HIV.indd 8 26/11/2013 19:23 ‘Matt’ Bartender, 20 I have no I was diagnosed late September. « I had a really bad sero-conversion sympathy – which is the beginning stages of it – so I was ill for about three weeks and I was admitted to for anyone hospital for four days. Even the doctor didn’t know what was going having on; I hadn’t eaten, I’d lost about three stone, being sick. Before that unprotected I was going to the doctor’s every day, saying ‘I’ve never been this ill, sex. I have no I visibily look like death’, and they just sent me away. One of them sympathy for said I had vertigo. Had my step-mum not disputed it and demanded a blood test, they myself. Good would have dismissed me again, but after they took the blood test the luck, because doctor who was going to send me away apologised so much. My liver you’re asking was on the brink of collapsing, I was totally screwed. I had to be put on a for it. drip for energy and water. Four days down the line they said you can go home. They said they didn’t know what it was, it was an » acute viral illness. Two days later we went back and they said the results had come back inconclusive, that I might have HIV. I was in total shock. You don’t believe it. You just brush it under the carpet, it’s too big. Too big to cope with. In terms of just coming out of uni and looking for what career you want to go into, and dealing with what medication you’re going to be on for the rest of your life and coming to terms with an illness that’s never going to go away, it’s too much to deal with. I’m quite lucky with the medication, usually you have severe side effects but – fingers crossed – I’ve had nothing, and it’s been about three weeks now, and usually the main side effects kick in within a week. I started the medication now because of sero-conversion. The more ill you are, the better your outcome is, because your body can fight it better. My family are really bad dealing with it because they’re so emotional. They’re constantly crying and because my family are so weak, I’m a lot stronger. Particularly over the last few weeks, I’ve just got really cold, that’s the only way I can describe it. It’s not me consciously doing it, it’s also subconscious, the bigger the issue the more I’ll close it up. If something’s a shock to your body, then you’ll try and hide it away. I was having unsafe sex. I didn’t really do one-night stands, but I did do online dating and with gay people, particularly when you first come out, you feel like you want a boyfriend. And then you’re on this mad search for a boyfriend and it never works, so you break up with one person and you’re upset so you jump on to the next person because you never want to be single. And then before you know it, you’ve got a line of men that you’ve been with, and it’s like “shit, what have I done?” And then bang, it’s too late. I haven’t told many people. I think people look down on people with HIV so I don’t want anyone feeling that I’m a weak person or any less of a person than I was before, so I’ve told my immediate, best friends and I’ve not told anyone else. I have no sympathy for anyone having unprotected sex. I have no sympathy for myself. Good luck, because you’re asking for it. But if you get diagnosed: deal with it how you want to deal with it. There’s nothing worse than trying to deal with something and having people telling you that way is wrong.

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QX_977_Me, my life & HIV.indd 9 26/11/2013 19:24 ‘Elliot’, 20

I was diagnosed on the 1st October, 2013. I really didn’t expect it. I know how I got it, I was having unprotected sex and I didn’t care. I just thought if anything would happen I would get something curable like Chlamydia or something. I never thought I would have HIV. Usually these bad things happen to other people, a neighbour or someone across the street. You just never think it will happen to you. I trusted people too much as well, if I asked them if they were clean and they said ‘yeah’, I would ask some more questions but that would be it. Before my partner and I met I was abroad in a different country and I think that’s where I got it from, because I wasn’t careful. « I was testing every three months, but I would go to my doctor and tell him I wanted The only to get checked for sexual things. I wouldn’t go to a sexual health clinic because I didn’t people think I was the kind of person who would have these things. who have I think there needs to be more education Paul Fleming, about sexual health and HIV. When I was discriminated Positive East Worker in school I didn’t actually get taught about against me HIV. They taught us about AIDS, but they I was a bit frightened when I was diagnosed didn’t say anything about HIV or gay men or have been as to what people may think and say, and gay women, it’s always two straight people. what happens next. It took me about six I didn’t know anything about HIV until I got other gay years to tell family. Some friends I told it, but then I read up more about it and I men. straight away, others it took more time, I learned more about it. still haven’t directly told all of them. I came I’ve told a few close friends who I look at to Positive East to get a lot of support, and as family, because I trust them and I know they were brilliant. I got some counselling, they won’t say anything, and I’ve told my housing» advice because I was homeless at the time, and a hardship family, apart grant from the Crusaid fund. from my Dad. I did a diagnosis course which was really useful to get my head My Mum cried, « around what had happened. My self-esteem was still quite low so some of my they encouraged me to do some volunteering, and that helped me friends cried, When I was in put my life back together and get back on my feet. Providing you’re but they were all school I didn’t diagnosed at a reasonable time before you get sick, the rest of your supportive. life is as long as it would have been otherwise. I haven’t actually get I was lucky, my immune system is very robust and I managed for encountered nearly ten years without starting medication which is very unusual. any stigma yet taught about I started meds just over eighteen months ago, it works perfectly because I was HIV. They well, I don’t have any side effects and I take three pills a day. Apart only recently from that you wouldn’t know. diagnosed. I taught us about I’m not going to have bareback sex with someone who doesn’t don’t really know what their HIV status is, or tells me that they’re HIV negative. want anybody AIDS, but they However, if we’re having sex and an accident happens I don’t feel to know to be pressured. I know what to do, which is to get them to A&E and they honest, only didn’t say can get PEP straight away. the people anything about The only people who have discriminated against me have been who love and other gay men, other gay men who have preferred not to have care about me HIV or gay men sex with me. They prefer to have sex with someone who doesn’t and vice versa know their status rather than someone who is positive, which I find because I know or gay women, bizarre. It’s just ignorance. they won’t judge it’s always two The expression ‘are you clean?’ is a disgusting expression. Clean? me like that. Clean from what? If someone’s written on their online profile ‘only I’ve warned straight people. looking for clean guys’ then I’m just not interested, I’m not even going them just to be to go there. I can’t be arsed to try and educate people. I have tried in more careful the past, but not really got anywhere. with themselves. It’s taught me you really In a bizarre way in the past eleven years though, it’s been should help your friends sometimes as more positive than negative. I’ve changed my career, refocused well, you should open their eyes before my energies, I’m much gentler, I’m much kinder, I’m much more something like that hits. Because I say to conscious of the little things in life that we probably pass and don’t them look what’s happened to me: it’s not » even notice and take for granted each day. It’s almost kind of being the neighbour this time, it’s one of your blessed by being mindful of mortality. best friends. Although I wouldn’t wish it on anyone, and it’s not a career choice!

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QX_977_Me, my life & HIV.indd 10 26/11/2013 19:24 QX 977 MASTER 1.indd 11 26/11/2013 14:30 Eric, 42 Positive East Gay Men’s Worker « I wouldn’t I was diagnosed twenty- something years ago. About like anyone 1994. I was quite ill, I was to go getting very big bruises everywhere, on my leg and through then on my side and my father’s a doctor so I went to see him what I went and he said ‘this is normally something that pregnant through, women get or elderly people’ because it and so I went to the Royal Free and I got tested. I was admitted was hard and Shane Valentine, 27 to hospital the next day. I was quite surprised but sometimes I went to get my results and I was left sat there for like ten/fifteen I wasn’t shocked. I’d been it was really minutes. The longer time went on I started to get a bit more anxious having a lot of unsafe sex – for and then this guy called me in and blurted it out: ‘Your HIV test has probably all my life beforehand. lonely. come back positive.’ Everything around me went quiet and I started I preferred it. I had to go to to cry. I felt like I couldn’t breathe. I was thinking all these different hospital every three months things: how am I going to tell this guy that I’m seeing? Is Mum going to stay for a week. I must have to be really disappointed in me? How am I ever going to date again? had a really high viral load, and « I wasn’t having much unprotected sex, it’s the obviously in those days there » perils of Grindr. I got chatting to this guy and I were no machines to measure life is going to be, perhaps I was went round to his, we had a bottle of wine and that, but my CD4 count was your brain has this ability to thinking one thing lead to another… We had unprotected like 28, and I had non-existent make you worse. But there all these sex and I was a little bit under the influence, but platelets. Platelets make the was definitely an improvement different we’d had the conversation before, and he said he blood clot so that it doesn’t with the drugs, there was an things: how was negative and he’d been testing recently and I bleed through the veins. I had improvement in my skin colour, am I going had been tested recently, so I didn’t really think about 3 and what would be and I had more energy. too much of it. acceptable would be something I have a certain way of to tell this I decided to go on to treatment probably about like 120-180. disclosing my status online. guy that I’m four months after I was diagnosed, even though I was scared. I got scared I’ll ask people “What’s seeing? Is I wasn’t on the frontline of needing to take when people died around your status” and they’ll say Mum going medication. It was just something I felt I needed me. Like I was in hospital and “Whatever” or “I’m negative” to be really to do in order to take control. Whilst this virus is I’d wake up and a couple of and then I’ll say “Oh, I’m disappointed swimming about in your body and multiplying and people who I’d spoken to the positive.” And in a way I’m in me? How doing whatnot, it just makes you feel really dirty. day before had died. When the not ashamed of it, and actually So, mentally I thought if I’m on medication and it drugs came through I was put it’s made me a better person am I ever suppresses it, then I’m in control. on loads of tablets. In those and look at things in a totally going to Obviously, as I hadn’t been sleeping around I days there were people taking different way. If someone’s got date again? knew exactly where it came from. And it was a about sixty tablets a day, and issues with it then I don’t think weird feeling because instead of feeling angry, I not only that, but they made I can be bothered. » kind of felt sorry for him. I contacted him and told you really sick as well, the side Years ago people would just him I’d been tested positive and he should go and get tested. He was a effects were awful. Diarrhea, go “If you don’t mind, I’ll pass”, bit shirty to start off with but then he went, and got a positive result. lethargy, making you feel but there have been some who Then, not only was he coming to terms with being diagnosed, he was rubbish. have been quite interested in coming to terms with the fact that he’d given it to someone else. I never had pneumonia how I felt. The gay community I was naïve about HIV before I was diagnosed. I’d only come across or anything like that, is its own worst enemy in one person who had HIV when I was twenty or twenty-one, and it though. I think a lot of it terms of HIV stigma. The kind of freaked me out. I couldn’t imagine taking it further. I guess was psychosomatic, and I industry that’s been created there is stigma, but I’ve been relatively lucky myself. The only really wasn’t going to be beaten by amongst the gay community negative response I’ve had is a guy I used to know came up to me in anything. And I think if you sit is very bad at promoting HIV a bar and said “I’ve heard something really horrible about you, that around doing bloody nothing, awareness, there’s hardly you’ve got HIV” and I said “Yeah, I have” and he just turned his back despairing about what your anything apart from THT and on me and walked away. ourselves. But also it’s a very Nothing I can say or anyone else can say is going to stop people World AIDS Day is onSunday 1st good way of getting rid of having unprotected sex, I know that. But for me the biggest thing is December people you don’t want to talk ‘know your status’. Go and get tested regularly and make sure that to. you’re aware. The guy that I got it from didn’t know he had it, and I wouldn’t like anyone to go Positive East is at 159 Mile End Road, things may be different for me had he been tested. How would you through what I went through, feel if you gave it to someone unknowingly? Stepney Green, E1 4AQ because it was hard and sometimes it was really lonely. To join in their WAD 5k run go to positiveeast.org.uk 12

