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GAY LONDON
Lip-Sync
for your life
Are you ready to sparkle and shine? To deliver the lines and
mouth to the rhymes?
JONNY WOO
and
THE GLORY
are giving
print + web
JANUARY
QXMAGAZINE.COM
iPad + iPhone
Repression
is not a
solution for repression
You may recognize
Damien Killeen
as a buxom bar wench
at
KU Lisle Street
This week he kicks off a new series in which QX looks at
T
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GUM Clinic and you’ve got your big old
whore label around your neck.
The problem that a lot of people seem
to have within the gay community is that
it is not, apparently, a boat. Discreetness
is rarely priority and here ‘Big ol’ Whore’
is a clothing brand and the style du jour.
I’ve lost count of the amount of times gay
opinion has amounted to ‘if gays stopped
acting like cum buckets they would be
more accepted’ or ‘gays lack self-respect’
or even ‘gay men would be treated
normally if they acted more normal’. So
so many gay men clamouring for the same
thing - really I thought we established some
time ago it’s not a healthy slogan for us.
Repression is not a solution for repression.
This system is so all encompassing
socially, that a straight person can rarely
escape its burden; the drive towards
to smother that partner with a pillow
because you have fallen out of lust with
them and you think they stole your youth
and ambition - it leaves many people
shattered and depressed.
dick and you like dick automatically puts
you on the other side of that system.
so I guess that would be straight people.
You want me to act like a straight person
acceptance might lead us to try and
he sense of shame is
heavy in the GUM
clinic. Conversation
is non-existent. Being
here is tantamount
to wearing a neon
sign stating proudly
that you have had
sex; except no one
is proud here. All
that excitement and
satisfaction you got
from fucking Mark
from accounts seems
out of place. Because
you’re a whore who
had sex. Talking up sex is great when it’s all
smoke and mirrors and Malibu and Coke
but people really don’t like inescapable
labels and, so we’re told, no one wants
damaged goods.
Sexual purity is power. Purity is the
commodity you get to trade in at some
point for your happily ever after. You
accrue purity by being a stranger and
you maintain it by being discreet. Now
admittedly last weekend you had sex with
eighteen teenagers on a boat, but that
doesn’t count, that was a boat. Who’s
are, it’s Tuesday morning, you’re in the
“You want me to act like a straight person so you
have an easier time acting like a straight person.”
so you have an easier time acting like a
straight person. I can like musical theatre
and listen to Cher because straights are
pretty comfortable with that now, but
please don’t have too much sex with the
wrong people in the wrong places. I’ve
spent the majority of my life thinking
the same way so am pretty familiar with
the argument and have thus grown into
of a conservative, Mormon pamphlet
distributor. Gays seem to appreciate
this and I am often complemented with
how ‘un-gay’ I seem. Wonderful. We
can all achieve ungayness and the elusive
The system straight society instigated
is to idealise sexuality, to control, to
moralise, and if in doubt to deny, deny,
deny. When the motto does seem to be
‘don’t ask don’t tell’ it’s fairly odd seeing
emulate that system, to cram ourselves
back into it (in general gays love cramming
we are so keen to emulate isn’t creating
themselves. Why do we spend time
looking to straight models of behaviour
If a straight system of identity brings you
shame and dissatisfaction then create a
new system you can relate to. Sex and
relations with others are experiments
that offer you the chance of understanding
what it is you need from people. They
that ‘straight’ baggage.
on a doctor’s table at 9am with a nurse
inserting a cotton bud into your butt you
could relax, forget shame and take it for
what it is - a nice day out of the house.
Ku Bar is at 30 Lisle Street, Chinatown, WC2H 7BA.
Open 7 days a aweek.
Damien will be performing in the Arcola Queer Collective’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ at the
Arcola Theatre (24 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL) from Tuesday 20th – Saturday 24th January.
See our Arts feature on p.30 this week for more information.
