Felipe Buitrago

If you have a penchant for dressing up in bridal attire and going on bar crawls (whether as a participant or a spectator sport), check out the 15th annual Brides of March this Saturday, March 16. The premise is simple: grab a white wedding dress (it doesn't have to be yours) and drink and be merry in true San Francisco fashion.

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I first saw Trangela Lansbury as a gold-bearded Siren glittering across the stage at El Rio. Then there she was again at a California College of the Arts exhibit as a traditional Frida Kahlo, elegantly carrying her shining facial hair into flashing cameras while also showcasing her homoerotic drawings at the Batman on Robin show in the Mission.

Trangela, aka Diego Gomez, is a Bay Area native and as an artist he combines performance, illustration, design, painting, lingerie, and now theater -- he was cast for Tinsel Tarts in a Hot Coma, a Cockettes revival musical starting March 28 at the Hypnodrome. Heavily influenced by artists such as Jim Lee and Alphonse Mucha, he combines fantasy art, comics, and raw homoeroticism with a hint of trashy, genderbending imagery.

We spoke to Gomez about gaying up Batman, drag, and, as he notes on his Facebook page, the mad skills and verbosity that "could cut a bitch like a Lee Press-On Nail."

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Kent Taylor

Miranda, Charlotte, Carrie, and Samantha have never looked better in their Manolo Blahniks.

The drag queens of Trannyshack are peddlers of nostalgia -- not nostalgia for drag queens like Mom used to make, but for pop culture of yore. The company is on the cutting edge of turning the contemporary into camp. Want to know which new old thing will make us homesick for the past next? Look no further than the subjects of the company's shows.

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We like our gay bars like we like our women -- rough around the edges and with as little cover as possible. With its bordello-esque atmosphere and cheap drinks, it's no surprise that The Stud, one of the city's oldest gay bars, still reigns supreme.

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Kent Taylor

Sex and the City by the Bay

Still reeling from the stiletto-sized hole in your heart since The Golden Girls Christmas Episodes closed for the season? Us too. But you can wipe the glitter-encrusted tears from your eyes, because Trannyshack is back with drag renditions of the popular, cosmo- and shoe-obsessed HBO series Sex and the City. 

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Josue Rivera

When Dia Dear takes the stage, things are about to become brutally uncomfortable and strangely beautiful. Her shaved head is typically plastered in white makeup and perhaps some sparse lipstick or some dark rings penciled around her eyes. Although she's often found performing at drag shows, it would be a stretch to define her performances as traditional drag -- some elements of her work, such as her lip-synching and her occasional high-heel wearing, are similar, but beyond those characteristics, she assumes her own style. Instead of dancing along to a Mariah Carey tune, you're much more likely to see her enacting something quieter by Radiohead or Antony and the Johnsons. Don't expect her to bust out a cancan, either. Her movements are slow, with Kabuki-like precision.

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Joie de Vivre

Sheena Rose

In a city that prides itself (see what we did there?) on having one of the most prominent and active LGBT communities in the world, how do you determine the best place to see a drag show? By going to the place with the most glitter! Described by one Yelp reviewer as "a slightly skeezy gay bar from the mid-'70s, left untouched for 40 years, and revisited in 2012," what Aunt Charlie's Lounge lacks in size and location, it makes up for by hosting some of the best and intimate drag shows in S.F.

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Jose Guzman Colon

Trannyshack ensures you'll never be able to look at your favorite series the same way again.

In her pre-show speech for The Golden Girls: The Christmas Episodes, ensemble member Laurie Bushman must remind the audience to refrain from shouting out punch lines before the cast gets a chance to deliver them. If you know the jokes, great, she said to Friday night's crowd, but try to enjoy your knowledge "privately."

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Pollo Del Mar (Rose), Matthew Martin (Blanche), Cookie Dough (Sophia) and Heklina (Dorothy) both seated in The Golden Girls: The Christmas Episodes

Jose Guzman Colon

There are few things that can console us during the cold, dark malaise known as winter. We often resort to hunkering down in bed, drinking whiskey out of a measuring cup, and reading depressing Russian novels. This year, however, Santa has come early, and his name is not Jack Daniels.

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Because San Francisco has such a vibrant rich history of drag culture, many of us have been pondering the impossible question: Why the hell hasn't an S.F. queen appeared on any of the four seasons of RuPaul's Drag Race?

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