#qx magazine

[kruemel8]

Omar and Edvin interview with QX magazine :)

https://www.qx.se/noje/261298/omar-och-edvin-karleken-fran-regnbagsfansen-ar-som-en-kackerlacka-den-dor-aldrig/

I just saw 👀.

“I’ve never been as sure of myself as I am today and my life is so damn good.” 🥺🥰

[computermagazines]

Ad for the Epson QX-10 computer - Byte Magazine, Febuary 1984

[omarera]

The most internationally sold QX magazines. Four of top six covers Omar Rudberg. And all top three 🔥

“…nothing beats the orders of recent years - and they are spelled Young Royals. And above all Omar Rudberg.”

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[anonfromtheflight]

Thank you @sillylittleflower for the tag 💜

Tagging without pressure; @darktwistedgenderplural @andthatisnotfake @nerdyfangirl76 @belly-aches 💜💜💜💜

[coffeeandstrawberries]

Since the original post with all editions is getting way too long to reblog, I am making a new one. I would like to address a couple of things brought up by @eypril-eypril:

just because some institutions can be reformed in a positive and meaningful way doesn't mean all institutions can be reformed. institutions are not homogenous. we can have different opinions on this but i don't believe the monarchy is an institution that can be reformed because its too problematic at its core. personally i don't think it's fair to compare the parliament to the monarchy, the parliament is after all the monarchy's successor.

1. "Monarchy can't be reformed because it's too problematic at its core"

It is a very general statement so let's narrow it down to the Swedish monarchy since it makes the most sense in the context of Young Royals.

In 1980 Riksdag adopted changes to Act of Succession of 1810, which established absolute primogeniture, guaranteeing the right of an eldest child to inherite the throne regardless of sex. Thanks to that, one day Crown Princess Victoria will become the first female Swedish monarch in the modern age.

On LGBTQ+ issues the Swedish monarchy came a long way from King Gustav V being blackmailed over his affair with a man in 1950s to King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia having a lunch under rainbow flags in a gay-owned restaurant in 2000 to Crown Princess Victoria making speeches at prides and being voted as Straight Person of the Year by the readership of QX magazine.

Those are two examples of changes brought from outside and from within the monarchy. They are might be not fast enough or not radical enough for some people but those are changes nevertheless. Opinions about the impossibility for the monarchy to be reformed are simply not supported by facts.

2. "Not all institutions can be reformed"

All institutions can be reformed. Absolutely each and every institution can be reformed. What was created by humans can be improved by other humans. All you need is consensus within society on what kind of changes should be brought to a dysfunction institution, political will to implement them, time and resources.

The most needed changes are rarely if ever come from an institution itself. A good example would be the problem of sexual abuse in US military. It was reported to the command for years with no success. It took the media coverage, involvement of Congress, Department of Justice and many other organizations to achieve something.

I appreciate whenever people are trying to make arguments instead of yelling — a rare thing in the fandom. If we could talk more about facts instead of personal beliefs, that would be awesome.

[cabeswatersedge]

So what if by the time Simon goes to university all the hubbub around Wille’s public declaration of their relationship has mostly died down. Like maybe during their high school years they were able to stay out of the tabloids, only hanging out at school or in Simon’s home instead of in public, and Wille doesn’t bring it up officially again. So the general public more or less move on from the prince’s high school boyfriend, maybe assuming the relationship ended, as high school romances often do.

And so Simon goes to university, and he grows out his hair, and he starts wearing glasses so he can see the board in the large university lecture halls, and he registers for classes using his mother’s maiden name (because a quick google search of Simon Eriksson turns up information that he’d rather not reveal to potential new friends or future employers). And so you wouldn’t necessarily recognize him as the same 16-year old kid that dated the Crown Prince all those years ago. To his new classmates he was no one special.

