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MEET THE PANELISTS (below)
So what the hell is “gay culture” nowadays?
Kai Wright: It’s anything, I guess.
Douglas Carter Beane: It’s remarkable how incredibly assimilated it is. When I see Pixar cartoons, I know there’s a gay sensibility involved.
Glenn Marla: I heard someone use the word gaystream, and that sounded so ugly to me. Because it’s a world that’s not much more friendly than the heterosexual mainstream. There’s no chance I can pass there.
Staceyann Chin: There is no such thing as gay culture anymore. The community is so large and the people who qualify as gay are portrayed as more diverse in the media. But people pretty much still expect me to show up in a flannel shirt and not shave my underarms. I wear cotton shirts; they just have checkered patterns.
Ariel Schrag: It’s all so vague and blah that it’s hard to even tell who is gay. Which is good in the inclusive sense, but it’s a little sad, too. It’s fun to be part of a subculture.
Christian Siriano: On the one hand, it’s the world I’m in—all fashion and style and design and stuff. And it’s a big world out there, with so many causes and benefits and charities. But that’s all totally over my head at this point in my life.
Glenn Maria: Sometimes I feel drenched in positivity, because I’m constantly inspired by New York. It’s like, “I live in New York City and I’m a performance artist, and I’m surrounded by all this gender-fucking and badass shit!” But then I can get bummed because Rapture, the place where I performed a lot, just closed. I get concerned about “the state of gay culture,” but I’m a big fucking homo whether I like it or not, so I continue to create it, as we all do.
Douglas Carter Beane, 48
Tony-nominated playwright (The Little Dog Laughed and Xanadu) and screenwriter (To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar)
Staceyann Chin, 35
Activist, poet, spoken-word performer and self-proclaimed “lesbian Jamaican immigrant”
Glenn Marla, 25
Outré plus-size trannie performer
Ariel Schrag, 28
Author of the autobiographical graphic novel Awkward, and former writer for The L Word
Christian Siriano, 21
Project Runway winner, hot trannie mess popularizer
Kai Wright, 34
Author, Drifting Toward Love: Black, Brown, Gay,and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York
Josh Stevenson
Wed, May 28, at 11:27pm
There is SO much wrong with the last comment made by Christian Siriano. He's being racist, classist, and transphobic. First, he's implying that all heterosexuals are white. Then he equates gender variant people with the class-biased stereotype of "white trash".
Josh Stevenson
Wed, May 28, at 09:10pm
There is SO much wrong with the last comment made by Christian Siriano:
