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Lil Miss Hot Mess is the stage name of Harris Kornstein, an American author, drag queen, and academic. Grygelko's mother is Icelandic, and having been born in the U.S., he lived in Iceland in the 1980s; he named his drag character after the Icelandic volcano Hekla. Heklina founded the drag club Mother (formerly Trannyshack) in 1996.

"I think that drag queens are still the eunuch clown that's safe to laugh at. It's definitively not shocking anymore. So I don't know if America's really embraced it. The early 90s was when RuPaul [was becoming famous] and it was the first time any drag queen had mainstream exposure. I don't really see a drag queen breaking out like that [again]."

Mother (formerly Trannyshack)
"It has several meanings; the new 'Mothership' of drag in SF, something warm and comforting, nurturing even. And it also ties into the 'drag mother' thing. This will be a place for all drag mothers to bring their children, to hone their craft."

Heklina co-founded Trannyshack, and has hosted the show from its inception in 1996 at the Stud bar and continues to host the special events throughout San Francisco and in other – mainly California – cities. Trannyshack is the longest running drag event series in San Francisco. On January 17, 2015 at The Oasis, Trannyshack was rebranded as Mother, evolving from a monthly to a weekly event series.

She also co-produces and co-hosts the Miss Trannyshack Pageant widely considered the premiere annual drag event in San Francisco that has sold out every year since inception.

Theater and community actitivites
Heklina also acts in local theater productions, most notably the S.F. Golden Girls productions (as Dorothy Zbornak) and emcees a variety of community and charitable events including the Folsom Street Fair (along with Sister Roma) and San Francisco Pride. She was voted Community Grand Marshal of the 2004 San Francisco GLBTQ Pride Parade, and won the 2009 Pride Creativity Award for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to the LGBT Community. She was sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Heklina co-stars in a series of short films, the "Tran-ilogy of Terror", drag queen horror spoofs written and directed by long-time collaborator Peaches Christ., and also starred in the film "Baby Jane?".

The Oasis
The Oasis, a theater and cabaret nightclub located in San Francisco's SOMA district, hosted a grand opening event on New Year's Eve day 2014. Heklina and three business partners, D'Arcy Drollinger, Geoff Benjamin, and Jason Beebout, signed a deal to purchase the former Oasis nightclub in October 2014. The nightclub's diverse programming features drag stars, cabaret and performing artists, live musical acts, and DJs.

Books

 * Filthy Gorgeous: The Trannyshack Story (2005) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468563/
 * ''The House of Venus Show" (2006)
 * Spin the Bottle (2005)
 * Season of the Troll (2001)
 * A Nightmare on Castro Street (2002) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418957/
 * Whatever Happened to Peaches Christ? (2004)
 * "Baby Jane?"

Television

 * "The Cho Show" with Margaret Cho http://www.logotv.com/video/episode-7-cho-place-like-home/1651948/playlist.jhtml
 * "Trauma" (2009) https://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi935265561/
 * "The Daily Show"
 * Playing It Straight (2004)
 * The Ricki Lake Show
 * Jerry Springer