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INFORMERTHE WHO, WHAT, WHY, WHERE, WHEN OF GAY LONDON… THE LEADING IRON LADY Magaret Thatcher Queen Of Soho 10th December – 4th January A MAN Theatre503, 503 TO PET ON Battersea Park Road, YOUR WALL SW11 3BW A Man To Pet’s Tickets: £10/£12 2014 Calendar Launch www.theatre305.com or call Launch: Wednesday 4th 020 7978 7040 December, 8pm Ever wondered what would George and the Dragon, 2 happen if the first female Prime Minister Hackney Road, Hoxton, E2 7NS ever took to the stage for a bit of If a wall calendar of scantily cabaret? Well, wonder no more. In Jon clad silicone titties doesn’t Brittain’s play, Mags finds herself exactly float your boat, then lost in Soho, the night before why not opt for one of the the vote for Section 28, before more alternative calendars stumbling into a gay bar and being released for next year. taking hold of the mic. It’s a camp Scene personality A Man to Pet spectacular that takes a swipe at offers up wonderfully engaging homophobia and it runs in conjunction images (aka “wacky weird with ‘Boris and Sergey’s Vaudevillian shizzle”) for each month of Xmas Adventure’. the year. Join him over in east London for the launch party with performances, visuals and music. #loveit

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SCOTTISH FIRST FICTION Thursday 5th December, 7pm Gay’s the Word Bookshop, 66 THIS IS NOT A DREAM Marchmont Street, Russell Sq, Hackney Attic, Hackney Picturehouse, 270 Mare Street, E8 1HE WC1N 1AB Thursday 28th and Friday 29th November Entry: £2 Doors open at 7.30pm, Tickets £5 Throw on ye tartan and head over To book call 0871 902 5734 to Gay’s the Word for their first ever Some of our favourite artists, including David Hoyle, Scottee and Scottish fiction event, where an audience will be treated to the Holestar, are taking part in this DIY live documentary about the likes of LGBT historian Bob Cant’s debut novel ‘Something Chronic’ use of moving images since Warhol. These are the final live dates – as long as he’s not talking about his IBS – we’re all ears. He’ll before it is released on DVD in January. It charts the path of radical be joined by Kerry Hudson (Book of the Year finalist) reading from escapism and avant-garde experimentation across four decades, ‘Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma’ with influences ranging from Warhol, John Waters and Jack Smith – try saying that after six vodkas. to YouTube and Chatroulette. It’s directed by Gavin Butt and Ben Walters, with music by Morgan Quaintance.

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QX_977_Informer.indd 14 26/11/2013 18:21 Don’t You Know Who I Am? Mark Ames XXL owner

Where are you from? What makes the London I’m from North London, gay scene so special? guv. Proudly born and Without doubt its raised. changing demographics. Where do you live now Nothing’s for sure and we NO GOING What is this, Celebrity all have to keep on our BACK CAROLS Stalkers? toes so it’s always fresh, Carol Service in support of LGBT asylum seekers How old are you? always progressive. St George’s Church, Bloomsbury Way. 48. I’ve loved every age, so And what is the worst WC1A 2SR no need to lie about it. thing about the gay scene? Friday 6th December, 7pm. FREE Describe yourself in three Haters keep on hating The London Gay Men’s Choir, Amy Lamé, words. without even knowing Phyllis Opoku-Gyimah, Bisi Alimi and Dr Dastardly, devastatingly why! Greg Ussher are on hand to add a few devilish. What question do you extra voices to this Carol Service being Cat person or dog person? get asked the most when held to support No Going Back. No Going You can keep your pussies, working? Back is a charity that provides free legal I don’t trust anything that “Are you Mark…OMG … I representation for LGBT asylum seekers craps in the kitchen. Big thought you were taller!” in the UK, who are fighting to not be soppy chocolate labs are If you were a cocktail, returned to their home country where my choice. I sadly lost one what would be your they face life-threatening persecution. of my boys this year. ingredients? The event is free and everybody is What was the first gay As it’s festive this month welcome. There will also be No venue you ever went to? I would have to be an Going Back Christmas cards The Flower Pot in XXL Polar Bear milkshake: on sales and all profits Tottenham. I was so Vodka 50ml, 2 Oreo and donations will be in shocked, I chatted the bar Cookies, 100ml milk, 3 aid of No Going Back. maid up saying, “I’m not scoops vanilla ice cream Amy Lamé like them, I can dance!” (if you can get a ginger Hats off to them it was a and vanilla even better). riot of campness. I think Blend until well combined. Tricky Dicky was the DJ Garnish with a crushed and the Trollettes were Oreo and a sprig of mint. downstairs. If you need a quick fix pop What has been the into a McDs and just add highlight of your career? vodka to a McFlurry. A club is as good as its last Tell us something about event. I’m my own worst you that nobody knows… critic, but best moments I’ve had to sign the were opening 13 years Official Secrets Act 1963! ago and Bear Pride/XXL birthdays. Who are the world’s best XXL is fundraising for DJs? Mildmay on Saturday 30th For me John Digweed is still November. Mark Ames number one. His depth in will match all donations sound and room control is £1 for £1. XXL is at Pulse flawless as is the technical (1 Invicta Plaza, South ability of his blends and Bank, SE1 9UF), every journeys through sound. Saturday, 10pm-7am and ‘Elegies For Angels, Punk And Raging Queens’ by OutWest Richie Hawtin and Seth Wednesday, 9pm-3am. West Five, Popes Lane, South Ealing W5 4NB Troxler are sure to be Sunday 1st December, 8pm household names soon, as This production was inspired by the NAMES project AIDS quilt, well as Jamie Jones. which is the largest piece of artwork in the world and contains over Who is your favourite 48,000 panels. It was the first musical to use HIV/AIDS as a subject cabaret performer? matter and paved the way for musicals such as ‘Taboo’, ‘Falsetto’ Maisie Trollette. She’s like and ‘Rent’. OutWest will be doing a one off performance of this to family. raise funds to assist those with HIV and AIDS in West London.

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QX_977_Informer.indd 15 26/11/2013 18:21 For full listings see Musts & Maybes, pages 48-54 or the What’s On section at www.qxmagazine.com

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29/11/13: TONKER 29/11/13: PUSH THE BUTTON XXXMAS Tonker are supporting the European Gay Ski Week in March PARTY 2014 and this Friday they’re having a pre-party at the Eagle. It’s south London’s campest night of pop music, the unashamed OBVS that Tonker would support a wintery sport, because Britney, Kylie and Madonna lovers congregate for some full on its main clientele come with Christmas celebrating – forget the Turkey or potatoes, here there built-in winter coats. The will only be cheese. And because it’s Christmas there’ll be a big fat grizzly bears will head to snow machine – imagine the pop videos we’ll be able to re-create. Eagle for some booze, a And expect the usual cruise and to dance to giveaways, the same some hot tunes. We pop classics and can’t wait. the regular crowd of crazy, camp, Christmas- loving hotties.

Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, SE11 5HY. 9pm-3.15am. £6.

Eagle London, 349 Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, SE11 Rob Holley 5QY. 9pm-3am. Free entry before 10pm/£6 after.

30/11/13: LEONA LEWIS @ G-A-Y One of the X Factor’s most successful winners, Leona Lewis, will be performing her new single ‘One More Sleep’ at

Hannah Barrett G-A-Y this Saturday. She’ll also be joined by the seventh act to have been voted off the X Factor, Hannah Barrett (How’s that for rubbing salt into the wound?) Not only will Leona be singing out and showcasing those amazing vocals, but she’ll also be turning on the G-A-Y Christmas lights… Whilst we turn on some boys in the crowd.

Heaven, under the Arches, Villiers Street, Charing Cross, WC2N 6NG. 10.30pm-6am. £5 wristband available from G-A-Y Bar

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E Mancunian Institution that takes over this eastern

N superstore, are having an extra special blow out this November, with resident DJs B Luke Unabomber, Jamie

U Bull and Lucy Locket being Jamie Bull joined by a very special guest who’s L guaranteed to get your disco

C feet moving until the early hours. Luke Unabomber

Dalston Superstore, 117 Kingsland High Street, E8 2PB. 9pm-4am. Free before 10pm/£5 after.

30/11/13: PONYSTEP Ponystep has emerged from the brains behind clubbing legend Boombox, and the magazine of the same name. With highlights in its history like Beth Ditto playing there you can expect some pretty amazing things when it descends upon one of the hottest and most packed East End basement clubs, East Bloc. DJs include Dave Kendrick, Jerry Bouthier, Nathan Gregory Wilkins, Cozette McCreery, Jack Sunnucks and Jonbenet Blonde. Hosted by Princess Julia.

East Bloc, 217 City Road, Shoreditch, EC1V 1JN. 10pm-6am.

30/11/13: XXL – WORLD AIDS DAY The furry guys at XXL are doing their bit to support World AIDS Day raising money JSV1MPHQE];LIXLIV]SY[ERXXS½RH]SYVWIPJEVIEPQERXSWLEGOSYXXS&VMXRI] with, or a furry fella to tickle your rear in the cruise maze, there’ll be something there for you. And the best bit is that it’s all in name of a good cause. So if you ½RHYWSRSYVORIIWMRXLIGVYMWIQE^I[I´VINYWXFIKKMRKJSVHSREXMSRW3/# Plus, XXL will match all donations £ for £.

Pulse, 1 Invicta Plaza, Southwark SE1 9UF. 10pm-7am. Members £8, Guests £15.

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L LM26+IPIGXVSERHLMTLSYWI will be joined by newer guys Tom Stephan FIEXWXSEFEGOHVSTSJ½PXL and The Men Who Fell To Earth, as well as PLENTY more C EGVSWWJSYVVSSQWSJ8VEHI'PEWWMG1SHIVR(MWGSERH0MXI;3; Vogue Fabrics, 66 Stoke %RHMXEPPXEOIWTPEGIEXXLI;SRHIVJYP)KKRMKLXGPYF*YGO'LVMWXQEW Newington Road, N16 7XB. HMRRIVERHTVIWIRXWXLMW]IEVEPP[IGEVIEFSYXMW8VEHI The Duchess of Pork 10pm-3am. £5. Egg London, 200 York Way, Kings Cross N7 9AX. 12pm-12am. Tickets from £10.

02/12/13: POPCORN - GRAFFITI Popcorn’s World AIDS Day fundraiser, raising funds for the Elton John AIDS Foundation, [MPPFIGIPIFVEXMRKQSHIVRWXVIIXHERGIEVXERHGYPXYVI[MXLPMZIKVEJ½XMEVXMWXWERHFVIEOHERGIVW 8LI]´PPEPWSFIEYGXMSRMRKSJJX[SGERZEWWIWQEHIF]PSGEPKVEJ½XMEVXMWXWERHTiffany De’ath will be GLSVISKVETLMRKXLIJERXEWXMGYVFERTIVJSVQERGIWXLVSYKLSYXXLIRMKLXNeroli and Adam Turner TPE]XLIQEMR¾SSV[MXLLil’ Rob and Sam DMSXEOMRKGSRXVSPSJXLISXLIVX[S¾SSVW

Heaven, under the Arches, Villiers Street, Charing Cross, WC2N 6NG. 11pm-5.30am. Free entry wristbands available at GAY Bar.

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-QX 977 CLUB NEWS SPREAD 2.indd 20 26/11/2013 18:33 DJ DJ ROBB WHITE OF THE WEEK @ CLUB TIN TIN CLUB TIN TIN TOP 10 1 – ‘New Hateration’ Louise Fresco & MK Remix This is probably one of the best Deep Nu-Disco tunes this year smashing up the HERGI¾SSVW+VIEXW]RXLWERHTIVGYWWMSR with a lovely bouncy deep bassline, so if you want to “get down on me” this track [MPPHSMXJSVWYVI

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QX_977 DJ OF THE WEEK.indd 21 26/11/2013 19:04 GABRIELLE @ G-A-Y 23/11/13 Heaven under the Arches, Villiers Street, Charing WORDS AND PHOTOS BY Cross, WC2N 6NG CHRIS JEPSON

ONCE AGAIN our weekly trip down to G-A-Y was chock full of surprises but this time no naked divas or boy band drop-ins, it was all about the top notch talent on stage. First up was X-Factor evictee Sam Callahan, and while we were never wowed by the songs he was given in the ITV shows, live on stage he really shone. From Ed Sheeran to a bit of dubstep and the Goo Goo Dolls, his trio of tracks showed versatility and really rather good vocals, all topped off by the tightest tummy we have seen since Van Damme was a Universal Soldier. The second show of the night was from UK soul legend Gabrielle, celebrating the anniversary of her chart topping début single, ‘Dreams’, with ‘Now and Always: 20 Years of Dreaming’, the double CD retrospective of her career. She treated us to no less than 6 tracks with gorgeous smoky vocals including hits ‘Out Of Reach’, ‘Rise’ and of course ‘Dreams’ with nothing but an acoustic guitar, two backing singers and the really rather cute beat boxer Hobbit providing accompaniment. Considering most of the audience were in nappies when ‘Dreams’ came out she went down a storm and everyone knew all the words to sing along. Looks like this retrospective album is not so much a career finale but a launch pad to the next chapter, and we can’t wait.

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QX_977_Clubs.indd 22 26/11/2013 19:27 QX 977 MASTER 1.indd 25 26/11/2013 18:19 TheMenWhoFell2Earth 3rd Birthday WORDS BY 23/11/13 MARK STOREY East Bloc, 217 City Road, PHOTOS BY Shoreditch, EC1V 1JN CLIFF JOANNOU

YOU CAN THROW all the hard-bodied gogos in tiny Aussie Bum undies you like at a podium crowded with mega-pouting transsexuals and a screaming diva on a mic that you like, but to us there are really just three things we want from a decent night out: hot tunes, a cool crowd, and a venue that never fails to deliver. Last week’s third birthday bash by TheMenWhoFell2Earth was all of that and then some. By half-midnight, East Bloc was shaking its basement foundations to the impressive selection of funked-up, disco-tinged, deep-fused whatever you wanna call it house sounds of TheMenWhoFell2Earth. As the duo switched between deck-control, the music escalated to show that the gay scene really can deliver quality away from the music- by-numbers sounds of other queer dancefloors. Then came the modern legend that was Jim Stanton to show that this man knows his tunes beyond the fabled confines of his own Horse Meat Disco. It was a night you should be looking to visit soon because we’re already a little bit in love with TheMenWhoFell2Earth.

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QX_977_Clubs.indd 24 26/11/2013 19:31 QX 977 MASTER 1.indd 23 26/11/2013 19:58 ROOM SERVICE 21/11/13 WORDS BY Miabella DARREN PALFREY 12-13 Greek Street, PHOTOS BY Soho, W1D 4DL DIMITRIS THEOCHARIS

THURSDAY NIGHT has long been about looking your best and heading down to Room Service, and usually waking up lying next to a mysterious Adonis. However, what happens when you’re in the amorous mood on a Monday? Or you’re not looking your best? Or you can’t get on the list? Well that’s where new mobile site GPScort.com comes in. It’s like Grindr for escorts, so you can find yourself an available hot guy, any day of the week. It had its launch party at last week’s Room Service and, of course, we went along. It was quite some night, with the GPScort guys covering us in stickers, plying us with drinks and then taking our photos as soon as we arrived, after which we stumbled onto the dancefloor, where we caught Kris Di Angelis playing his ‘Hate’ project track featuring our very own Patrick Cash! And it seemed GPScort wasn’t the only one celebrating a birth as we then bumped into our favourite prince of dancehall, Mark-Ashley Dupé, celebrating his birthday with a big bottle of Grey Goose. So after many vodkas, and hot hunks, we were finally ready to leave, upon which those kind guys at GPScort thrust an energy drink into our hands, to ensure we didn’t fall asleep on the night bus… Or the hot Swede!

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QX_977_Clubs.indd 26 26/11/2013 18:43 QX 977 MASTER 1.indd 25 26/11/2013 14:34 ENERGY BEARS 16/11/13 Barcode, 69 Albert WORDS BY Embankment, Vauxhall, TOM REDKID SE1 7TP PHOTOS BY DOS FOTOS

I FEEL SORRY FOR anyone who wasn’t at Energy Bears at Barcode on Saturday night! Robb White’s hirsute disco funhouse had bears and their hunters, fags and their hags mixing it up with 5 DJs, 3 porn stars, 2 dance floors and 1 dusky chill-out room making this a night to remember! The lights! The music! The porn stars! The sexy musclebears! All bumpin’n’humpin edging’ us closer, closer... Front bar DJs-about-town Nico De Ceglia and Rob C charged us up with funky urban classic re-mixes pierced with crisp electro-tech beats and undercurrents of throbbin’ bass. Sinister sounds perfect for snaking our way through to the main bar where Mr. White himself split the decks with Mickey Galliano and Severino’s self-described “get-your-tits-out-for-the-boys” groovy, uplifting, deep house. And they did! Damn, these guys are hot! (I mean if you go for the young, toned, muscled, hairy/smooth beefy chest kinda guys.) Add to the mix all the funky folk who are really into their music and are out to have fun. It’s no wonder Energy Bears has been a club mainstay for 4 years. Just as the music hit hardest, up on the center stage popped British porn Bottom of the Year, Justin King, joined by jockstrapped Aaron Steele and Drew Diver showing a worked up crowd what they do best till sweat poured off the ceiling as hostess Raoul salsa- ed her way into our hearts. But mine has to go to the 2 Eduardos: one bartender from Brazil who “loves it here because there is less homophobia than back home.” And the other, from Croatia, who gave me a large drink cuz he liked my T-shirt… It’s yours baby, anytime you like I’ll be glad to leave it on your floor.

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QX_977_Clubs.indd 28 26/11/2013 18:45 QX 977 MASTER 1.indd 29 26/11/2013 18:22 RUPERT STREET BAR 50 Rupert OF THE Street, Soho, W1D 6DR WEEK Rupert Street has a very special treat lined up for the World AIDS Day weekend with legend of pop and superstar of gay scenes across the world, Mr Boy George playing on G-A-Y BAR their decks! Yes, George 30 Old Compton Street, Soho, W1D 4UR, 2pm-9pm Rich B will spinning the tunes on This Sunday 1st December for World AIDS Day, G-A-Y Bar are Friday 29th from 10-11.30pm, teaming up with Soho sexual health clinic 56 Dean Street to ensure supported by resident DJ Rich everyone in gay London can know their HIV status with sixty second B from 8pm. Boy George took finger-prick. Everyone who gets tested gets a number that is entered some time out of his busy into a draw to win £1,000 (announced at 10pm). And for everyone schedule to talk to us here: who gets tested, G-A-Y will donate £10 to the Elton John AIDS Foundation! Know your status and help those living with AIDS in the world today… What better way to commemorate the importance of Exclusive! Boy George chats to QX... World AIDS Day? What was the first gay venue you visited? The first gay place was actually a club ‘Bangs’ in the 70s. I remember boys dancing together to ‘Chez Chez La Femme’ by The Savannah Band. I felt very liberated especially as I was with my ‘sort of’ girlfriend Laura who kept telling me I was gay. She was right! You’ve been playing more gigs on the gay scene recently. How does it feel to reconnect with the gay community? I’ve never been exclusively a gay scene DJ because most gay promoters are too mean to book me! [Laughs] I prefer the harder gay places like Fire because they seem to get my style. I don’t mind if the crowd is gay or straight as long are they are into the music. Tell us about your new album. It’s not a dance record, but it has groove with the reggae stuff and bits of 70s funk. I’m not sure I’d even call it a ‘pop’ record because modern pop is very stylised. I think it’s a great bunch of songs, and it has an uplifting and positive vibe!

COMPTONS 51-53 Old Compton Street, Soho, W1D 6HN Comptons have Around the Candelabra from 8pm Neil Hodgson on Thurs 28th, with their resident pianist Lee Read Lee Read tinkling the ivories in the Soho Club Lounge, and playing all your requests from 8pm. Fri 29th sees resident DJ Dave Young playing your favourite Vauxhall classics from 9pm-late, and Sat 30th is resident DJ Jo Publik on the decks from 9pm-late also. And don’t miss their World AIDS Day on Sunday 1st Dec special where Fat Tony is bringing his exceptional club brand Deelooded to Soho for one night only, fundraising for GMFA Fat Tony and The Food Chain.

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Angel HALFWAY TO Crystal D’Canter HEAVEN 7 Duncannon Street, Charing DMS Cross, WC2N 4JF On World AIDS Day (Sun 1stt Dec) Halfway 2 Heaven have CIRCAC Adam Turner their usual stellar lineup of CKK 626 Frith Street, Sunday and acid-tongued Soho,S W1D 3JN wit Mrs Moore from 4pm, AAt Circa Bar but bumped up into a huge ono World AIDS charity banquet of cabaret DayD (Sun 1st for you, with special guests Dec),D prepare Martha D’Arthur, Mitzi Macintosh and Aaron yourself for a Alexander plus a number of surprise acts! very special, Entrance to this all-day extravaganza is free but unique and perhaps once-in-a-lifetime sight: the DJs are taking donations will be encouraged; toss your coins into over the bar! Promising a fundraising spectacular, The DJ Takeover buckets collecting for the gay men’s health charity, sees Circa’s celebrated DJ family serve you drinks all night, GMFA. Plus there’ll be a raffle with prizes ranging including Dusty O, Kris Di Angelis, Munroe Bergdorf, Adam from a night in a 5 star hotel to tickets to a range Turner, Jonathan Bestley and Sam DMS. 20% of all drinks of West End shows. sold will be donated to the Food Chain charity!

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Myra Dubois

TWO BREWERS BREWERS 114 Clapham High Street, SW4 7UJ On Friday 29th at The Two Brewers they have the brilliant MANBAR Miss Lola Lasagne taking over the stage with entry £5 after 79 Charing Cross Road, Soho, WC2H 0NE 10pm and the club staying open and swinging on till the grand On Sunday 1st December don’t miss the Sunday School World old time of 4am! And the World AIDS Day special promises AIDS Day Special featuring the cream of the crop of London’s to be truly spectacular, bringing Weatherfield to Clapham most fabulous gay cabaret acts, hosted by Myra Dubois. All with a Coronation Street themed special, hosted by La Voix proceeds from the event will go to the Food Chain to help them and featuring acts Rose Garden, Titti la Camp, Martha deliver meals to people living with HIV. Myra will be joined D’Arthur, Crystal d’Canter, Kelly Mild and Sandra, by Sarah Bodalbhai on the piano, plus guest acts Duncan amongst many more! Plus you could win a dinner with the stars Day, Alp Haydar, Lonnie Gordon and DJs Amox and Hey of Corrie! Beginning at 4pm, ending at 3am. Baylen playing disco pop anthems! Starting at 6pm with an 11pm finish, also there’ll be happy hour all day, where pints of Fosters/ Strongbow and house spirits + mixers are £3.

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QX_977_Bars-Cabaret.indd 32 26/11/2013 18:56 QX 977 MASTER 1.indd 35 26/11/2013 17:38 WEST 5 56 Pope’s Lane, Ealing, W5 4NB At 8pm on Sunday 1st December the only performance of Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens will be taking place at West Five to commemorate World AIDS Day. The piece is described as a celebration of lives lost to the illness. The production intends to do just that, but also continue to raise awareness of the illness but most importantly honour those who have lost their lives, those who are living with the illness and the loved ones that help them cope. Tickets are priced at £5 and are available on the door on the night from 6.30pm or by visiting elegies.outwest.org.uk/tickets

CENTRAL STATION 37 Wharfdale Road, King’s Cross, N1 9SD Central Station are pre-empting the Sunday World AIDS Day event with an extravaganza on their Saturday night of 30th November!er! JJoinoin LolaLola LLasaganeasagane giving you the llaughs,aughs, cabaret and giggles with freeee entrentryy bebeforefore 10pm and Miss LasagneLasagne ggracingracing the stage from 11.1511.15pm.pm. There will be collectionsons fforor GGMFAMFA all night as welll as rafflesraffles and prizes, and the ppromotersromoters of the Undergroundground CClublub downstairs willl be joining in the fundraising happiness with their individual events, an ongoing process over the weeks. Please Lola Lasagne dig deep!

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Thursday 28th November KEVIN WALSH BACKING THE STARS @ 8pm

Friday 29th November MYRA DUBOIS presents MITZI MACINTOSH 9pm

Saturday 30th November ROSE GARDEN SATURDAY MARKET SLASH SWOP SHOP from 4pm followed by BEARS DOWN STAIRS with JUSTIN SWIFT.

Sunday 1st December WORLD AIDS DAY/

CRYSTALS BIRTHDAY from 4pm followed by MRS MOORE

Monday 2nd December

KEVIN WALSH BACKING THE STARS @ 8pm

Tuesday 3rd December

IN BED WITH BETTE 9pm

Wednesday 4th December COME MIME WITH ME WITH MITZI MACHINTOSH

QX 977 MASTER 1.indd 35 26/11/2013 17:46 Going, Going,KU! As Soho gets ready to commemorate World AIDS Day this Sunday, we caught up with Ku Bar owner Gary Henshaw to find out more about the now infamous Ku WAD Auction, where there are only some of the Ku Bar boys up for grabs amongst the prizes!

We’re all looking forward to like a certain boy etc. the Ku WAD Auction. What What gave you the idea for are the prizes available this the WAD Auction in the first year? place? Dinner at Claridges, a night at the The auction started a few years ago W with tickets to Andrew Lloyd and has just snowballed into one Webber’s new show ‘Stephen of our biggest events of the year. Ward’, trips to Barcelona, Paris Incredibly we have raised £10K in and The Vineyards of Lake Garda, 2011 and £11K last year. I mean a tour of the Downton Abbey sets, that’s just in a couple of hours, it’s tea at the Dower House, a crazy! Someone even bid for ‘walk-on part’ at Monty me last year, I was forced Python’s Spamalot while by a packed chanting four friends enjoy the bar to take my top show, or a personal off – at my age! But it’s private tour of the all for a great cause, I Coronation St set couldn’t say no. with Charlie Condou. Which charity does Priceless! the money go to and And we hear the beautiful Ku who does their work help? Bar boys are being auctioned We have supported The Food off again this year? Chain from day one. They offer Following the auction, winners food and nutritional support for get to accompany their prize boy those affected by HIV and AIDS. to an exclusive champagne & It’s a meals-on-wheels type service. canapé reception in Ku’s first floor They are a small enough charity to Champagne Bar. It’s about thank- really appreciate our support. ing the boys for their service, and Everyone involved is passionate spending a little time chatting with about what they do. It’s not lim- them and mingling with the major ited to LGBT persons, it supports sponsors. There is always a bit of everyone who need their support friendly competition between the and I find that brilliant. They are a customers proving how much they wonderful charity.

The Ku World AIDS Day Auction is at Ku Bar, 30 Lisle Street, WC2H 7BA on Sunday 1st December from 6pm-3am.

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QX_977_Bars-Cabaret.indd 36 26/11/2013 19:03 QX 977 MASTER 1.indd 37 26/11/2013 18:50 OLD SHIP 23/11/13 17 BARNES STREET, LIMEHOUSE, E14 7NW WORDS AND PHOTOS BY MARK STOREY

SANDRA WAS IN top form at the Old Ship last Saturday, dragging a poor Australian boy on to the stage, slagging him off for dodging taxes and pissing off back to convict land! Then her roving eye landed on barman Nick, renamed Miss Ross for the night, and his favourite punter Miss Hepitotass! When a poor New Zealand girl fell into Sandra’s warpath of hilarity, the mistress of muck immediately enquired if her tits where real and, before she could answer, hit them with her microphone! ‘Yep, they’re real,’ attested the anarchic performer. Everyone was in stitches for the whole time she was on stage, bringing the house down on the Old Ship, especially when she was ribbing the DJ who dared to miss her cue – or was it part of the act? Apparently he had to wipe off Sandra’s semen from the CD, we’re not saying anything! A mixed crowd of younger guys and a few older punters were congregated for the evening’s fun, and from the smiling faces and sound of laughter, everyone was having a whale of a time, even if she was twenty minutes late! (Waiting for the driver apparently.) Till next Sunday at the Old Ship, where a different cabaret star takes over each week!

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QX_977_Bars-Cabaret.indd 38 26/11/2013 18:59 OLD SHIP 17 Barnes St, Limehouse E14 7NW 2 mins from Limehouse DLR Tel: 0207 791 1301 www.oldship.net WORLD AIDS DAY

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QX 977 MASTER 1.indd 39 26/11/2013 18:23 Being Positive! Diagnosed HIV positive in May 1986, at the height of the AIDS epidemic, Spike Rhodes has been consciously open about his status from Day One. Having spent five of those years with a T-cell count of only thirteen (normal count is over seven hundred) and overcoming several AIDS defining illnesses, Spike now lives by Jason Reid a full and healthy life thanks to modern medical advances. He has performed in, created and directed drag theatre companies on the scene for over thirty years – with two of those early companies being set up specifically to raise money for HIV charities – and today he leads celebrated drag theatre company, The Drama Queens. To tie in with World AIDS Day, Jason Reid spoke to Spike about living as an openly positive gay man, and the issues surrounding it...

‘COMING OUT’ as positive wasn’t something that Spike had to think twice about. At a horrific time for the gay community, he was already visiting hospitals on a regular basis, watching on as close friends suffered. He told me: “When I got my diagnosis there was a lot of fear. It was a truly terrifying period. What I found was that people were scared of being open because it would usually mean, or they’d fear that, things would just fall apart: relationships, families. Nobody knew how to react. The only other openly positive person on the scene was Adrella. I thought by being open, too, it may hopefully help other people.” Using his own status as a mechanism to support others has always been very important to Spike: “I’ve always wanted people to realise it doesn’t have to be a lonely place and we could all help each other through it. I never thought of myself as an advocate. I’ve always just been of the thinking that AIDS has rights. Just like any other section of society. But I was never banging a big old drum; I just said, if anyone wanted to talk to me about it they could. And that’s what happened.” That societal stigma that attaches itself to living openly positive is one that many people do have trouble dealing with – preventing them from disclosing their status to family, friends and possible partners. It is, if you will, one of the last great taboos, even today. “There were occasions where I felt as though I was under the spotlight. For example, if I met a guy in a bar/club, it was always something I told them first. I wanted it out of the way. I felt that was my responsibility, not because I was going to have unsafe sex; I wanted to be honest with them. People’s reactions varied from the truly horrified to other positive guys thanking me and empathising. Those moments made all the rejections worthwhile.” Thirty years on, and although the world has changed dramatically, Spike believes attitudes have been slower to change: “As controversial as it may sound, I disagree with the language the health agencies use at times. A HIV test should be something that people want to do. Especially so as an active gay man. And sadly there are still a lot of people who don’t test, which is why the virus spreads. Ultimately, It comes down to education,” Spike says. “The governments over the years have let down the gay community and health agencies big time. The agencies can only do so much. If HIV and sex education is not taught at school level wide enough then the message can’t get out there. It upsets me when I hear of parents opting out of their children learning about it. They need to know. It’s Photo: Chris Jepson part of the human psyche that I’ve never really understood.” Living and coping with the physical and emotional effects of HIV is something that has changed, however, thanks to antiretroviral combination therapy and increased support. I asked Spike what his message would be, as someone who has gone through it all in the worst possible way and come out the other end, to the next generation of gay men. He told me: “Love yourself, love your body and have a great deal of fun. It’s a fabulous scene out there. But always look after your body. Don’t be embarrassed or ashamed if you slip up one time. Go and see someone, get tested, and be reassured that they will not judge you. They will look after you. It’s the best policy to know your status.”

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QX_977_Bars-Cabaret.indd 40 26/11/2013 19:01 QX 977 MASTER 1.indd 41 26/11/2013 14:41 REVIEW: MUSIC NEWS ARTS

But is it ‘ALMOST IN sweetie? Stag’sA LEAGUE BY PATRICK CASH ShowbusinessOF ITS OWN’

THEATRE LEAGUE OF ST GEORGE one wouldn’t expect a new writer the father (Jim Walker) – and Bliss The Hope Theatre, 207 Upper Street, Islington, N1 1RL to want to tread the same ground. proved that she could write strong, Running until Saturday 30th November, 7.30pm. £14 (£12 concs). Whereas’ Bliss’s play obviously punchy dialogue, aside from a had significant differences, for me bizarre scene with two old women personally it couldn’t shake itself that seemed to hold no coherence out of Kureishi’s shadow, nor that to the wider structure. The punk The League of St George is the Adam meets an Indian waiter of other recent re-examinations song interludes added edgy energy. second part of a double-bill of named Nilay in a public toilet for of the 70s/80s period such as However, ultimately it just felt like new writing at the exciting Hope sex and begins a relationship with Shane Meadow’s This is England, it had all been done before. Theatre in Islington, dedicated to him this conflict reaches breaking to which the League of St George We are living in a time of the showcasing new talent. Written by point, as balances personal suffered in comparison. ".0ANDTHE%$,ANDWHERETHERE Georgia Bliss, it follows the story happiness against the risk of Whereas productions deserve are palpable tensions between the of young Adam (the wonderful exposure to his bigoted, violent to be assessed on one level upon white working class and ethnic Oliver Tunstall), who has to adjust fellow gang members. their own merits, they also require minority communities. Bliss could his personal conflict between the Sounds familiar? Yes, because a critical judgement of how they have set this play in 2013 and have racist and homophobic League this is essentially the plot to Hanif fit into their wider cultural sphere. had an exciting and exceptional of St George skinhead gang of Kureishi’s seminal My Beautiful There was some excellent acting in production on her hands. As it which he is a part, with his hidden Laundrette, where this concept is this production – particularly from was, unfortunately it didn’t feel homosexual tendencies. When wrought so finely and poignantly, the skinheads themselves, and that this content needed revisiting.

