Arts & Entertainment Exclusive: Heklina Talks About Mother, The New Incarnation Of Trannyshack At The Oasis Earlier in the year, local drag star Heklina announced that she would be retiring the name "Trannyshack" after careful consideration, and after getting significant flack from a younger generation of fans. As she
Arts & Entertainment SF Moves Closer To Getting A Permanent Trannyshack Though Trannyshack won't be called Trannyshack as of 2015, that doesn't mean the iconic drag event is just going to curl up and die. In fact, proposed changes to San Francisco's zoning laws
Arts & Entertainment RuPaul, Justin Vivian Bond, And Lady Bunny React To Trannygate Last week's revelation that SF drag queen Heklina was changing the name of her famous Trannyshack party has set off a second whirlwind of infighting in the LGBT community second only after the
Arts & Entertainment Exclusive: SFist Talks With Heklina About The Rebranding Of Trannyshack This week, the S.F. nightlife community was rocked by the news that legendary nightclub Trannyshack was going to rebrand itself, in the interest of not offending the trans community. Yesterday I spoke
Arts & Entertainment SF Institution Trannyshack Changing Name Amid PC Pressure It's the end of an era, and a triumph for trans activists, as SF-based drag queen Heklina (a.k.a. Stefan Grygelko) announced this week that she'll be taking the "tranny" out of
Arts & Entertainment Your Friday: Trannyshack's Depeche Mode v. Siouxsie Sioux That's right, we're keeping it in SoMa again. You can go to Hi Tops on Saturday. Way back before Bjork b-sides and Detroit trance disco acid tribal house whatever, the odiferous altera queers
Arts & Entertainment Drag Queens To Perform Radiohead's 'OK Computer' In Its Entirety Next month, Peaches Christ Productions brings the second installment of the San Francisco Album Project to The Chapel on Valencia Street: a gender-bending theatrical production of Radiohead's landmark 1997 album OK Computer lip-synched
Arts & Entertainment Video: Trannyshack Star Search Champ Rides Ejaculating Donkey Speaking of drag competitions, Sue Casa won last week's Trannyshack Star Search competition. Her performance boasts, among other things, riding a large ejaculating donkey. Also of note: flag twirling! [via Marke B. at
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: 'Sex And The City' Live! (And In Drag) After a successful run of live Roseanne episodes and Golden Girls Christmas Specials, the folks from Trannyshack return with their latest take on another classic (or classically trashy) piece of television: HBO's seminal
Arts & Entertainment Jackie Beat, She of the Corn Syrup Spoofs, Comes to SF You may recall L.A.-based drag queen Jackie Beat's corn syrup ad parodies which we aired here on SFist a few months back. Well, the LA-based Ms. Beat is coming to town
Arts & Entertainment Get Your Tickets for SS Trannyshack 2009 Tranny legend (and star!) Heklina is going balls out for this year's Folsom Street Fair festivities. The day before residents don their finest Kenneth Cole belts and Salvatore Ferragamo shoes in honor of
misc Happy Birthday to Trannyshack Impresario Heklina Today it's the birthday of Trannyshack founder and SF drag queen bee, Heklina. In her honor, here's a sweet video of a vintage T-shack duet she did with Kermit the Frog on "Rainbow
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Trannyshack's Kiss-Off Party, the Finale On Saturday night, Trannyshack -- San Francisco's longest-running, high-art concept drag revue -- bid us bye-bye. For now, anyway. And what a night, huh? For those of you who eschewed the shoegazing/indie/
Arts & Entertainment Trannyshack's Final Bump? Update: We just asked Heklina if it's true. "Yes, honey!" she replied. "Sometime in spring or early summer [of '08]." So...there you have it. Similar to the club night in question here,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Trannyshack's Siouxsie and the Banshees Night: Trannyshack icon and Scissor Sisters [NSFW] star Ana Matronic returns home to help Heklina host tonight's Siouxsie tribute. Also, we heard a rumor that Ana likes
