Let the gays begin

MEET THE PANELISTS (below)

Okay, what do you do for fun on a Saturday night? Is a trip to Splash in the cards?

Douglas Carter Beane: Not really; I’ve got to take my three-year-old son to Super Soccer Stars at 9am. Besides, I think that bars are a fading dinosaur. With Craigslist and Manhunt, the need for them is dwindling. When my plays are being done around the country, people are like, “We’d love to take you out for a night on the town, but the neighborhood’s been completely dismantled. Seattle doesn’t have a gay neighborhood anymore.”

Kai Wright: Splash is pretty much not in the cards. It’s hard to get me out of Brooklyn, to be honest. I do love the West Village, though. There are great piano bars. You get all the old Broadway queens who’ve just gotten off work—it’s good, unself-conscious, old-fashioned faggotry. Plus, I’m always looking for a good slutty party. They’re just a lot harder to find now.

Staceyann Chin: I haven’t seen any space that reflects the kind of dyke I am. So every Saturday night I go to Trader Joe’s, get some cheese, a couple of cases of wine and fill my own home with lots of women and an eclectic brew of music.

Ariel Schrag: I usually go to a house party in the Williamsburg-Bushwick area.

Glenn Maria: I usually go see, God forbid, a performance! People always complain about how much it costs to see a show, but they’ll go spend $80 to be in a bar for two hours. But there’s a lot of great entertainment in New York City for under $10. We can totally complain about the Box—the awful venue downtown—and how it costs, like, $80 dollars to get inside. But you can see the same performers at the Slipper Room for $5.

Christian Siriano: It’s hard for me to go out. People either want to ignore me or touch me and pick me up like a little pocket gay. But I’m more into trashy bars and gay house parties and little events.

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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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Comments

1. Posted by Josh Stevenson on Wed, May 28, 08, 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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2. Posted by Josh Stevenson on Wed, May 28, 08, at 9:10pm

   There is SO much wrong with the last comment made by Christian Siriano:

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