FILM OF THE WEEK CHIM-CHIM-CHEREE

JEUNE & JOLIE (18) SAVING MR BANKS French filmmaker recounts how Walt Disney Francois Ozon (Tom Hanks) wooed PL once again explores 4RAVERSAWONDERFUL%MMA transgressive sexuality Thompson) to sign over film in this story of a rights to Mary Poppins. A 17-year-old girl (Marine hugely entertaining film that Vacth) who secretly keeps us laughing then lands a BY JACK LEGER starts working as a superb emotional punch. hooker. By avoiding the usual reasons a girl would do this, Ozon forces us to identify with her and her family while challenging our preconceptions. It’s a strikingly fluid film that raises questions without offering glib GIRLS ON FILM IN THE WORKS answers. And Charlotte Rampling pops up in a key role. Chloe Grace Moretz is Game of Thrones hunk CARRIE in this unnecessary, Kit Harington will star in DVD OF THE WEEK overwrought remake about Spooks: The Greater Good, a telekinetic teen bullied by a big-screen movie based on BOYS ON FILM X classmates and her religious THECLASSIC46SPYTHRILLERs (18) fanatic mum (the fabulous And muscle-head Dwayne For its 10th collection *ULIANNE-OORE s%VA"IRTHISTLE Johnson will lead Seal Team of gay shorts, Peccadillo travels to Cuba in the flimsy 666, an elite team of Navy has found eight twisty British drama DAY OF THE commandos taking on an films about young men FLOWERS. Worth watching army of struggling to make for the sexy Carlos Acosta and demons. sense of their sexuality. Christopher The best two feature Simpson as strikingly explicit locals she sex: Little Gay Boy Christ Is Dead (France) and Inflatable Swamp (UK). meets. Other highlights are Headlong (Belgium, pictured), about a young dancer who meets a sexy thug, and A Stable For Disabled Horses (UK), about a particularly awkward leaving do.

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QX_977_Review Section.indd 42 26/11/2013 18:31 QX 977 MASTER 1.indd 45 26/11/2013 14:42 REVIEW:ARTS NEWS MUSIC

T H E A LT E R N Who would have thought? Notorious ‘men only’ plus interactive life drawing, adult entertainment A T legendary club Backstreet opens its doors for a and a Christmas Crackers photo booth with I V new monthly night on Thursday 28th and wait Loulou Reloulou, MJ Woodbridge, Lewis E for it, girls can come too. The fabulous James Burton, Naddy Sane, Oozing Gloop and E

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HOWDY DOODY CAMPERS.

We LOVE a bit of formulaic pop song that for me makes a nice album ABBA here at “O” interlude, but is not really single material. There Towers. Sadly is not much going on here, really. The chorus is there has not been average, the production is probably the best money anything new for can buy, but Olly certainly is NOT the new Robbie donkey’s years. Very Williams. This plodding little ditty is as forgettable sad. This may change as most of the winners of aforementioned if rumours are true programme. Not for me this one. I would still like and the originals get off to see him naked and sitting on my face though . BY DUSTY O their lazy bums and feed us Talking of X Factor people, desperate homos what we really, really want! Till old thunder thighs herself then we will just have to make do with ex-Abba is releasing an Xmas song lady Agnetha and her rather good single releases. for our hilarity. Yes, Agnetha has decided her second solo single for Leona Lewis is back aeons is to be ‘The One Who Loves You Now’ with a song aimed and it is being hammered by Radio 2, thank god. smack at the Xmas This is a simple but sweet ballad where Agnetha No 1. It has bells, shows us she has “still got it”. Nothing fancy it has a choir, it has here. Just a cute melody and catchy chorus with Leona bellowing away in her unique and lovely vocal. I can imagine this on that breathy voice, though “Glee” or in a Disney movie, no grinding beats on it is a bit naff. This should this or fancy over production. Classy old skool not stop it doing well, however. Poor Leona, it is Euro pop is what this is all about. It is great too! as if they have run out of ideas for her. Someone Olly Murs is a nice lad. A tad dull for obviously thought this was a great one. I do like it my liking and let’s face it he has been even if it is literally cheese on toast. I am sure it handed a rather nice little career will be a huge hit and one we will be hearing for on a plate after his X Factor years to come, like Mariah’s but without the range. antics. The show is back on The only thing Leona has ever done of interest to TV so anyone who has ever me personally was when she got punched in the been involved will obviously be gob in Waterstones. releasing a single so they can go Speak soon on the show and push it. ‘Hand Love,Dustina on Heart’ is a mid-tempo and x

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QX_977_Review Section.indd 44 26/11/2013 18:32 QX 977 MASTER 1.indd 45 26/11/2013 18:05 INDUSTRIE-OUS

Seven Dials has always been associated with showcasing great men’s fashion from savvy local designers to the best of international brands. With that in mind, Australian men will all let out a collective sigh of relief as the latest uber stylish label to open its doors is none other than one of Australia’s most loved brands – Industrie.

Having been around since 1999, Covent Garden Industrie store Industrie has earned its place is currently showcasing the as one of fashion’s most sought complete Winter 13 range after brands in Australia due to featuring top quality leather their great cuts, superb fabrics jackets starting at £109.95, and very affordable price tag. urban and denim jackets from From beach wear to winter £84.95, basic hoodies, classic essentials – Industrie always shirts and beautiful Merino seems to get it right while wool knitwear all from £49.95, consistently raising the bar with jeans and chinos starting at each collection, ensuring the £54.95 and a selection of winter brand is relevant, original and shoes and boots that is right on above all, effortlessly cool. the money for this time of the After a barrage of requests year starting from only £79.95. from Londoners and expats The store will also stock to bring the brand to London various seasonal updates from XLI]LEZI½REPP]WYGGYQFIHXS the Australian stores to keep the pressure - opening a smart the range fresh. boutique-style store. The store To celebrate the arrival of this is open from 10am to 8pm iconic brand here in London, Monday to Wednesday, 10am QX magazine and Industrie to 9pm on Thursday, 10am to have teamed up to offer QX 8pm on Saturday and 12pm to readers an exclusive 20% off VIP 7pm on Sunday – giving you GEVHW8LI½VWXTISTPIXSKS plenty of time to check it out into the store and say they are after work. QX readers will each receive Known for their instantly one of these awesome cards. recognisable masculine cuts The cards are limited so go in and antipodean style, the today so you don’t miss out.

Industrie is at 19 Earlham Street, Covent Garden, WC2H 9LL. Find out more on the Industrie website www.industrieclothing.co.uk or check out the Facebook page www.facebook.com/IndustrieUK Advertorial

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QX_977 INDUSTRIE.indd 46 26/11/2013 15:20 QX 977 MASTER 1.indd 47 26/11/2013 17:53 YOUR GUIDE TO THE WEEK'S BEST BAR MAYBES CLUB CABARET EVENTS IN LONDON MUSTSFULL LISTINGS AVAILABLE AT WWW.QXMAGAZINE.COM

THURSDAY 28TH NOVEMBER off Charing Cross Road, WC2. Molly Moggs at 2 Old Compton club spot. 11pm-3am. Hot pop sounds get Street, Soho, W1D 4TA. 8.30pm. G-A-Y Camp Attack at Heaven, Villiers CLUBS & EVENTS played out across the club, drink FREE. Big laughs and song from Jeff Street, WC2N 6NG. 11pm-4am. FREE Flaunt at Manbar, 79 Charing Cross specials, cute guys and an almost Kristian. with wristband from G-A-Y Bar. Main Road, Soho, WC2H 0NE. Open ‘til unrivalled highly electric atmosphere. Bette’s Boozy Thursdays at The Floor plays 70s, 80s, 90s, 00 & 01, Star 3.30am. FREE. Singing legend Lonnie Open 7 days. Admiral Duncan, 54 Old Compton Bar is 02 to present day, videos in the Gordon and DJ Nick Shepherdson Street, Soho, W1D 4UD. Midday- Pop Room. Musical theme sing-along in present a fresh and energised set of BARS & CABARET 11pm. Bette Rinse begins the the Departure Lounge. disco tunes that will keep our sexy The Black Cap, 171 Camden High weekend early at this legendary Soho Fitladz at Barcode, 69 Albert gogo dancers moving until you drool. Street, NW1 7JY. The legendary pub (from 9pm). Embankment, Vauxhall, SE1 7TP. G-A-Y Porn Idol at Heaven, Villiers Camden puc, club and cabaret bar. VS at Circa, 62 Frith Street, Soho, 10pm-8am. £6 members, £8 guests. Street, WC2N 6NG. 11pm-4am. FREE TONIGHT: Lady La Rue entertains, W1. Munroe Bergdorf and Adam The club session for horny lads with entry flyers from G-A-Y Bar. The followed by DJ Miles. Turner get you warmed up for hot grooves from the DJs and an return of London’s biggest amateur Windsor Castle, 152 Bath Road, Room Service with some unrivalled extended cruise space. strip night as contestants of all Hounslow, TW3 3ET. Open till late. Thursday night hotness! Spunk at Manbar, 79 Charing shapes, sizes and looks take part to Great gay bar near Heathrow invites Cross Road, Soho, WC2H 0NE. win £100. Final winner wins £1,000. you to party and drink till the small 8pm-3.30am. FREE. Manbar DJs Think you have what it takes to win? hours with the hot boys and nice FRIDAY 29TH NOVEMBER play commercial dance for a crowd Simply text 07789 553 868 to take drinks. TONIGHT: Cookie’s Karaoke. of upferit blokes and butch boys part! TONIGHT: Christmas theme, Queerly Out Classic at Escape Bar, CLUBS & EVENTS ‘til late. Resident DJs Rob C, Nick stripping to Christmas classics. 8-10 Brewer Street, Soho, W1F 0SU. Delice Dream Pre-Party at The Shepherdson, Little Rob and Amox. Vibe at Barcode, 69 Albert 9pm-3am. Classic pop gay student Shadow Lounge, 5 Brewer Street, Plus, pole dancing beauties. Embankment, Vauxhall, SE1 7TP. night in the heart of Soho. Soho, W1F 0RF. 11.30pm-3am. Ku Klub at Ku Bar Lisle Street at 30 11pm-4am. Weekly night of urban Ted’s TV/TS Night at Ted’s Place, The sexy Delice boys will be in town Lisle Street, Leicester Square, WC2. sounds from DJs Nastee and Robski, 305a North End Road. 7pm-2am. £5. to give you a sultry show at one of 10pm-3am. FREE b4 11pm, £5 after. with PopVibe in the bar and the The night for fellas in frocks and their Soho’s most sumptuous clubs! Pop perfection and hot floor fillers upstairs SexVibe cruise room. admirers. Tonker at Eagle London, 349 as Ku’s hot 3 spin the tunes in its Naked Boys Reading – Derek Demon’s Karaoke at BJ’s White Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, SE11. downstairs basement club spot. Jarman at Vogue Fabrics, 66 Stoke Swan, 556 Commercial Road, E14. 9pm-3am. FREE b4 10pm, £6 after. Newington Road, Dalston, N16 7XB. 9pm-3am. FREE. Sing-along to your Big bear bar boozing, cruise and BARS & CABARET 8pm-midnight. £5 advance, £7 OTD. fave hits. tunes has disco, house & soul, then Rupert Street – Boy George DJ The night that defies convention. Backing The Stars at Halfway 2 sexier vibes to the early hours for set at 50 Rupert Street, Soho, W1D Delivers what the title suggests, with Heaven, 7 Duncannon Street, Charing hot daddies, bears, cubs and their 6DR. Soho’s sexy bar is ready to tonight’s theme celebrating Derek Cross, WC2N 4JF. Long running admirers. TONIGHT: Pre-party for shine again with weekly DJ sets to get Jarman. popular central London cabaret pub European Gay Ski Week. you in the weekend mood! TONIGHT: Ku at Ku Bar Lisle Street, Leicester with Kevin Walsh at 8pm. STP at Vogue Fabrics, 66 Stoke Culture Club legend and pop prince Square, WC2. 6pm-3am. FREE. The Two Brewers, 114 Clapham High Newington Road, N16 7XB. Boy George plays a rare intimate DJ legendary Tasty Tim and guests spin Street, SW4 7UJ. Bar open 4pm-2am. 10pm-3am. £5. STP is back bitches, gig in Soho (10-11.30pm). the pop sounds and floor fillers. FREE b4 10pm, £3 after. Popular ready to get sweaty and tear the roof The Black Cap 18th Birthday at Boy Trouble at East Bloc, 217 South London cabaret/club spot. off, with a soundtrack of Swizz Beats, 171 Camden High Street, NW1 7JY. City Road, Old Street, EC1V 1JN. Enriched at Rupert Street, 50 Rupert Timbaland, Pharrell and other R’n’B 10pm-3am. £4 after 10pm, £5 after 10.30pm-4am. FREE. A new Thursday Street, Soho, W1D 6DR. From 8pm. moves. 12am. Party rocking gay pub up experience for East London gays as New weekly dance session from Dirty Diana at Dalston Superstore, in the North of London, gives you East Bloc opens its doors for an early Rich B with Marcella Puppini of the 117 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8 2PB. premier cabaret and entertainment weekend house explosion of double- Puppini Sisters. 9pm-4am. FREE b4 11pm/£5 after. East all weekend. TONIGHT: The ‘Cap drop pop, Italo house, and anything Bar Titania at 75 Charing Cross London’s most royally salacious disco celebrates its coming of age with its else. Road, WC2H 0NE. 6pm-11pm. The for homos and their homies makes its 18th birthday celebration. Gigolo at The Shadow Lounge, 5 central London bar with a sexy, slick DSS debut – with DJs including Lady Ku Bar Frith Street, 25 Frith Street, Brewer Street, W1F 0RF. 10pm-3am. look and regular entertainment. Cartel, Anton Douglas, Frankco Harris, WC1D 5LB. Open ‘til 3am. Ku Bar’s £5 conc, £8 others. Midweek soiree TONIGHT: Alex Meli on keyboards and Disco Smack, Pep Sanchez and more. little brother stretches across three for sluts with attitude at Soho’s vocals with open mic from 8pm. Push the Button XXXMAS Party at floors for that perfect Soho warmup famous Shadow Lounge. Hot Around the Candelabra at RVT, 372 Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, drinking session and a little dance happenings as porn stars provide the Comptons, 51-53 Old Compton SE11 5HY. 9pm-3.15am. £6. Push with downstairs DJs. TONIGHT: All eye candy. Street, Soho, W1D 6HN. the Button kicks off the festive season floors open ‘til 3am! Room Service at Miabella, 12-13 12pm-midnight. Lee Reed tinkles with a bang, featuring DJs Hits&Mrs Central Station at 37 Wharfdale Greek Street, Soho, W1D 4DJ. his ivories for a Soho sing-along and requests taken via Twitter all Road, Kings Cross, N1 9SD. Open 10pm-3am. Don’t you dare miss this (8-10pm) in one of Old Compton night: @PTButton ‘til 4am. FREE b4 10pm, £5 after. fiercely social, sexy club spot, playing Street’s oldest and classiest venues Super Electric Party Machine at Cabaret and DJs ‘til late. TONIGHT: edgy and upfront house. Expect hot with complementary bar food. East Bloc, 217-219 City Road, EC1V Cabaret from Adora Dix. gogo eye candy and hosted by fab West 5 at Pope’s Lane, South Ealing, 1JN. 10pm-6am. £5. The freshest, BJ’s White Swan at 556 scene faces. Get snapped by the W5 4NB. Open from 8pm. FREE. hottest talent playing the best new Commercial Road, Limehouse, E14 legendary resident papper! Ealing’s hugely popular club, bar and music with DJ Larry Tee and guests 7JD. 9pm-4am. FREE entry before G-A-Y Late at 5 Goslett Yard, cabaret spot. at this hot-ass East London basement 10.30pm/£5 after. Popular East

