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A friend in need

For the last 15 years, Aliza Shapiro has been the heart and brains of Truth Serum Productions, the rabble-rousing outfit behind the irreverent TraniWreck cabaret.
Community comes together to support Aliza Shapiro
By THOMAS PAGE MCBEE  |  August 05, 2011
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Tribute: Friends remember Billy Ruane

Billy Ruane died on a Tuesday night.
The heart of Boston rock
By PHOENIX STAFF  |  November 12, 2010
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Photos: TraniWreck presents ''GOLD II'' at Club Oberon

TraniWreck's gender-bendy cabaret at Club Oberon on May 30, 2010.
 Traniwreck performs at Club Oberon on May 30, 2010
By DEREK KOUYOUMJIAN  |  June 04, 2010
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Where the girls are

While Boston does have a few conventional — some might say uninteresting — gay bars, it doesn’t have a designated hotspot for queer women.
Prime places to track down all the single ladies
By ASHLEY RIGAZIO  |  June 04, 2010
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Bike Porn cranks your gears in Cambridge

If you still want to view steamy cinema in a public setting, we have a festival for you
Blown tires?
By TOM MEEK  |  April 16, 2010
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Wild nights

I don't need to break this news to you returning LGTBTQ-folk, but for those of you just joining us in Boston, a bitter little amuse bouche to start off this otherwise super-tasty survey of our current gay-nightlife situation: our gay bars kind of suc
For better or worse, gay life is ditching the bars
By MICHAEL BRODEUR  |  September 04, 2009

Slideshow: Boston's drag kings


Drag kings are all over the place in Boston.
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  July 09, 2008
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Socks appeal

Rico swaggers down the aisle of the Art House Theatre in Provincetown, oozing confidence and brazenly flirting with the cheering women who’ve claimed every available seat for the sold-out show.
Drag kings flip the script on gender impersonation. We go undercover to get to the meat of the matter.
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  July 09, 2008
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Speaking freely

If the claustrophobic space and rigorous tour schedule was getting to anyone, you wouldn’t know it from their humor and high energy.
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By MEGAN BELL  |  November 06, 2007
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‘Bring us your worst . . . ’

Mike brought his creation to a climax with high-pitched keening — part orgasm, part death knell — before swooning onto the stage.
The ‘Anti-Slam’ poets wax erotic
By JACQUELINE HOUTON  |  August 22, 2007
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Portrait of the artist as a dirty man

“This is so fucking tame compared to what’s coming,” says My Life in Heavy Metal author Steve Almond after reading a bit from his R-rated short stories on the stage at Great Scott last Tuesday night.
Jimmy’s letters to Nora
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  November 20, 2006
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Forced exposure

Does Kate Moss really love Peaches more than she loves cocaine?
Peaches sounds off on sex, education, all-girl bands, and why the '80s were the gayest decade ever
By ALIZA SHAPIRO  |  July 20, 2006

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