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Title: Lance Bass Uses Transgender Slur on Air
Post by: Shana A on December 23, 2011, 10:09:32 AM
Posted on Advocate.com December 22, 2011 04:10:29 PM ET
Lance Bass Uses Transgender Slur on Air
By Jeremy Kinser

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Out entertainer Lance Bass suggests that comic Billy Eichner interview "->-bleeped-<-s" for his new man-on-the-street program before Eichner corrects him, during an appearance on Access Hollywood this morning.

Bass was the guest cohost of the entertainment news program and interviewed Eichner, star of the new Fuse series Billy on the Street, in which he offers money to New York's pedestrians to answer silly questions.

"So you need to go to Christopher and Hudson and get those ->-bleeped-<-s on the corner there — that would be perfect," Bass suggests to Eichner. Eichner agrees, saying "I love a ->-bleeped-<-" before realizing his error and correcting himself.

"We're not supposed to call them ->-bleeped-<-s anymore," Eichner says. "Did you see that Neil Patrick Harris called them a ->-bleeped-<- [sic] on Twitter?" Bass replies, "Oh, no? Great, now I'm going to get in trouble