Email Author Michael Musto

Awards

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "Why I Hate Being Gay! 62 Reasons!"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "Help! Blandness Has Taken Over Our Culture!"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 31, 2011

  "Fame Is Better Than Drugs And I Want To Mainline That Shit"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 22, 2010

  "Kicked in the Groin at Every Glittery Turn"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 18, 2010

  "Where's My Book?"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 29, 2010

  "Year in Review"

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2008 Stories by Michael Musto

• People I Hate...

  published Feb 07, 2008

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• My Ssssmokin' Scrape With the Law!

  published Feb 07, 2008

  This man is a lawbreaker. It's taken me several days, but I can finally break down and admit it: I'm a lawbreaker! Right up there with Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, and Scott Peterson! No, I didn't ... More >>

• Another Treasure From the YouTube Vaults: "Miss Honey"!

  published Feb 06, 2008

  I almost plotzed at the Monday karaoke night over at Chi Chiz, the African American gay bar on Christopher Street, when a zany queen grabbed the mic to sing "Miss Honey" by late drag star Moi Renee ... More >>

• Dead Socialite Killed Again by TV Movier

  published Feb 06, 2008

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• Overheard Shit About Shit and Shit

  published Feb 05, 2008

  Ex West Coaster at Hiro Ballroom: "L.A. rips out your soul!" . . . Guy to friend at the Madison: "I'll poop on a drag queen if that'll make things more interesting for you." . . . Guy at Barracuda: ... More >>

• Fun Facts about Sam Lutfi

  published Feb 05, 2008

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• Claymates Bring Down Our National IQ

  published Feb 04, 2008

  Claymates are the slowest bunch of doody heads to grace this earth since their miscreant parents voted Bush into the White House. Shameless worshipers of singer Clay Aiken, they clog up the web writ... More >>

• Ledger Drug Tape in Bad Taste! Canceled Anyway!

  published Feb 04, 2008

  So a bunch of celebs came to dead Heath Ledger's rescue at the behest of a publicist and partly as a result of the pressure, ET dropped the video they had bought of the actor at an '06 drug party. A... More >>

• All Kneel for Gay Candidate Jim Neal

  published Feb 01, 2008

  In next week's column, I'll have a sitdown interview with Jim Neal, the openly gay Democrat running against incumbent Elizabeth Dole for Jesse Helms's old Senate seat in North Carolina. Neal wasn't ... More >>

• A Drag Movie About Streisand. Discuss!

  published Feb 01, 2008

  It's time to praise the past! I was famous then. In the '80s, I even costarred with Holly Woodlawn in a downtown camp version of The Sound of Music. (Well, "costarred" may be stretching it. Holly had ... More >>

• Director Takes a Bite Out of Mike Tyson

  published Jan 31, 2008

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• (Doris) Duking it out with Rush Limbaugh!

  published Jan 31, 2008

  If eccentric socialite Doris Duke had come back from the dead, she wouldn't have gotten a bigger reaction at the party for HBO's teleflick about her (Bernard and Doris), than another shocking guest ... More >>

• Hotshot Promoter Tries To Jazz Up the Nightlife

  published Jan 31, 2008

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• Clay's Aiken Breakin' Heart

  published Jan 30, 2008

  Clay Aiken raises his eyebrows in "an arch, queeny way." That's one of the things we learn in this week's enjoyable New York Magazine profile of the singer, along with the fact that he's widely assu... More >>

• Trailer Alert: It's Me, Musto!

  published Jan 30, 2008

  Yes, I'm overexposing myself once again in hopes that someone will notice already. Fresh off the Whore's Mascara video with my glorious bathroom scene, I now surface in Michael Ferreira's short film... More >>

• Schlock stars destroy Dreamgirls

  published Jan 30, 2008

  This week's YouTube treasure is a pop culture horror that bears repeat viewing, and not just to punish yourself for not caring if Hillary beats Obama. A version of the Dreamgirls song "We are a Fami... More >>

• Skipper'll Never Go Away Again: Carol Channing In Concert

  published Jan 29, 2008

  Before the parade passes by, you'd better catch Carol Channing in Concert Starring Richard Skipper, who's well known for ebulliently capturing the sibilant, wide-eyed wonder of one of Broadway's pla... More >>

• Taxicab Confession: Sir Lance-a-Lot Resurfaces

  published Jan 29, 2008

  photo by Elena Dahl Don't set foot in a cab, people! In many of them, the little promo screen will show Lance Bass's ex boy toy, Pedro Andrade, telling you which local pubs are worth checking out (t... More >>

• Kathy Griffin's Life on the G List!

  published Jan 29, 2008

  Chatty Kathy Griffin was cutely pert (or was it pertly cuter) cohosting New Year's Eve on CNN with my future husband Anderson Cooper. Now she plays with the gays some more by posing for an Advocate ... More >>

• Backstreet Boys Movie: Ain't Nothing But a Mistake

  published Jan 28, 2008

  Finally, the Jeanne Tanzy Williams story is ready to made into a movie! Jeanne Tanzy whatr Well, the lady says that as the manager of young A.J. McLean, she was instrumental in launching the Backstr... More >>

• No More Crack House for Winehouse

  published Jan 28, 2008

  The news that Amy Winehouse has said yes, yes, yes to rehab fills me with the craziest batch of mixed feelings since Courtney Love's Versace makeover and Paris Hilton's intended descent on Rwanda. T... More >>

• Who You Calling a SAGr

  published Jan 28, 2008

  What was your favorite part of last night's SAG awardsr Daniel Day-Lewis's drippy Heath Ledger speech or Julie Christie's witchy and wanton Alzheimer's joker Don't answer! Julie wins by a landslide! B... More >>

• Whoring out for Whore's Mascara

  published Jan 25, 2008

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• This Just In From a Reader About Madeleine McCann's Kidnapper

  published Jan 25, 2008

  "Doesn't the composite drawing of Madeleine McCann's kidnapper look like her mother with a moustacher"... More >>

• Heath Ledger Knew How to Flirt With the Gays!

  published Jan 25, 2008

  According to a very weird New York Times T magazine blog post by hotelier Jeff Klein, when an "old queen" event planner of the "gay persuasion" thought Heath had just checked him out in the lobby, H... More >>