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London pub. TONIGHT: Cabaret from Admiral Duncan, 54 Old Compton SATURDAY 30TH NOVEMBER 10pm-3am. £5. Special Christmas Rose Garden. Street, Soho, W1D 4UD. Midday- pre-edition of infamous night Dirtbox Fantastic Friday at Halfway 2 Midnight. The popular Soho bar CLUBS & EVENTS welcomes DJ Sparber from NYC Heaven, 7 Duncannon Street, Charing spins out floor fillers from DJ Frankie G-A-Y presents Leona Lewis at joining residents The Duchess of Cross, WC2N 4JF. 9pm-3am. The Fantastique. Heaven, Villiers Street, WC2N 6NG. Pork, Princess Michael of Cunt central London cabaret hot spot. Discipline at Circa, 62 Frith Street, 10pm-5am. Discount wristbands and Gibson with a musical orgy of TONIGHT: Myra DuBois presents Mitzi Soho, W1D 3JN. Open ‘til 4am. from G-A-Y Bar. The palace of pop hi-NRG, Italo, New Beat, electro, hip Macintosh. Soho’s intimate but packed-out bar/ and quite possibly the world’s most house, synthpop and heavy amyl- The Two Brewers at 114 Clapham club spot watches Munroe Bergdorf famous gay club packs out this nitrate. High Street, SW4 7UJ. 5pm-4am. and friends werq the floor! TONIGHT: cavernous venue. TONIGHT: X Factor Trannyshack at The Black Cap at £5 after 10pm. London’s legendary Open till 4am! special as Leona Lewis returns to 171 Camden High Street, NW1 7JY. cabaret and club bar. TONIGHT: The Duke of Wellington at 77 the G-A-Y stage. Plus, the latest 8pm-3am. Legendary north London Cabaret from Lola Lasagne. Wardour Street, Soho, W1D 6QA. contestant to be voted off, Hannah late night club, bar and cabaret spot Club Delicious at West 5, South Open till 12am. Free entry. Get ready Barrett. welcomes back the ‘Shack TV/TS Ealing, Pope’s Lane, W5 4NB. for another great weekend by kicking XXL – World AIDS Day Fundraiser gurls and their fans for lashings of 9pm-late. Crazy fun times at West 5 things off at the venerable Duke with at Pulse, 1 Invicta Plaza, South Bank, fun. with DJs and special acts on stage, DJ Gordon John. SE1 9UF. 10pm-7am. £8 members, G-A-Y Late at 5 Goslett Yard, come join in the non-stop party! Comptons of Soho at 51-53 Old £15 guests. 4 huge arenas, a mega off Charing Cross Road, WC2. TONIGHT: Cabaret from Compton Street, Soho, W1D 6HN. cruise space and chill space. Plus, 11pm-3am. Hot pop sounds, drink The Windsor Castle at 152 Bath 12pm-midnight. The grand dame of big tunes from resident DJs Christian specials, cute guys and a pop perfect Road, Hounslow, TW3 3ET. Open till Soho. DJ Dave Young from 9pm. M, Alex Logan, Joe Egg and Mark atmosphere. 2am. £3 10-11pm, £5 after. Great gay Camp As Tits at The City of Quebec, 12 Ames. TONIGHT: Raising money Hombre at Manbar, 79 Charing bar near Heathrow invites you to party Old Quebec Street, Marble Arch, W1H and awareness for Mildmay, with all Cross Road, Soho, WC2H 0NE. and drink till the small hours with the 7AF. 10pm-3am. Venerable institution donations matched £ for £! 8pm-3.30am. FREE. Manbar DJs hot boys. TONIGHT: DJ Rob. of the gay scene rocks out some pop Ponystep at East Bloc, 217 City play commercial dance for a crowd of The Yard at 57 Rupert Street, Soho, classics for an evening of fun. Road, Shoreditch, EC1V 1JN. upferit blokes and butch boys ‘til late. W1D 7PL. Open till 12am. FREE. Bar Titania at 75 Charing Cross 11pm-6am. £7 before midnight, With guest DJs plus pole dancing Renowned as one of Soho’s most unique Road, WC2H 0NE. 4pm-late. Aperitivo £10 after. Exciting new night hits beauties.Official Beyond pre-party. and popular destination venues, with a opens the evening for Italian nibbles Shoreditch basement club that gets Ku Klub at Ku Bar Lisle Street at 30 huge outdoor terrace. WORLD AIDS DAY from 6-8pm, then it’s fun ‘til late at all the hotties and club kids in the Lisle Street, Leicester Square, WC2. SPECIAL: Dishing out delicious treats this sumptuous Soho bar. TONIGHT: know every weekend: DJs Dave 10pm-3am. FREE b4 11pm, £5 after. in exchange for donations to the Food Fabulous soul singer Chris Royal Kendrick, Jerry Bouthier, Nathan £3 with wristband/membership. The Chain. croons from 8pm. Gregory Wilkins, Cozette McCreery, party continues in Ku’s basement club The Edge at 11 Soho Square, Soho, Kazbar at 50 Clapham High Street, Jack Sunnucks and Jonbenet Blonde. with hot pop and floor fillers from the W1D 3QE. 8pm-3am. FREE b4 SW4 7UL. 5pm-1am. Funky Clapham Hosted by Princess Julia. DJs. TONIGHT: All floors open until 10.30pm. Four floors of fun! Open dance bar with guest DJs tonight! Homoelectric at Dalston Superstore, 3am! extra late with top tunes from the DJs The Victoria at 186 Hoe Street, 117 Kingsland High St, E8 2PB. Sweatbox Foam Party at 1-2 spinning top 40, pop, funky house and Walthamstow, E17. Open ‘til 3am. 9pm-4am. Free b4 10pm, £5 after. Ramilies Street, Soho, W1F 7LN. 24 more. ‘Looney Tunes’ from 11pm, in Lively East End pub features karaoke Mancunian institution Homoelectric hours. £16. Unwind and release some the Paparazzi Lounge, playing radio every Friday! bring their pansexual party down to tension after a stressy week with the edits, guilty pleasures and club classics. Sauna Bar at 29 Endell Street, the big smoke for an extra special all the fun of the foam at Sweatbox’s Plus House Knights with DJ Nikos T. Covent Garden, WC2H 9BA. blowout, with residents Luke original weekly party. WORLD AIDS DAY SPECIAL: Dishing 11.30am-2am. £16. £5 off entry with Unabomber, Jamie Bull and Lucy Duckie at RVT, 372 Kennington out delicious treats in exchange for QX advert. The only licensed gay Locket. Lane, Vauxhall, SE11 5HY. 9pm-2am. donations to the Food Chain. sauna in the West End, open ‘til super Le Porteur at Salon at The Mayfair £6. Authentic London club/ Frankie’s Fun-Filled Friday at The late every weekend. Hotel, Stratton Street, W1J 8LT. entertainment nighter. Hosted by Amy 8pm-1am. FREE. Boho Presents a Lamé, record players Readers Wifes. new weekly Saturday night party at Beyond (after-hours) at Area, Albert the award winning hotel bar. Heated Embankment, Vauxhall, SE1 7TP. outdoor smoking lounge, comfy 3am (Sunday morning)–midday. cabanas and sofa booths. Plus, DJ Mammoth mash-up explodes across sounds from Massimo Paramour and Area with big main floor upfront house D’Johnny. and edgier sounds in the Chapel Bar. Club Tin Tin at Barcode, 69 Albert Embankment, Vauxhall, SE1 7TP. BARS & CABARET 10pm-7am. Club Tin Tin returns to Central Station at 37 Wharfdale Barcode with two rooms playing great Road, Kings Cross, N1 9SD. Open music and main room house guest ‘til 4am. FREE before 10pm. Cabaret DJ David Oh with Aamyko Iddiols, then DJs ‘til late. TONIGHT: Cabaret and front room nu-disco from DJs from Lola Lasagne World AIDS Day Alex Georgiou, Robb White and Kurt fundraiser for GMFA. Potter. The Two Brewers at 114 Clapham Delice Dream at The Shadow Lounge, High Street, SW4 7UJ. 5pm-4am. 5 Brewer Street, Soho, W1F 0RF. FREE b4 10pm, £7 after. Cabaret and 10pm-3am. TONIGHT: Delice Cabaret, clubbing ‘til late at the famous venue. featuring the sexy Delice Dream boys Rupert Street at 50 Rupert Street, doing their naughty show and special Soho, W1D 6DR. Kick Saturday night guest star live Lizzie France with the off with sounds from the hottest DJs special guest Delice DJs on hand to get at this lively Soho bar. you dancing. Windsor Castle, 152 Bath Road, Dirtbox at Vogue Fabrics, 66 Stoke Hounslow, TW3 3ET. Open till 2am. Newington Road, Dalston, N16 7XB. £3 from 10-11pm, £5 after. Great gay

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bar near Heathrow invites you to party ‘Looney Tunes’ from 11pm, in the Duncan, 54 Old Compton Street, City Road, EC1V. 10pm-late. FREE and drink till the small hours with the Paparazzi Lounge, playing radio edits, Soho, W1D 4UD. All the big pop hits b4 midnight/£5 after. A new home for hot boys and music from DJ Rob. guilty pleasures and club classics. from the Pop Tarts on a Saturday the Sunday night weekly session as TONIGHT: DJ Westy. Plus House Knights with DJ Chris night at this legendary Soho pub Pagano and co. pack their bags and Klub Klimax at West 5, South Ealing, Brogan. WORLD AIDS DAY SPECIAL: spot. head off to a new home at sexy East Pope’s Lane, W5 4NB. The popular Dishing out delicious treats in Saturday Market + Bears Bloc basement. Now featuring Punk’d West London club, bar and cabaret exchange for donations to the Food Downstairs at Halfway 2 Heaven, 7 in Room 2 and HOT Kitsch POP in spot, with added Piano Lounge fun. Chain. Duncannon St, WC2N 4JF. Open ‘til Room 3. TONIGHT: The Old Ship at 17 Barnes Street, 3am. Rose Garden’s Saturday Market Pure Disco Foundation at Kazbar, The Quebec, 12 Old Quebec Street, Limehouse, E14 7NW. 9pm-late. from 4pm. Bears go down with the 50 Clapham High Street, SW4 7UL. Marble Arch, W1H 7AF. Legendary Local gay bar in East London’s gruff guys and Justin Swift from 9pm. 5pm-9pm. Clapham gets dancing gay boozer near Marble Arch, with Limehouse. Bar Titania at 75 Charing Cross every Sunday with this new weekly Pick N Mix on the stage at 10pm. The Victoria at 186 Hoe Street, Road, WC2H 0NE. 4pm-12am. session hosted by UK soul house BJ’s White Swan at 556 Walthamstow, E17. Open ‘til 3am. Commercial tunes, house, pop diva Angie Brown. Featuring DJ Edu Commercial Road, Limehouse, E14 Free before 9.30pm, £5 after. and even a dash of disco, at this Gantous. 7JD. 9pm-4am. £5 b4 12am/£7 after. Lively East End pub that turns extra enjoyable, friendly Soho bar, with a S.L.A.G.S./Chill Out with Charlie FREE in Halloween costume. 100% flamboyant on the weekends! bit of glitz. TONIGHT: Rob Nes from Hides TV at RVT, 372 Kennington funky house and club classics in the Ku Bar at Ku Bar, 30 Lisle Street, 8pm. Lane, SE11 5HY. 2pm-midnight. mix. Chinatown, WC2H 7BA. 6pm-3am. Saunabar at 29 Endell Street, £8, £5 after 7.30pm. Long-running Circa at 62 Frith Street, Soho, W1D One of London’s hottest gay bars Covent Garden, WC2H 9BA. and hugely popular afternoon/ 3JN. Open ‘til 4am. Soho’s intimate and clubs, with the hottest boys 11.30am-2am. £16. £5 off entry evening clubbing session slot playing but packed-out bar/club spot with both behind the bar and in front of it, with QX advert. Unwind after a night anthemic tunes, big remixes and the most amazing DJ booth in town! stretching over three floors. TONIGHT: of clubbing at the only licensed gay house. Plus, Charlie Hides TV delivers TONIGHT: Now open ‘til 4am! X Factor screened live and Ku’s VJs sauna in the West End. a multi-media cabaret collision from Comptons of Soho at 51-53 Old mix videos across the screens. The Yard at 57 Rupert Street, Soho, 5.30pm. Compton Street, Soho, W1D 6HN. The Big Saturday Night Out at Duke W1. 2pm-12am. Soho’s largest outdoor 12pm-midnight. The grand dame of of Wellington, 77 Wardour Street, space, with balcony overlooking central BARS & CABARET Soho pulling in a more blokey crowd. Soho, W1D 6QA. Open till 12am. courtyard. A smoker’s paradise! Great G-A-Y Bar & 56 Dean Street DJ Jo Publik from 9pm. Free. DJs on rotation each Saturday house music. Sister bar to the Edge. World AIDS Day Testing at 30 The Yard at 57 Rupert Street, Soho, keep this happening pub fresh and Ku Bar Frith Street, 25 Frith Street, Old Compton Street, Soho, W1D W1D 7PL. Open till 12am. FREE. party-central! WC1D 5LB. Open ‘til 3am. Ku Bar’s 4UR. Midday-Midnight. Get a free, Renowned as one of Soho’s most G-A-Y Bar at 30 Old Compton Street, little brother stretches across three instant HIV test at G-A-Y Bar with 56 unique and popular destination venues, Soho, W1D 4UR. Midday-Midnight. floors for that perfect Soho warmup Dean Street clinic between 2-9pm. this Halloween the venue will be FREE. Soho’s palace of pop with the drinking session and a cheeky dance Every test gets a number that get you specially decorated and staff suited and hottest videos screened out across with downstairs DJs. TONIGHT: X entered into a draw to win £1,000 booted to match! WORLD AIDS DAY the venue, great drinks deals and Factor screened live. (announced at 10pm). Plus, G-A-Y SPECIAL: Dishing out delicious treats discount entry wrist bands for G-A-Y Kazbar at 50 Clapham High Street, will donate £10 for everyone tested to in exchange for donations to the Food @ Heaven. SW4 7UL. 4pm-3am. Free entry. the Elton John AIDS Foundation. Chain. The George and Dragon at 2 Funky Clapham bar with stylish swish. Ku Bar Lisle Street World AIDS The Edge at 11 Soho Square, Soho, Blackheath Hill, Greenwich, SE10 TONIGHT: DJ Mark Norton on the Day Auction at 30 Lisle Street, W1D 3QE. 2pm-3am. FREE b4 8DE. 6pm-4am. Free entry. Friendly decks and host Glendora on the floor. Leicester Square, WC2H 7BA. 10.30pm. Open super-late with DJs Greenwich-based boozer with 6pm-midnight. FREE. The annual spinning upfront vocal house, with hot welcoming atmosphere and top World AIDS Day Auction! Raising gogo dancers gyrating away as Felicia cabaret at the weekends. WORLD AIDS DAY money for the Food Chain, Ku Bar Van Cartier exudes fabulousness. Guilty Pleasures at The Admiral SUNDAY 1ST DECEMBER hosts a phenomenal auction. Prizes include: dinner at Claridges, a stay CLUBS & EVENTS at the Nadir Hotel, a Eurostar break, In Remembrance, Support and a weekend in Barcelona and a visit to Unity at St Anne’s Church, 55 Dean Lake Garda! Plus, bid for a date with Street, Soho, W1D 6AF. 4-6.30pm. the Ku Bar boys! An opportunity to reflect and to write Two Brewers World AIDS Day names of loved ones or say them Fundraiser at 114 Clapham High aloud, to light candles in faith, hope, Street, Clapham, SW4 7UJ. 5pm-2am. remembrance and love. With short Show 6.30pm. £5 after 8pm, £6 after presentations from 6pm. 9pm. Sunday fun at this legendary Fitladz Sunday at Barcode, 69 south London cabaret spot. TONIGHT: Albert Embankment, Vauxhall, SE1 A host of talent as La Voix, Rose 7TP. 10pm-6am. £7, £5 members. Garden, Titti La Camp, Martha Horny boys get ready for a sporty D’Arthur, Crystal D’Canter & Kelly Sunday scrum. Uplifting tunes, upferit Mild, Sandra and more raise funds guys and that notorious extended for Oasis Wandsworth. Plus, bid for cruise space. auction prizes including dinner with Horse Meat Disco at Eagle London, the stars of Coronation Street.. 349 Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, Circa – DJ Takeover at 62 Frith SE11 5QY. 8pm-4am. £6. The Street, Soho, W1D 3JN. Open ‘til 1am. HMD gymkhana continues to shake The Soho swish spot gets taken over Vauxhall down every week. Residents the DJs as the usual decknicians serve spin super-disco sounds with weekly the drinks! Featuring your bar bitches guests. Dusty O, Kris Di Angelis, Munroe Hot 2 Trot at East Bloc, 217-219 Bergdorf, Adam Turner, Jonathan

