clubs | bars | cabaret | life One in 2 million KU BAR /0tNOVEMBER QXMAGAZINE.COM gets ready to celebrate its 2,000,000 th customer! Suitable only for persons years of 18 and over. Halloween in London! photos from last week’s biggest festive festering events print + web iPad + iPhone QX_974_Cover.indd 1 05/11/2013 19:08 THE INFORMERTHE WHO, WHAT, WHY, WHERE, WHEN OF GAY LONDON… FILM AND FUNDRAISE FRINGE! FILM FEST 2014 FUNDRAISING PARTY Vogue Fabrics, 66 Stoke Newington Road N16 7XB Saturday 9th November, 9pm-3am 2014 will host the fourth Film Fest, which is a not-for-profi t festival that celebrates London’s queer creative scene and welcomes everybody. There will be an event at Vogue Fabrics to raise funds towards the festival where they’ll screen some fabulous shorts to give you a teaser of what to expect next year, followed by a night of music from amazing DJs including The Duchess of Pork and Kostakis. SURVIVAL OF THE OH-SO- FITTEST www.justgiving.com/running4boys THE POLARI Nick, Alf, Ben, Aaron, Seb and Pascal will be competing in the Men’s FIRST BOOK Health Survival of the Fittest challenge this November, to raise funds PRIZE 2013 for Stonewall. This 10k extreme obstacle course will see this hot band Wednesday 13th November 2013 of boys tackle mud, ice and gigantic infl atables across Battersea Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, Power Station. And if that’s not enough to get you digging in your Belvedere Road, SE1 pockets then they’ve promised us they’ll be taking a team photo with The time is fast approaching for the their kit off if they raise enough – so check out the above link and winner of The Polari First Book Prize get donating! 2013 to be announced! Chosen from the following shortlist: ‘Tony Hogan Bought me an Ice Cream Float before he Stole my Ma’ by Kerry Hudson; ‘Catching Bullets - Memoirs of a Bond Fan’ by Mark O’Connell; ‘The Sitar’ by Rebecca Idris; ‘The Tale of Raw Head & Bloody Bones’ by Jack Wolf; and ‘The Murder Wall’ by Mari Hannah. There will also be appearances from Charlotte Mendelson, Dean Atta and Dee Chanelle. We can’t wait. Check out www.southbankcentre.com for more details. 2 QX_974_Informer.indd 2 05/11/2013 17:23 PRISON BITCH FEST ADONIS ZODIAC CALENDER WIN A WENTWORTH BOX SET ! www.forever-imagery.com It’s the Australian drama set One of our favourite in an Australian Women’s photographers of hot Prison that has had us all boys, Alex Wightman, gripping the edges of our has released a new seats. Every Monday night zodiac calendar (when it screens on Channel featuring boys in 5) our Facebook feeds fi ll various states of up with our opinions and undress, emulating reactions to the latest antics the star signs. of these incarcerated blue It’s quite mouth- ladies. If you missed the watering and, series don’t worry, the box even better, set is out now. QX have all profi ts are already managed to get donated to their hands on fi ve copies Cancer Research and, because we love you, UK. So, reach we’re giving them away to for your fi ve lucky readers. Just email wallets, help your name and address to a good cause [email protected] to and then enter, placing ‘Wentworth’ in gaze into the subject fi eld, to arrive by a different 5pm 14th November. Winners Adonis’s picked at random. Good luck. eyes each month… A HORSE MEAT REVOLUTION EDF LONDON EYE CHEMSEX STUDY November 14th CHEM-SEX STUDY FOR RESIDENTS OF LAMBETH, www.revolutioninsound.com SOUTHWARK & LEWISHAM We’ve seen our partying take Email: [email protected] over fi elds, parks, houses and 020 7927 2793 even museums, but this has www.chemsexstudy.com to be one of the most original, Sigma Research is conducting a new study about Chemsex even by gay standards. On 14th among gay men in South London. They re looking to talk November the EDF London Eye to guys in a confi dential interview about the kind of sex is being taken over by Red they have and the drugs they use. The fi ndings will help to Bull and 30 club nights; each inform the work of local charities and health professionals featuring a different brand, who work to support gay and bisexual men to manage their that showcases what they drug use and sexual health. You just need to be over 18, live have to offer, to all who enter. in Lambeth, Southwark or Lewisham and have used chems Our very own Eagle London (particularly GHB/GBL, crystal meth or mephedrone) during