“It is 3am in the Combat Zone and the gay bars have closed, the fags, hookers, pimps and pushers roam the streets.” this is a quote taken from a 1973 Boston Globe article by Jeramiah Murphy.  What follows is a brief history of Boston’s most notorious neighborhood, the Combat Zone. The stories, statistics and people are real and true.  The Zone...

When I was 17 I got my first fake ID. My friend Harry found out about a shop in NY that would make you an ID for $20, this was before 911 so nobody really cared. We drove four hours into the city and pulled up to a little bodega with some Indian looking guys behind the counter and told them we wanted IDs. Twenty minutes later we walked out with ...