MEET THE PANELISTS (below)

Have you seen Gypsy?

Ariel Schrag: What is Gypsy?

Staceyann Chin: I’ve never seen it.

Christian Siriano: I haven’t. Wait, I think I’ve seen the movie, but I can’t remember. What’s it about?

Ariel Schrag: Isn’t there a mother and a daughter in it? It’s kind of coming back to me.…

Christian Siriano: Sounds fabulous!

Douglas Carter Beane: I haven’t seen it for a while. I like to see it every 72 months—I love that overture. I even put a joke in Xanadu about Gypsy!

Kai Wright: I haven’t seen it, but for gay Broadway, give me Xanadu. That was fucking brilliant! I urge you to go.

Douglas Carter Beane: Working on Xanadu made it pretty clear that the word camp is still used to dismiss something. People are still saying the show is too gay, even though it appeals to a wide audience. They would never think of calling Fiddler on the Roof “too Jewish,” or The Wiz “too black” or Camelot “too long”—oh wait, they do say that.

Glenn Maria: I actually saw Gypsy. And I’m the weird, fat trannie—the one who’s supposed to be into weird and freaky shit. People always come up to me and talk about obscure avant-garde artists that I “should” know. But the reality is, I love Gypsy. When I perform, I jump out of spandex sacks and tap-dance to show tunes.

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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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