We have a pair of tickets to the New York Trannyshack show next Thursday. The show features Heklina, Ana Matronic of the Scissor Sisters, and Sherry Vine and you and a guest could be on the guest list if you're the first person to send Bradford the correct answer to the following question:

Members of the Scissor Sisters have collaborated/performed with many 1980s electro-pop icons. Which of the following have they not been associated with?

A. Pete Burns/Dead or Alive
B. New Order
C. Andy Bell/Erasure
D. Depeche Mode

First person to email bradford@queerty.com wins.

heckles

Trannyshack, the legendary drag party from San Francisco, is coming to New York City for one night only on Thursday June 8th. A screening of the film Filthy Gorgeous: The Trannyshack Story will be followed by a NYC Trannyshack show featuring the talents of Scissor Sister Ana Matronic, Juanita More!, Sherry Vine, and of course Trannyshack’s founder Heklina. Heckles recently caught up with our Editor-At-Large Bradford Shellhammer to discuss the New York show, the film, and who she dreams of rimming.

What do you have in store for us New Yorkers at your upcoming show?
Well, it'll be an assortment of Trannyshack alumni past and present, focusing more of course on ex-Trannyshackers who've moved to NYC and also some NYC names who played at the club.

Who'll be performing with you?
Darcy Drollinger is helping me to promote and host the show, Sherry Vine will be appearing, Ana Matronic (doing a possible duet with Jake Shears), Juanita More!, Renttecca, Electro the Pop and Lock King, Vinsantos, Faux Pas, Tai Chi, Christy Love, Miss Trannyshack 2005 Coco Canal, and more…..

Tell me about the movie. How did it come about? What can we expect?
Over the course of the past ten years that Trannyshack has been going on for, umpteen hundred people have attempted to do films on the club, but no one has stuck it out and actually finished one until now! Sean Mullins and Deena Davenport spent an exhausting year (2002) documenting every show and interviewing almost everyone associated with Trannyshack, and I have to say it's pretty comprehensive-they've done an amazing job.

You're legendary in San Francisco for rimming audience members onstage. Who in the world do you most want to rim?
Oh God, where to begin? I would love to rim Clive Owens, Paul Walker, Hugh Jackman, Brad Pitt, that guy who starred in the remake of the Amityville Horror, Chris Meloni, Ryan Gossling, almost every Jewish and Italian guy in NYC, any member of any NFL team, any man in a sailor suit, um…..OK, I'll stop now.

After the jump Heklina tells us if she is flithier than Lady Bunny.

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trannyshack calendar

The coming of the New Year means many things: new resolutions, New Year’s Eve parties, and new calendars. We are calendar junkies around here and are very well aware that every celebrity, every artist, and every shop has a calendar to peddle these days. We’ve found the best, though.

Trannyshack is San Francisco’s legendary drag show. If you’ve never been, we’re sorry. It makes drag pageants and shows in other cities look G-rated. The Trannyshack girls are nasty. It’s the club that launched the Scissor Sisters and its stage has been home to every drag queen you can think of and all the ones too bad to remember.

Heklina is a Queerty friend and the creator of Trannyshack. And now that the Trannyshack 2006 calendar has been released we’re thrilled to be able to reminisce each day we look up at these beautiful girls.

Trannyshack Calendar [Jimmy Loveless]
Trannyshack [Heklina]

Miss Trannyshack

Mercury Prize winner Antony has teamed up with his musical sister, the incomparable Boy George to cover John Lennon's "Happy Christmas, War Is Over" for charity.

The Gotham Knights will be raising funds for victims of Hurricane Katrina tonight at GYM Sports Bar in Manhattan from 9-11. Gay rugby players are hot. Even if missing some teeth.

•Tickets are already on sale for Queerty friend Heklina's Miss Trannyshack Pageant. Held on Saturday, November 19th, the event is a San Francisco legend. This year's celebrity judges include Chi Chi LaRue and Jane Wiedlin.

Boycott Red Bull? That is like asking Pete Doherty to boycott heroin. Not happening!

•Michael Magidson and Jose Merel were found guilty of second-degree murder in the brutal slaying of transgender teenager Gwen Araujo. The men killed Araujo at a party two years ago in Northern California.



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