'Runway's' Christian Siriano Apologizes To Transgendered & Drag Queen Communities

By Access HollywoodMay 30, 2008, 12:55 pm PDT

NEW YORK, NY -- "Project Runway" winner Christian Siriano has apologized to the transgendered and drag queen communities and has promised to attempt to eradicate "trannie" from his vocabulary.

The designer, known for his catch phrases including "that's fierce" and "hot trannie mess," as much as his winning fashion designs, recently compared drag queens and transexuals to white-trash in an article meant to celebrate Gay Pride 2008 in Time Out New York magazine.

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Siriano had been asked about the lasting appeal of drag queens when he responded with: "If you think of heterosexuals, they have white-trash women and trailer parks, and we have drag queens and trannies."

Now, Siriano has apologized for his comments, but claimed the answer printed in Time Out wasn't a full representation of what he meant.

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"I wish that my words were not taken in that way," Siriano told GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation). "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."

GLAAD claimed Siriano is working hard to stop using the term "trannie," which the organization claims is offensive.

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"I mean no disrespect to the transgender population and I never will," Siriano said. "Some of my close friends happen to be transgender and I think they are some of the most inspiring people in my life."

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  • YoMama
    Optiva, You need some psychotherapy, just to start. Were you abused as a child? Anger is all over.
    report abuseposted June 29, 2008, 8:32 am PDT
  • dejanae p
    optiva u've got sum issues
    report abuseposted June 5, 2008, 11:40 am PDT
  • MoxZ
    Optiva is indeed misguided, in a big, big way... Now back to our regularly scheduled program. If Christian isn't a hot trannie mess, I don't know what is? He's calling the pot and kettle black there don'tcha
    report abuseposted June 2, 2008, 8:46 am PDT
  • Abby T
    Optiva, your misguided
    report abuseposted June 2, 2008, 8:04 am PDT
  • Abby T
    Optiva, your misguided
    report abuseposted June 2, 2008, 8:04 am PDT
  • ChrisK
    Without men in the picture, no choas and %@!*#in, just getting the work done on the ranch. I am married with kids, straight, I just treat people like they treat me. Freaks are freaks, but gays are not freaks just because they are not what you want them to be. I don't have to be saved to see what is right and wrong. I was raised by parents that taught us not to judge others! Grow the
    report abuseposted June 2, 2008, 6:57 am PDT
  • ChrisK
    I have many lesbian friends that are wonderful people. Everyone has this misconception of their lifestyles. I lived with them at one time when I had no where else to go and they are teachers, police officers, managers, plant workers that live at a ranch where everyone works together in peace, there aren't orgies like people think. I never even seen them display public affection.
    report abuseposted June 2, 2008, 6:53 am PDT
  • ChrisK
    OK, here's the deal and MY opinion of all this. Gay people don't hurt people. They find love with the same sex and that makes them bad? What if YOUR child told you he/she was gay? Would you disown them and turn your back on them in your self righteous, contradicted faith in GOD? EVERYONE is God's children and you are NOT GOD so stop judging as if you were.
    report abuseposted June 2, 2008, 6:52 am PDT
  • optiva
    ALLY YOU JESUS FREAKS NEED TO GO PREACH SOMEPLACE ELES. NOT EVERYONE BELIEVES IN GOD OR JUSUS,AND YOU DON'T SEE US PREACHING OUR BELIEFS ON HERE. KEEP THAT %@!*# TO YOURSELVES OR YOUR CHURCH. JESUS MAY HAVE BEEN A REAL PERSON BUT HE WASN'T SOME GREAT MIRICAL WORKER OT THE SON OF SOME GOD IN THE SKY,HE WAS A HUMAN JUST LIKE THE REST OF HE JUST KNEW HOW TO MAKE THE WEAK MINDED SCARE
    report abuseposted June 2, 2008, 6:34 am PDT
  • optiva
    ALLY YOU JESUS FREAKS NEED TO GO PREACH SOMEPLACE ELES. NOT EVERYONE BELIEVES IN GOD OR JUSUS,AND YOU DON'T SEE US PREACHING OUR BELIEFS ON HERE. KEEP THAT %@!*# TO YOURSELVES OR YOUR CHURCH. JESUS MAY HAVE BEEN A REAL PERSON BUT HE WASN'T SOME GREAT MIRICAL WORKER OT THE SON OF SOME GOD IN THE SKY,HE WAS A HUMAN JUST LIKE THE REST OF HE JUST KNEW HOW TO MAKE THE WEAK MINDED SCARE
    report abuseposted June 2, 2008, 6:34 am PDT
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