"I love To Wong Foo! It's so good, so fabulous.... If you think of heterosexuals, they have white-trash women and trailer parks, and we have drag queens and trannies. I don't know if I'm the one who can explain it. It's, like, drag queens are just there. These answers are hard!"

Designer Christian Siriano, the recent winner of Bravo Channel's TV show, "Project Runway," responding to a series of questions posed to several of NYC's queer "culture makers." The particular question was, "Drag has always been part of our experience and always will be. What is its everlasting appeal? Why won't it ever die?" (Time Out)

"I wish that my words were not taken in that way.... When I was speaking, some comments that I made were not used in the article. I completely support the fabulousness and amazing fashion inspiration that most transgender people provide."

Christian Siriano, in a communication with the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. The designer, a self-descirbed "flamboyant gay man" known for using phrases like "fierce!" and "hot tranny mess," was apologizing for the perceived insensitivity of his remarks to Time Out magazine. GLAAD says Siriano used derogatory slang and that "tranny" is an offensive slur. (GLAAD)

"I am dressing Whoopi Goldberg for the Tonys."

Siriano announcing that he will be designing an outfit for the host of the Broadway awards show. The next day he appeared on Whoopi Goldberg's daytime show, "The View," to show sketches of outfits. Siriano is a native of Maryland, attended the Baltimore School for the Arts, and is scheduled to host the Official Pride Men's Party at Town Danceboutique in DC on June 13, 2008. (E! Online) (Broadway World)