MEET THE PANELISTS (below)

What about the stuff we see in movie theaters and on DVD? Why are there so many bad gay and lesbian films?

Staceyann Chin: There’s a lot of bad movies about straight people, too. Popular art isn’t good art.

Douglas Carter Beane: There was a time in the ’90s when I think we were so desperate to see ourselves reflected in any way that we would put up with atrocious movies to see two men holding hands and kiss.

Ariel Schrag: I went to the Mix festival once, and there was this movie that had all these kaleidoscopic images of genitals—and no sound! It was the most painful experience of my life. We were trying to imagine tumors and the Holocaust—anything to keep us from laughing out loud.

Glenn Maria: I don’t have Logo, but I once got a gift bag filled with movies from Here! TV. They were so bad! I thought the idea of putting us on TV was to see something you might relate to. But everyone passes, everyone’s skinny and white. That’s not the queer community I know.

Kai Wright: But there is a lot of fun stuff. Another Gay Movie, that gay take on American Pie? What’s not to like there? My friend just made a gay thriller, 2 Minutes Later. There’s a lot of good stuff out there. You just need to look for it.

Christian Siriano: I’m really bad about pop culture, even though I’m a part of it. Like, I love cheesy movies.

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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

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• 7174 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".

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• 7172 Josh Stevenson Wed, May 28, at 09:10pm
  There is SO much wrong with the last comment made by Christian Siriano:

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