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@ Heaven. Fat Tony and hilarious onstage entertainment this madcap night of balls and booze. The Edge at 11 Soho Square, Soho, from mistress of the acerbic quip, Hey Baylen plays the tunes. W1D 3QE. 2pm-3am.UP WFREEA b4R DS West 5 – Elegies for Angels, Miss Myra Dubois! TONIGHT: World Hard-Up Mondays at Sweatbox, 10.30pm. Open super-late with DJs Punks and Raging Queens at AIDS Day special with guests Sarah 1-2 Ramilies Street, Soho, W1F 7LN. spinningSAT 30THupfront vocal NOV house, with hot Pope’s Lane, South Ealing, W5 4NB. Bodalbhai, Duncan Day, Alp Haydar, 24 hours. Under 25s FREE all day, gogo10pm dancers gyrating away as Felicia Open from 8pm. FREE. Disco with Lonnie Gordon and DJs Amox and £16 others. Finding Mondays hard to Van Cartier exudes fabulousness. Aaron from 10.30pm. Happy hour Hey Baylen. handle? Relieve the pressure with this Comptons of Soho at 51-53 Old all night. TONIGHT: OutWest stage a Windsor Castle, 152 Bath Road, specially discounted day for under Compton Street,k NSoho,’ W1DM 6HN.i new production of ‘Elegies for Angels, Hounslow, TW3 3ET. Open till 2am. 25s (ID required) at Soho’s only gay 12pm-midnight.Pi Punks and Raging Queens’ for WAD. Great gay bar near Heathrow invites sauna. SUN 1ST DEC Doors 6.30pm. Tickets £5. you to party and drink till the small Bear Trap at Manbar, 79 Charing 9pm Bar Titania, 75 Charing Cross hours with the hot boys. TONIGHT: Cross Road, Soho, WC2H 0NE. The George and Dragon at 2 Road, WC2H 0NE. Bar opens Karaoke with Lee. 8pm-2am. FREE. Weekly beary Blackheath Hill, Greenwich, SE10 12pm. Glittering new regency-style The George and Dragon at 2 Monday. Great drink specials with top 8DE. 6pm-4am. Free entry. Friendly bar invites you to wind down the Blackheath Hill, Greenwich, SE10 tunes from DJ Julio Bravo and hosted CabaretGreenwich-based boozer with weekend in style. TONIGHT: Andrea 8DE. 6pm-2am. FREE. Friendly by Nandi Ohh. welcoming atmosphere and top Gorse sings jazz, soul and cabaret Greenwiched based boozer with Ku Klub at Ku Bar Lisle Street, 30 TOPPINGcabaret at the weekends. & BUTCH Poptarts from 7pm. Raising money for AIDS welcoming atmosphere and top Lisle Street, WC2. 10pm-3am. FREE. presents Guilty FUNDRAISER Pleasures at TheFOR charities with Titty’s Tantalising cabaret at the weekends. DJs play the weekend out on a wave WORLD AIDS DAY Trannies all day. Strictly Sunday at BJ’s White Swan, of hot pop. EVERY MONDAY The Edge at 11 Soho Square, Soho, 556 Commercial Road, Limehouse, G-A-Y Late at 5 Goslett Yard, W1D 3QE. 2pm-3am. Soho’s multi- E14. 6.30pm-3am. Retrotastic tea of Charing Cross Road, WC2. 9pm fl oored gay wonder, which every gay dance offering everything from 11pm-3am. Late night dancing spot HOSTED BY man of London needs to visit at least ballroom to disco via Latin, Salsa, for pure-pop enthusiasts doing the STEVE TEE 9.30pm once! 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W1D 6QA. Open till 12am. Free. week, come for an after-work tipple, The foam fl ies at 7, 8 and 9pm. Drinks deals extravaganzas at the a cheeky midweek night out with the 152 Bath Road, Duke with £2 selected drinks all day boys or a night cap and cruise on your BARS & CABARET Hounslow, TW3 3ET. and DJ Hothouse Club. way home. Eagle London, 349 Kennington Lane, Windsor Castle, 152 Bath Road, Spotlight at Manbar, 79 Charing Vauxhall, SE11 5QY. 9pm-2am. Free TEL: 0208 572 0306 Hounslow, TW3 3ET. Open till 2am. Cross Road, Soho, WC2H 0NE. before 10pm, £3 after. The renowned Great gay bar near Heathrow invites 4pm-2am. Topsie Redfern hosts this Eagle Bar is now open seven days a WEST you to party and drink till the small weekly singing contest (from 10pm). week, come for an after-work tipple, hours with the hot boys. TONIGHT: The Man Meets Men at BJ’s White Swan, a cheeky midweek night out with the LONDON’S ‘Castle’s weekly quiz! 556 Commercial Road, Limehouse, boys or a night cap and cruise on PREMIER The Old Ship at 17 Barnes Street, E14. 8pm-1am. FREE. Cruisy chill out your way home. Limehouse, E14 7NW. Local gay bar night for East London lads. The Admiral Duncan at 54 Old CABARET in East London’s Limehouse. Cookie Monstar at Molly Moggs, 2 Compton Street, Soho, W1D 4UD. The ‘Q’Factor Karaoke at City Old Compton Street, Soho, W1D 4TA. Midday-11pm. Weekly cabaret at this VENUE of Quebec, 12 Old Quebec Street, 8.30pm. FREE. Song and sinful fun legendary Soho pub. Marble Arch, W1H 7AF. From 9pm. from Cookie. Record Box at Manbar, 79 Charing THURS 28TH NOV FREE. Grab the mic and show the Retro Tuesday at Duke of Cross Road, Soho, WC2H 0NE. Open boys what ya can do with your gob! Wellington, 77 Wardour Street, Soho, ‘til 3.30am. DJ legend Hifi Sean COOKIES Hosted by Stevie Tee. W1D 6QA. Open till 12am. Free. presents an eclectic mix of music with KARAOKE Comptons of Soho at 51-53 Old Nineties music plus old school games anthems, rare and special, B-side and Compton Street, Soho, W1D 6HN. will rev up your Tuesday night. other gems of musical delight. 12pm-11.30pm. The real queen of Tiffaney Wells Double Bill at The Jivin’ Julie’s Karaoke at Bar Titania, Soho. Bar £2.50 on popular drinks Quebec, 12 Old Quebec Street, 75 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0NE. FRI 29TH NOV from 5pm. TONIGHT: DJs on rotation. Marble Arch, W1H 7AF. The legendary 6pm-11pm. Jivin’ Julie gets you all Rupert Street at 50 Rupert Street, Soho, gay pub in the heart of London. singing and jivin’ throughout the fun- MUSIC FROM W1D 6DR. The trendy Soho drinking spot Tiffaney Wells presents two shows at packed night. DJ ROB celebrates Monday with Bar £2.50! 9pm and 10pm. Bingo with Martha at West 5, Star For A Night Karaoke at The In Bed with Bette at Halfway 2 Pope’s Lane, South Ealing, W5 4NB. 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Eagle London Cruise bar for blokes, bears, and spot minute’s from the DAY CRUISE (1pm-7pm. £6) Uplifting tunes, upferit guys at 349 Kennington Lane, their mates. West End. NIGHT CRUISE (7pm-1am. and cruising. Vauxhall, SE11 5QY. 9pm-2am. The Underground Club, The Backstreet at MA1 £7). Free drink, cloakroom, The Hoist at Arches 47b Members FREE, guests FREE 37 Wharfdale Road, Kings Backstreet, Wentworth re-entry. Dark corners, & 47c, South Lambeth b4 10pm, £3 after. Men-only Cross, N1. PANTS (1-6pm) Mews, Mile End, E3 4UA. catch a dirty movie, indulge Road, Vauxhall, SW8 1RH. cruise bar for blokes, bears, Underwear fun. SPANKZ 10pm-3am. FREE in tall your carnal side. S.B.N. (2-7pm) Fully naked and their mates. (6pm-10pm) CP night for boots, members free b4 Pleasuredrome at cruise club. N.B.N. vs S.E.X. Underwear/Naked at rougher, tougher play. 10.45pm/£4 after, £7 others. Arch 124 Cornwall Road, (9pm-1am) Wear what you Ted’s Place, 305s North End Followed by COME TO Leather/rubber club spot. Waterloo SE1 8XE. Open like, do who ya want. Rd, W14. 7pm-midnight. £4. DADDY (10pm-2am). Fitladz at Barcode, 69 24/7. £15, £12 under 25 with Hero’s at MA1 Backstreet, Strictly underwear only. SexVibe at Barcode, Albert Embankment, ID. FREE towel. Cruise all Wentworth Mews, Mile Vault: Cruise at 139b- 69 Albert Embankment, Vauxhall, SE1 7TP. day and night with plenty of End, E3 4UA. TONIGHT: 143 Whitfield Street, W1T Vauxhall, SE1 7TP. 9pm-9am. £8. Get sexy at rooms to play. Licensed bar. Monthly Lycra night. 5EN. 1-7pm, £6. 7pm-1am. 10pm-late. £5. Cruise this cruise/club sesh! Horny The Underground Buff at MA1 Backstreet. £7. Cruising session at this session, dark room and lads, hot grooves, plus Club at Central Station, (Closed 1st Sunday of the horny hot spot. horny house beats while extended cruise space. 37 Wharfdale Road, Kings month for Lycra night Vibe and PopVibe spin The Underground Cross, N1. PANTS (1-6pm, HERO’S) WEDNESDAY 4TH DECEMBER urban and pop tunes Club at Central Station, £4) Best undies for the Vault: Underwear/ Vault: Cruise/ downstairs. 37 Wharfdale Road, boys. FEET ON SATURDAY Cruise at 139b-143 Underwear at 139b-143 (7pm-midnight) Saturday Whitfield Street, W1T 5EN. Whitfield Street, W1T special foot fetish fun. UNDERWEAR (1-7pm. £6). 5EN. DAY CRUISE (1-7pm. The Hoist at CRUISE (7pm-1am. £7). £6) Then UNDERWEAR Arches 47b & 47c, Free drink, cloakroom and (7pm-1am. £7) Free South Lambeth re-entry. Just pants b4 7pm, drink, cloakroom and Road, Vauxhall, then cruise ‘til late. re-entry. Get down to your SW8 1RH. BOYS S.O.P. at The Underground underwear. & SIRS (2pm-7pm) Club, Central Station, 37 The Underground Spanking/CP/ Wharfdale Road, Kings Club at Central Station, punishment event. Cross, N1. 1pm-midnight. 37 Wharfdale Road, SBN AFTERDARK £7. Yellow fun for Kings Cross, N1. SWEET (Arch 1) Dresscode waterworks fans. WEDNESDAY Cruising naked and live show. night for TV/TS luvvers. Buff at MA1 MONDAY 2ND DECEMBER HARD CRUZ (10pm-1am). Backstreet, Cruise/Dark Room at Eagle London Cruise Wentworth Mews, Ted’s Place, 305a North End at 349 Kennington Lane, Mile End, E3 Rd, W14. 7pm-midnight. £3. Vauxhall, SE11 5QY. 4UA. 6pm-10pm. For hungry, horny buggers. 9pm-2am. Members FREE, £8 members/£9 Pleasuredrome at guests FREE b4 10pm, £3 guests (free drink/ Arch 124 Cornwall Road, after. Men-only cruise bar coat check). Waterloo SE1 8XE. Open for blokes, bears, and their Naked, shorts or 24/7. £15, £12 under 25 mates. underwear. with ID. FREE towel. Cruise Buff at MA1 Backstreet, The Backstreet day and night with plenty of Wentworth Mews, Mile at MA1 Backstreet, rooms to play. Licensed bar. End, E3 4UA. 7pm-11pm. £8 Wentworth Mews, The Underground members/£9 guests (free Mile End, E3 4UA. Club at Central Station, drink/coat check). Horny, 10pm-3am. Free 37 Wharfdale Road, Kings naked cruise party. Heated members b4 Cross, N1. PANTS (1-6pm) outdoor ‘naked’ smokers 10.45pm/£4 after, BUTT NAKED (6pm-10pm) terrace. £7 others. Free all Strip down and get off with N.B.N. at The Hoist, night in rubber. like-minded guys. HARD 47b South Lambeth Road, CRUZ (10pm-1am, free Vauxhall, SW8. 9pm-1am. SUNDAY 1ST entry) Hard cruzing for £8.50. If ya like to strip, but DECEMBER horny guyz. prefer to add some boots Chill Out at Ted’s Vault: Cruise/Stripped or a tasteful accessory Place, 305a North at Vault, 139b-143 Whitfield rather than go full monty.

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