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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2010 Stories by Michael Musto

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  FEATURED STORY

  Fat People Will Have To Pay Double To Fly!

  published Jan 21, 2010

  Don't you just hate it when you're seated on a flight next to a morbidly obese person, and their rolls of flesh spill onto your lap and interfere with your coffee drinkingr Or perhaps you're a morbid... More >>

• Which Separated Oscar Winner Slept With a Trannie And...r

  published Jan 20, 2010

  Please! Do you honestly think I'm going to tell you the restr You'll have to CLICK HERE for my regular roundup of breathless blind items, telling you who did what to whom and why the fuck notr You'll... More >>

• Make Way For Drag Star Dallas Dubois

  published Jan 20, 2010

  Fresh blood on the drag scene is so rare that we must throw ticker parades whenever there's a new queen in town--like Dallas Dubois, the young lovely whom I saw do a high-kickin' set at Boots & Saddle... More >>

• Lady Gaga Did a Children's Book In 2007!

  published Jan 20, 2010

  Well, a children's audio book. Well, she was featured on a couple of songs in a two-CD audio book that was done to go along with The Portal in the Park by Cricket Casey.And boosted by Gaga's large-sc... More >>

• Gosh, I Hate To Say This About Avatar....

  published Jan 20, 2010

  ...seeing as it's the biggest movie in humankind and it's saving the movie biz and in fact the entire world with its lavish tale of indigenous humanoids.But after the first 45 minutes of awe and wonde... More >>

• Does The Money Really Get To Haitir

  published Jan 20, 2010

  Everywhere you go, people are asking for donations to help the people in earthquake-devastated Haiti, and one can't help responding by immediately opening one's heart and wallet. Even at D'Agostino, ... More >>

• Blind Items on Who's Gay, Who's Wasted, and Who's Great in Bed!

  published January 19, 2010

  A mess of blind items is coming your way like a cannonball made of soiled confetti, but please bear with me and indulge my coverage of the... More >>

• It's Meryl Vs. Sandra!

  published Jan 19, 2010

  Did anyone think the Best Actress Oscar race would boil down to a battle royale between the greatest actress of her generation, Meryl Streep, and Miss Congeniality, Sandra Bullockr No, but with both ... More >>

• Good News For Queer Book Lovers!

  published Jan 19, 2010

  And by that I mean both book lovers who are queer and also lovers of queer books (though those two groups often intersect at various intellectually cruisey bookstores and websites). As a Canadian sou... More >>

• I Now Understand The Allure of the Red Carpet

  published Jan 19, 2010

  At a couple of recent events, publicists asked me to walk the red carpet, and I got to go to the other side of the rope and experience a reasonable facsimile of the feeling of stardom for a change. W... More >>

• Vivien Leigh Just Got Cast as Scarlett O'Hara!

  published Jan 19, 2010

  Oh, hush. Bear with me, if you please. Let's pretend it's 1939 and Vivien Leigh just bagged the female lead in Gone with The Wind over the other top candidates, like Paulette Goddard, Joan Bennett, ... More >>

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  Golden Globes Highs and Lows

  published Jan 18, 2010

  THE GOOD:MO'NIQUE: Her speech seemed earnest and passionate and she clinched the Oscar with it by proving that she DOES care and IS grateful.CHLOE SEVIGNY: Even after someone stepped on her dress, she... More >>

• Cher and Christina Together In a Movie!

  published Jan 15, 2010

  Here are fabulous shots from dlisted.com of two big-lunged divas, Cher and Christina Aguilera, as they film the provocatively titled feature Burlesque. Are they dolled up enough to merit the headline... More >>

• Ellen Burstyn, Megan Mullally, and Elaine Stritch!

  published Jan 15, 2010

  Ellen Burstyn, Megan Mullally, and Elaine Stritch! Yes, they're all together in this YouTube clip from The Ellen Burstyn Show, a groaner-filled 1986 sitcom unworthy of three talents of this caliber... More >>

• A Neon-Colored Night of Freaky Fabulosity at Vandam

  published Jan 15, 2010

  On Sunday nights down at the club Greenhouse, freakies mix with hot twinks in the glittery fishbowl known as Vandam, hosted by the immortal Susanne Bartsch and Kenny Kenny, who serve glamour like no ... More >>

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  Let's Ban "Pre-Op Transsexual"!

  published Jan 15, 2010

  No, not the actual people, but the term itself. It's fallen as out of favor as stiletto heels at an office picnic, and I'm pretty sure I know why. The term assumes that the transsexual is going to g... More >>

• Drag Queens Need To Update Their Acts

  published Jan 14, 2010

  I love drag queens more than life itself, and I appreciate the timeless appeal of their Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe, and Eartha Kitt impressions. It's important to keep those amazing legends alive! B... More >>

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  RIP Gay Bars

  published Jan 14, 2010

  The aughts saw the death of a whole slew of gay establishments where we drank, canoodled, and made all new frenemies, and fortunately, Dan Avery of Next magazine has taken the time to put them all tog... More >>

• Did Conan Do The Right Thingr

  published Jan 14, 2010

  By now the smoke has cleared on Conan O'Brien's decision to turn down that later slot, and the screams of despair from his staff, who'd transplanted their entire lives in hopes of a long-term career, ... More >>

• Liev Schreiber/Naomi Watts Insight

  published Jan 14, 2010

  At a New York Times Arts & Leisure Weekend event the other day, Liev Schreiber talked about working with his lady Naomi Watts in the 2006 period drama The Painted Veil. First of all, Liev said, they ... More >>

• Tons of Barbra-Related Art, All In One Place!

  published Jan 14, 2010

  Do you unapologetically feel that Barbra Streisandand "art" should be uttered in the same sentencer (I do.) Have you ever longed for a site where they present virtually every imaginable kind of art p... More >>

• I Met "Sully" Sullenberger!

  published Jan 13, 2010

  Yes, I got to corner the pilot who made the only heroic gesture of 2009! And what did I ask himr "Were you really saving your own assr" CLICK HERE for my column in which he pushes me into the Hudson-... More >>

• "The Beaver" Is Changing Its Name!

  published Jan 13, 2010

  The Canadian magazine called The Beaver has finally realized that the word has double meanings.And that if you leave it to Beaver, people might make dirty jokes by the watercooler--or even online. ... More >>

• Lady Gaga Will Hang With The Gays Again

  published Jan 13, 2010

  UPDATE: THIS ITEM AIN'T TRUE, SAY GAGA'S PEOPLE. THIS SATURDAY, SHE'LL STRICTLY BE IN ATLANTIC CITY, DOING A CONCERT, THEN HOSTING A BENEFIT FOR MARRIAGE EQUALITY. CLUB 57 IS NOT ON HER SCHEDULE. Ta... More >>

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  Howard Stern Has Turned His Back on Artie Lange!

  published Jan 13, 2010

  That's what Chaunce Hayden contends in Steppin' Out magazine. Hayden feels that while Howard has provided a lot of lip service to his deep, abiding love for Artie--the messy but funny comic who recen... More >>