The "unabashedly queer" bar hosts regular parties such as Casual Fridays and Fuzz, as well as disc jockeys playing music ranging from Top 40 to "artsy" indie pop.

Boston magazine says, "You won't find interloping bachelorette parties at this veteran watering hole, secreted away downtown.

What you will find are refreshing vestiges of a time before gay bars got gentrified: cheap drinks, little pretense, and dancing throngs—not to mention an abundance of pheromones".

[1] In 2018, Dana Hatic of Eater Boston said the Alley "is known as a flannel-filled 'den of Boston bears'" and said Fuzz has DJ Brent Covington and DJ Taffy playing "a mix of pop, rock, and dance music of all eras, plus some British pop and punk".

The bi-level space is constantly a buzz, packing in the crowds that always accumulate on weekends (and, when in season, the weekly communal RuPaul’s Drag Race viewing parties).