nightclub is taking part and sex in the last year. They will pay you £20 for taking part. brining the mighty Horse Meat Disco to Waterloo! Check out www.revolutioninsound.com for more information and to fi nd out how to get your hands on some tickets. GLOBAL DIVERSITY PROGRAMME LAUNCHED STONEWALL’S GLOBAL DIVERSITY CHAMPIONS PROGRAMME www.stonewall.org.uk/globaldc With homosexuality being illegal in 78 countries, it means that there are more countries in the world where you can be arrested for being gay than those where gays are protected against discrimination in the workplace. Stonewall has recently launched the Global Diversity Champions Programme, which is a best practice forum for organisations that employ people globally. The ten major founding partners are Barclays, BP, Citi, Freshfi elds, Google, IBM, P&G, RBS, Simmons & Simmons and Thomson Reuters. With diversity software specialists Gender Gap, they’ll be sharing information about best practice, in specifi c countries, as well as seminars and discussions on the topic. For more information visit the above website. 3 QX_974_Informer.indd 3 05/11/2013 17:24 For full listings see Musts & Maybes, pages 50-54 or the What’s On section at www.qxmagazine.com For listings on the go, download the free QX GAY LONDON app at the iTunes store 07/11/13: VIBE 08/11/13: Vauxhall’s R&B night continues – but they’ve made a few EUROFEST changes. It’s still the same sexy vibe but it now comes with The UK’s biggest three rooms open, each offering something different. The Eurovision and main room will cater to all your R&B needs, while the front Europop night room will be serving PopVibe for those of you that love returns this your commercial music, and of course, the infamous upstairs weekend, with Velvet provides SexVibe where you can unwind (and unzip) with six hours of other guys in a relaxed cruise zone. Hedonism and head – non-stop music sounds good to us. from John Hagley, Barcode, 69 Albert Embankment, Vauxhall, SE1 7DP. Don Grant 10pm–6am. £5. and Dave Simmons. There’ll also be a live act from one of Sweden’s biggest pop stars, Velvet. This [MPPSJ½GMEPP]FIXLIGEQTIWX thing we’ll ever do – and we’ve done some pretty camp stuff in our time. But dressing up as Girls Aloud and performing a medley of their “hits” doesn’t even touch the sides of this. Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, SE11 5HY. 9pm–3am. £5 with QX advert b4 11pm, £8 others. Don Grant 09/11/13: LITTLE MIX @ G-A-Y They’re one of the most popular groups ever to take part in the X Factor, let alone win it – and we can’t wait for Little Mix to perform at Heaven. After a smash performance of their latest hit ‘Move’ (out now!) on X Factor, the cute quartet are sure to stir up a storm. They’ll also be joined by the fourth act to be voted off the X Factor – hot boy band Kingsland Road (swoon!) Heaven, Under the Arches, Villiers Street, Charing Cross, WC2N 6NG. 10.30pm–5am. £5 with wristband from G-A-Y Bar. QUICK LIL’ MIX QUESTION TIME How have you found the past year’s success, and what are you looking forward to with this new album? Jade: We’re so grateful! The past year has been incredible, our fans are absolutely amazing, they got us to where we are now. Perrie: With the new album, the main thing we want to get across is that we write, we sing, we get involved in the production. We don’t just stand there and get given the songs! Leigh-Anne: With DNA, we didn’t know what people were going to think and we hadn’t established ourselves yet, so it was about putting it out there and having fun with it. Now it’s like, this could make or break us. You’re at G-A-Y this week. How is that gig compared to others? Jesy: We’ve had so much fun when we’ve performed at G-A-Y before. Last time we were XLIVI[I[IVIGIPIFVEXMRKSYV½VWXFMVXLHE]EW a band – it’s actually crazy to think how much has happened since then! The G-A-Y crowd just knows how to have a great time so we can’t wait to perform our new single for everyone there! 4 -QX 974 CLUB NEWS.indd 4 05/11/2013 17:47 QX 974 MASTER 1.indd 5 05/11/2013 16:23 09/11/13: QUEER 09/11/13: MANBAR ‘HOMBRE’ S NATION From the start of November the home of the Beyond Pre-party has This month Queer Nation moved to the increasingly popular Manbar. There’ll be Beyond DJs W celebrates a whopping 23 spinning the hottest house tracks to get you pumped for an all-nighter.