Except that maybe his school friends start to notice that he’s always keeping up with news of the royal family. That when the queen makes a speech, he’s watching it on his phone. That at his apartment he has the issue of QX magazine with Crown Prince Wilhelm on the cover. And maybe one day, while they’re taking a break during a study session, one of Simon’s friends has to ask about it. “I just wouldn’t have taken you for a royalist.”

“I’m not! It’s an outdated institution.”

“Then what’s with —” and Simon’s friend gestures at the tiny prince on Simon’s laptop screen, currently making a speech at a youth mental health charity event.

“I just think the work he’s doing is admirable,” then Simon shrugs, “ and... he’s kinda cute.”

So his friends laugh about it and accuse him of having a crush and Simon laughs along with them and doesn’t deny it. And it becomes a running joke in their group chat: “Saw Simon’s boyfriend is doing another speech.” “Did you read the new interview with Simon’s boyfriend?”

And when the day comes that Simon invites them over to his apartment to meet his actual long-distance boyfriend, they tease him about it. “Can’t wait to finally meet the prince!”

So cue their shock (and Simon’s amusement) when he opens the front door and the actual Crown Prince of Sweden walks in.

[catherinetheprincessofwales]

Reality vs Fiction: Swedish and British Royals LGBT+ views. Young Royals x Red, White and Royal Blue. Victoria, The Crown Princess of Sweden receives a 2021 QX magazine award for support of LGBT+ Community. William, The Prince of Wales, in 2016 became the first member of a royal family to appear on the cover of a gay magazine.

[levok]

Nominate Omar in LGBTQ+ person category for GX Gaygala also, he literally came out in their magazine in 2019

This... GIVE THIS BOY ALL THE NOMINATIONS!!!

Also, give Lisa a shoutout with Årets hetero

[spacesapphist]

I’m trying to have compassion for the Terfs and Tories, but also I’m trying to exist safely. Art is prayer. Queer stories are oxygen. I really need that nourishment right now, and I know I’m not alone in that. We need to see nuanced, beautiful, messy humans that we relate to. We need stories that inspire us and uplift us and give us fuel. And because culture changes culture, perhaps some audience members will leave the theatre after watching this play feeling slightly kinder than before. So yeah, I feel really grateful for this job, for the opportunity to make the art I need to see, and also, I feel a great responsibility to get it right. Whatever ‘right’ means.  

Charlie Josephine, May 2 2023 interview for QX Magazine

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[alexbkrieger13]

Is there a download like for the magazine

[johnrgordon]

JOHN R GORDON'S groundbreaking novel, Faggamuffin, explores what it means to be a gay Jamaican immigrant in the UK. It is a novel that functions as a propulsive thriller and a prescient indictment of the UK's racist and homophobic immigration policies, which was published nearly a decade before the Windrush Scandal.

'An engaging and enjoyable read.'

- QX Magazine

'A master novelist.'

- The Huffington Post

You can order this gripping book via the following links:

UK: Waterstones / Amazon

US: Barnes & Noble / Amazon

[aqurette]

I’m Being Interviewed

An interview with me has been published in Swedish gay magazine QX. Read it here. http://aqurette.blog/T6T9xc

[man-reading]

Five gay books every gay man should read

Books, books, books. Us queers love them. It’s strange how we’ve come into our own just as the book has fallen out of favour. In our humble opinion there are few pleasures as enjoyable as holding a hefty hardback, cracking it open, and embarking on a literary journey. Queer writings have been around since the world became literate, yet censorship meant the queer book couldn’t quite come into its own until the later half of the 20th century. Despite this, a few gems made their way to be published and are to this day favourites of the gay literary canon. Here are five classic books that you have to get your hands on to become a bona fide intellectual gay:

Giovanni’s Room

This tender novel of love and loss sparked a very public debate surrounding homosexuality and bisexuality in the public sphere. Queer black author James Baldwin put his career on the line to get this particular work out there since his publisher feared that he would run the risk of alienating his African American audience. It follows David, an American living in Paris, who makes the mistake of falling in love with a bartender named Giovanni. We meet David during the worst night of his life as he is kept awake reminiscing his past relationships with men as he awaits the dreaded morning when Giovanni is to be executed. Both life-firming and tragic, Baldwin is skillful in concisely expressing that familiar feeling of societal alienation and grappling with issues of identity.

De Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Goal 

It’s easy to forget that not too long ago we were outlaws, committing acts of criminal love. There is no piece that captures this experience so agonizingly than De Profundis, where the misery of being a social pariah meets the wrath of a scorned lover. Written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment at Reading Gaol, it is addressed to Lord Alfred ‘Bosie’ Douglas after their long relationship has come crashing down. It is also the most clarion notation of Wilde’s beliefs on romanticism, the individual and art. The Ballad of Reading Goal is also a meditation of his time under lock and key, yet with added reflection as it was written some year later whilst in exile in Bernival-le-Grand. The poem narrates the hanging of trooper Charles Wooldridge, convicted of slitting his wife’s throat, before becoming a symbolist exploration of the brutalisation of convicted criminals. Both pieces are stark reminders of the brutality which gay men have faced in past years, and gesture to its long lasting consequences.

Maurice

It’s quite the topical novel at the moment with the remastered version putting the film version back on cinema screens, and a theatrical interpretation making it’s way to Above the Stag down in Vauxhall. E M Foster is arguably one of the greatest literary figures of the early 20th century, yet this particular masterpiece didn’t make its way to publication until the early 70’s. That in itself makes this novel one of queer-historical significance. This bildungsroman follows Maurice Hall form his earliest notions of sex by way of an awkward sex education talk aged fourteen, to his days as a stockbroker. He becomes infatuated with Clive Durham during his days of studying at Cambridge. They engage in a passionate love affair in the face of the societal pressures which mount up against them. The novels happy ending is a big middle finger to the tragic queer narrative that is still so prevalent in depictions of gay love.

The Line of Beauty

Following in E M Foster’s cautious footsteps, Alan Hollinghurst thrust the gay novel from being the cheap form it became in the nineties and early naughties, elevating it to a thing of dignity and complexity. Protagonist Nick Guest stands on one of life’s many precipices, having finished his studies at Oxford he’s about to embark on city life in London. As London dwellers, many of us know that feeling of not quite knowing what’s next. Embarking on the unknown. Spanning most of the 80’s it chronicles an individual’s experience of coming in contact with the gay scene, and provides a very relatable perspective of the HIV/AIDS crisis. A coked up slow dance with Margret Thatcher whilst indulging in the pleasure the gay scene had to offer perfectly gestures to the central contradiction of city life.

The City and the Pillar

Being known internationally as a public intellectual is quite the stamp of approval, yet Gore Vidal’s aristocratic demeanour and pragmatic wit meant he became a queer icon that garnered approval from the general population. Believing that humanity as a whole was bisexual, his view on resisting constrictive labels paved the way for queer thinking for generations to come. In The City and the Pillar we have Jim Willard, a young man who, after being intimate with his friend Bob on a camping trip as teenagers, believes that Bob is his predetermined destiny. What this novel does particularly well is chime into the grandiose expectations and melodramatic predictions that plague the queer mind. It also integrates the gay narrative into one that was experienced universally, the second world war. Glittered with Vidal’s razor sharp wit and his idiosyncratic take on the world.

[anonfromtheflight]

Look at what arrived today! Thank you to Emma over Twitter who shared their left over QX magazines with Omar or Edvin on the cover (I obviously chose Omar 🤭) with fans all over the world and now this one it's here!!! In all its gorgeousness!!! 😍😍

[dreamings-free]

Our Fave Famous Twinks  qx magazine  04.05.16

[olispleen]

An interview about my latest album “Night Sweats & Fever Dreams” thanks to QX Magazine.