Email Author Michael Musto
Awards
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2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards
"Why I Hate Being Gay! 62 Reasons!"
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2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards
"Help! Blandness Has Taken Over Our Culture!"
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2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 31, 2011
"Fame Is Better Than Drugs And I Want To Mainline That Shit"
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2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 22, 2010
"Kicked in the Groin at Every Glittery Turn"
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2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 18, 2010
"Where's My Book?"
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2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 29, 2010
"Year in Review"
2013 Stories by Michael Musto
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Lady Rizo and Bridget Everett Show us How Stars Get Made
published May 22, 2013
"I'm fameish," slapstick chanteuse Lady Rizo deadpanned to me, understandably sounding a tiny bit bitter. Funny, Rizo doesn't... More >>
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Remembering The Early Days of The Michael Alig Crime Coverage
published May 17, 2013
I'm no Woodward or Bernstein, but I was at the forefront of getting out the buzz on the famed club kid slaying when word started percolating in 1996. I had chronicled Michael Alig's rise and fall fro... More >>
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Gay Nightlife Wars Heat Up
published May 17, 2013
XL--the gay dance club that's attached to the Out NYC hotel--has gone through some changes this year, including the letting go of co-owners John Blair and Beto Sutter, who resurfaced with a hit party ... More >>
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Jane Lynch Loves Playing Ruthless Characters
published May 17, 2013
And that's good because she gets to play them a lot. She's brill as the rotten cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester on Glee. And in Broadway's Annie revival, she's just stepped into the part of the sour o... More >>
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When Your Ex Suddenly Messages You On Facebook...
published May 17, 2013
It happened to me twice in the last couple of years. Two people I bitterly broke up with reached out on Facebook, filling me with a large mixed salad of weird feelings. My immediate response was bei... More >>
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FEATURED STORY
Hermione Gingold As Evita????
published May 17, 2013
The role of Evita Peron has appealed through the years to grand divas like Patti LuPone, Faye Dunaway, Madonna, and that Argentinian woman from last year. But did you know that froggy-voiced, bulging... More >>
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When A Marriage Breaks Up, What Happens To The Wedding Gifts?
published May 16, 2013
Last night at an Out Professionals event at the LGBT Center, I was on a panel of experts being tossed etiquette questions by Philip Galanes, who's the Times' answer to Dear Abby and who has a book out... More >>
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Star Trek's Zach Quinto On Why He Came Out And How It Affected His Career
published May 16, 2013
The guy behind the Vulcan ears has a whole other mission and it's to save lives in reality, right here on earth. Star Trek Into Darkness's Zachary Quinto says he came out in 2011 in response to a ras... More >>
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Big Question Looming As To Iron Man's Future
published May 16, 2013
The problem with success is in trying to keep it, especially when your pricetag is so high and the sands of time are slipping through the hourglass. Robert Downey Jr. has had a triumph in the Iron Ma... More >>
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James Franco Used To Get Mad At Girls For Getting Fingered By Other Boys
published May 16, 2013
James Franco the film star also turns out to be a pretty good film critic, suggesting that the old adage should be amended to "Those who can, teach." For Vice, Franco took a look at The Great Gatsby ... More >>
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Elaine Stritch Sings "All That Jazz" An Octave Lower
published May 16, 2013
Lower than her variety show costar Lena Zavaroni. Lower than the band. Lower than a frog. And it's kind of powerful, and all that jazz.Thanks to Pieces bar's drag purveyor of Broadway magic Vodka Sti... More >>
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The TV Moment That Made Me Gay
published May 16, 2013
In the 1960s, I was addicted to watching tall, lithe Ron Ely as Tarzan, wearing a pulse-quickening loincloith as he swung around the place on various vines. The line of hair under Ron's navel was pos... More >>
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Don't Rejoice Over Tyler Perry's Flop Movie
published May 15, 2013
Tyler Perry Presents Peeples hasn't been bringing in the peeples to buy tickets, but let's not celebrate about that. The fact is, it's actually a challenging work that breaks new ground for Perry in t... More >>
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RIP Kenneth Battelle! His Hairdressing Legacy Lives On
published May 15, 2013
Kenneth Battelle--a/k/a just plain Kenneth (or "Mr. Kenneth")--was so famous and coveted as a hair stylist that he did both Jackie Kennedy and the woman who was sleeping with her husband, Marilyn Monr... More >>
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Autograph Show Legends Captured By Angelo Pitillo
published May 15, 2013
This week's column is an explosive jaunt to a New Jersey autograph show (Kevin Clement's Chiller Theatre), where you could buy signed photos of your favorite cult stars or simply ogle them from a safe... More >>
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The Sickest Remarks Being Made About Angelina's Double Mastectomy
published May 15, 2013
Yesterday, Angelina Jolie revealed that she'd had a double mastectomy as a preventive measure against a family history of breast cancer, amidst worldwide kudos and admiration. But on Facebook and oth... More >>
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Oscar winners! Rock Legends! Michael Jackson's Sperm Donor! All In One Room!
published May 15, 2013
Well, one Oscar winner (Patty Duke) plus plenty of offbeat, appreciated stars of every medium there is, all converging at the Chiller Theatre autograph show out in Parsippany. It happened, and I was ... More >>
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Move Over, Ryan Lochte! The Hottest Looking Swimmer Is...
published May 15, 2013
Nathan Adrian. Tall, 25, a three-time Olympic gold medalist. No, I'd never heard of him until the kids at datalounge.com started fawning over him (the sports arena is not exactly my forte), but I d... More >>
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Oscar winners! Rock legends! Sperm donors! All in one room!
published May 15, 2013
Twice a year, the Parsippany Sheraton overflows with ex-sitcom stars, cult movie sidekicks, aging action heroes, and their rabid fans for the... More >>
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Sarah Dash From Labelle Turned It Out The Other Night!
published May 14, 2013
How refreshing to find a vocal artist starting a cabaret show with a different "I'm Still Here" song. The one Sarah Dash did at 54 Below the other night was fiery and proud and alive--and not the sam... More >>
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Weird Glitch on Moviefone
published May 14, 2013
A friend and I wanted to catch up with 42, the well received Jackie Robinson movie I'd missed the screening of. I called Moviefone and entered the first three letters of the movie title: F-O-R. But ... More >>
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Bret Easton Ellis Fights Back Against GLAAD's Love Of "The Gay Man As Magical Elf"
published May 14, 2013
The American Psycho author was wrist slapped by GLAAD for some of his tweets involving things like making an HIV joke and also saying Matt Bomer would be weird casting for the uber-straight role in th... More >>
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Star Trek's Chris Pine On Why He Works Out
published May 14, 2013
Let's get all Tiger Beat-ish and dive inside the mind of Chris Pine, the costar of Star Trek Into Darkness, with the help of his sound bites from the June issue of Men's Health. God, I could just gra... More >>
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Angelina Jolie Had Preventive Double Mastectomy
published May 14, 2013
She writes about it in this extraordinary essay about her mother's death, her own "faulty gene," and her preemptive strike against disease.No sassy comments or blithe observations here. I'm completely... More >>
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Tony Nominee For Chaplin Tells Me Why The Comic Was Genius
published May 14, 2013
Rob McClure was nominated for a Tony for the closed but apparently not forgotten musical Chaplin, in which he played the little tramp from his early days to his banishment to his bittersweet return an... More >>
