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

• Jennifer Aniston Needs Reverse Anger Management

  published Nov 17, 2008

  Last week, it was revealed that America's sweetheart Jennifer Aniston had finally broken her silence on Brangelina by telling Vogue that Angelina having spilled the beans on details of the relationshi... More >>

• Wanda Sykes Comes Out

  published Nov 16, 2008

  I was the first one to write that comic Wanda Sykes had shown up with her girlfriend in Fire Island and at a gay bar in New York a couple of years ago. I even wrote her up in my "Glass Closet" cover s... More >>

• YouTube Treasure: Faye Dunaway as Mae West!

  published Nov 14, 2008

  Faye Dunaway did Joan Crawford even better than Crawford herself, but did you know she did Mae West toor I mean played her! In 2002's The Calling (video title: Man of Faith), feisty Faye showed up a... More >>

• Ken Russell, Master Filmmaker, Speaks

  published Nov 14, 2008

  Ken Russell, the British director of such lush, visceral epics as Tommy and Women In Love, swept into town to direct a bizarre theatrical thriller called Mindgame, and nicely paused for a little ps... More >>

• Paris Hilton's Romantic Secrets

  published Nov 13, 2008

  Paris Hilton seems to have finally clicked with a guy--Good Charlotte's Benji Madden--so I cornered her last week to ask why the relationship seems to be working better than her and Nicole did. "Ple... More >>

• I Met Elton's Husband at a Gay Bar!

  published Nov 13, 2008

  Remember when, while talking to a pretty blonde woman at Beatrice Inn, I asked her name and it turned out to be Kirsten--as in Dunst! Well, though I usually have spot-on celebrity radar, my old head i... More >>

• Nightlife Tidbits....

  published Nov 13, 2008

  At Sunday night's gay bash the Cuckoo Club, which has now taken residence at the Park, I got lots of attention, all of it positive except for one especially irritating douche nozzle. The guy made a ... More >>

• The Ultimate Paris Hilton Interview

  published Nov 12, 2008

  It's in my column this week! Click here and you'll get a gander into Paris's world, as she tells me what it's like to have her face melting off (in her new movie, that is) and how she's grown and de... More >>

• Ex Child Demon Plays Pat Nixon

  published Nov 12, 2008

  I was thrilled to hear that Patty McCormack--who brilliantly played evil little Rhoda Penmark in the 1956 camp classic The Bad Seed--is portraying the marginally less scary Pat Nixon in the imminent... More >>

• New Magazine Grins and Bears It

  published Nov 12, 2008

  It's a tough time for publishing--when CosmoGirl folded, my entire crayon-and-perfume-filled world exploded into smelly sawdust--but a new magazine is entering the landscape and it's big and hairy! ... More >>

• Two Harry Potter Stars Become Invisible, As If By Wizardry

  published Nov 11, 2008

  Harry Potter supporting player David Thewlis recently had a bodyguard guide him through six hours at Disneyland because he was certain he'd be swarmed by overanxious kiddies who'd recognize him from... More >>

• The Most Irritating Phrases on Earth! Absolutely!

  published Nov 11, 2008

  Some Oxford database or other just came out with a list of the 10 most irritating phrases that people say, starting with "At the end of the day," moving down to stuff like like "With all due respect" ... More >>

• The Paris Hilton Interview!

  published November 12, 2008

  We need Paris Hilton more than ever. A seemingly placid slate on which to project our hopes and dreams, she's become the Mickey Mouse for the... More >>

• Stop Blaming Sarah Palin!

  published Nov 11, 2008

  As the Republicans scramble to deal with the death blow of the recent election, all their focus in the last week has been on how Sarah Palin was the root of the party's public demise. And she was! B... More >>

• Who Should Be In Obama's Cabinetr

  published Nov 10, 2008

  President elect Barack Obama has foolishly jumped the gun and appointed a cabinet member without waiting for my sage advice! He's already fucked up! Here's who he SHOULD be tapping for the various k... More >>

• Roseanne Hates Hate, But Loves Standup

  published Nov 10, 2008

  A long-standing friend of my column, Roseanne has always served delicious outrage and bracing truths, all packaged as cutting-edge comedy. Well, our own esteemed food critic, Robert Sietsema, tells m... More >>

• I'm Going To The Dogs!

  published Nov 10, 2008

  As I recently admitted, if someone asks me to do something, I always say "Of course" without bothering to ask just what it is. And now, it seems, I've gotten myself into judging a pet talent search ... More >>

• Prop 8 Protest in New York at Mormon Temple!

  published Nov 09, 2008

  This is the invite of the year: "LGBT New Yorkers and Straight Allies Please Join Us... Wednesday, November 12, 6:30-8:00pm at New York Manhattan Mormon Temple, 125 Columbus Ave at 65th Street Te... More >>

• The 'Out 100' LGBT Heroes!

  published Nov 07, 2008

  Every year, Out magazine presents a list of the 100 gays who made this world a better place (The OUT gays, that is. The closeted ones don't always help things along too much.) Well, the Out website is... More >>

• TV Gay Characters Keep Disappearing!

  published Nov 07, 2008

  Last week I taped a segment for Logo channel's news show whereby Itay Hod quizzed me about how TV seems to have a full plate of gay characters these days, but as I put it, "a lot of times they end u... More >>

• I'm in a Big Gay Musical

  published Nov 06, 2008

  I was just cast in a movie, kids, and it's a real stretch: I play a character called "Gay Man"! It's in Big Gay Musical, a film by Casper Andreas, who previously did such fine features as Slutty Sum... More >>

• Vodka Stinger's Top Five Broadway Videos

  published Nov 06, 2008

  My favorite bar, as you know, is the lovely Pieces over on Christopher Street, and my bestest night there is Wednesday, when after the drunks play a weekly game of Win, Lose, or Draw!, glittery drag... More >>

• Show Biz Couples Don't Work!

  published Nov 06, 2008

  Meryl Streep tends to work a lot--and so does her marriage! And no doubt that's because her husband happens to be a sculptor, not another show biz type who's competing with her for Oscar nominations... More >>

• Facts Of Life Star Actually Straight!

  published Nov 05, 2008

  That's what my rerun-obsessed Deep Throat told me the other day, and my jaw is still scraping the pavement over it. You'll have to click here and find out just which Facts of Life star I'm talking a... More >>

• The Demographics of the Proposition 8 Vote

  published Nov 05, 2008

  Proposition 8--which aimed to ban gay marriage in California--was headed towards a "narrow defeat" according to CNN's website. One reason for the close vote, the L.A. Times reported, is that exit poll... More >>