The who, what, why, where & when of gay London…
The Vito Project Launch
Activist think tank
ReShape
and the
Cinema Museum
are launching the
Vito Project,
a
series of free monthly
screenings, bringing
generations of LGBTs
together to provide
an alternative space
and share ideas. Their
The
Celluloid Closet’,
a 1995 documentary
inspired by Vito
Russo’s seminal
book, exploring the
changing face of
queer representation
in mainstream cinema.
introduced by
Neil
Bartlett,
queer
author and director,
and
QX’s
Pat Cash.
THE BOYS UPSTAIRS
Above the Stag
presents a fast paced comedy about
sex, dating, friendship and all the blurry lines inbetween. It
premiered in the 2009 New York International Fringe Festival
where it played to an entirely sold-out run at the Soho
Playhouse, and received numerous rave reviews. The story
invites you into the fabulous living room of city guys who
handle relationships, careers and the city with style, scandal
and speciality cocktails. The comedy escalates when they set
Vito Russo
out if he’s gay!
Above the Stag Theatre, Arch 17, Miles Street, Vauxhall, SW8 1RZ
Wednesday 14th January – Sunday 15th February. Tues-Sat, 7.30pm,
Sun 6pm. £12-18.
www.abovethestag.com
‘The Celluloid Closet’ – Free Screening & Introductions
The Cinema Museum, 2 Dugard Way, Renfrew Road, SE11 4TH
Wednesday 21st January, 7.45pm. Free.
For more information: info.reshapenow@gmail.com
Stonewall teams
up with football
trailblazers
Homeless PA
and FC United of
Manchester
Stonewall have teamed up with community club
FC United
of
Manchester and
Homeless GA
to continue working to tackle
homophobia in football. They’ve created a video in collaboration to
support the
Rainbow Laces
campaign, talking about the impact
features interviews with women’s team goalkeeper
Mary Priestner
Matthew Walwyn
and focuses on the story
behind FC United’s involvement with Rainbow Laces
www.stonewall.org.uk/football
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Gay Star Travel Expo
A one-stop shop for LGBTI travellers, the Gay Star Travel Expo
returns for its sophomore year! Featuring the Attitude photo booth
and celebrity guests, you can also win a trip to Eurovision 2015
courtesy of
Visit Vienna
and win an
Ion camera.
There’s also
a beach and garden party, debates, catwalk shows and performances
from
La Voix
and the
London Gay Big Band!
Travel exhibitors
include,
Austrian Airlines, Visit Gibraltar, All Leisure
Holidays, Sun Resorts,
amongst others. Plus Andrew Hayden-
Smith who is starring in new Channel 4 series Cucumber, will also
be attending.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A brand new LGBT+ theatre group, the
Arcola Queer
Collective
interpretation of Shakespeare’s ‘A
Midsummer Night’s
Dream’.
Featuring some well-known queer performers from
around London, like
Pretty Miss Cairo, Rubyyy Jones
and
Rudi Douglas,
plus fresh, new faces on the stage and new, queer
scenes. See our arts page on page 30 this week for more details.
The Arcola Queer Collective’s First Production
The Arcola Theatre, 24 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
Tuesday 20th – Saturday 24th January, 8pm. £9 (£7 concs).
Saturday matinee: 3.30pm.
Gala Performance: Friday 23rd January, £30. Ticket includes
admission, drinks, canapés, post-show discussion and music.
www.arcolatheatre.com / Box Office: 020 7503 1646
La Voi x
Rehearsal pics by Rubyyy Jones
NW London Gay Social Grop
Heaven, under the Arches, Villiers Street,
Charing Cross, WC2N 6NG
Saturday 17th January, 1pm-7pm. Free
(booking required).
www.gaystarnews.com
Does exactly what it says on the tin – a gay social group for friendship,
fun and support in the North of London near Wembley, every Monday
evening.
Friendship, fun and support
The Windermere, Windermere Avenue, Wembley, HA9 8HG
Every Monday, 8.30pm.
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