Tag Archives: Michael Musto

Michael Musto: Don’t Stay Friends With Homocons

Michael Musto writes for Out Magazine: My time spent on social networks has been way more gratifying since I decided to block anyone who’s tried to crawl out from under a rock and chirp about how Trump isn’t really bad to LGBTQs at all. (“After all, everyone said we’d be in death camps, and we’re not” is a typically lame-brained …

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Broadway Stars Unite For Satire Of Russia’s Crackdown On LGBT People

A galaxy of Broadway stars have gotten together for skits and songs that mock Russia’s crackdown on LGBT people. You’ll recognize a lot of people: Harvey Fierstein, Laura Benanti, Michael Cerveris, Joanna Gleason, Jonathan Groff, Jackie Hoffman, Andrea McArdle, Brad Oscar, Stephen Schwarz, John Tartaglia, Mary Testa, Michael Urie, and many more. There are even cameos from Dan Savage and …

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Larry Kramer Accepts Special Tony Award

True to form, even getting an honorary Tony Award managed to piss off Larry Kramer. Michael Musto reports for Out Magazine: Downstairs, I found gramps Larry Kramer, who’d been briefly seen receiving a special award for his humanitarian work. He was sitting, but not in a wicker chair. And his normal heart wasn’t smiling. “It was all fucked up,” fumed …

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The Show Musto Go On

Famed New York City nightlife columnist Michael Musto has landed on his feet after being canned from the Village Voice after three decades. Venerable Village Voice columnist Michael Musto — whose departure from the weekly this month caused outrage from devotees — tells us he’s starting a slew of new gigs. “I’ll be doing a weekly interview feature for Gawker, …

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Big Layoffs At The Village Voice

Gawker reports that the Village Voice has laid off some its best known staffers, including the one person most closely identified with the title. We hear that executives from the Voice’s parent company flew in for today’s massacre. Michael Musto, the Voice’s nightlife columnist and most high profile remaining staffer, has been let go, as was rumored last week. (There …

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HomoQuotable – Michael Musto

“It’s a shame the ex-NYC mayor never came out. It’s tragic that he hid behind excuses like the fact that he was old and wasn’t sexual at all anymore. Old people are still sexual–and if you’re gay, you’re still gay–and besides, he could have commented on his past. But Ed was so paranoid on the subject that when I interviewed …

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From Katie To Queens To Teblows

Musto calls it “the best headline in history.” But which one is he referring to?

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Michael Musto As Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie’s bare leg was a hot internet meme for a second or two in 2012. Inside the year-end issue of Village Voice, you’ll also find Musto as the Tan Mom. Read his 2012–in-review essay at the link.

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HomoQuotable – Michael Musto

“Just when you assumed gay self-loathing had been deposited in the dead-chicken bins, along comes a new wave of self-flagellation aimed to throw us under the hate truck. At a time when gays have made significant progress and other people are fully available to do all the hating, some gays crazily want to join in! I’m talking about the wave …

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Quote Of The Day – Michael Musto

“Free speech means you can generally say whatever you want without being carted off to prison or otherwise punished by law. But it doesn’t guarantee that there won’t be any repercussions! You can run through the street yelling ‘Blacks shouldn’t be allowed to get married,’ but that doesn’t protect you from people boycotting your store and using their free speech …

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Homocon Tweet Of The Day

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Michael Musto On GOProud

“So a bunch of sef-loathing gays endorses someone who wants to rewrite the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage, and when someone attacks them for it, they insult his looks? And they reduce my career, without even addressing the issue at hand? I was hired as an entertainment columnist in 1984, but expanded that from day one to include gay (and …

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Headline Of The Day

GOProud is super-pissed at Michael Musto.

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SLIDESHOW: Broadway Beauty Pageant

Last night Mamma Mia’s Andrew Chapelle took the tiara in the Ali Forney Center’s Sixth Annual Broadway Beauty Pageant, their gay gay gay and wonderfully hilarious competition among Broadway’s most talented chorus boys. Participants included Andrew Chappelle (Mamma Mia!), Wilkie Ferguson, III (Porgy and Bess), Corey Mach (Godspell), Jesse Swimm (Mary Poppins) and Anthony Wayne (Priscilla Queen of the Desert). …

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Michael Musto As Donald Trump

From Musto’s year-end recap column: New York became fun again in 2011! Thanks to a global economic meltdown! The lingering desperation in the air brought down our emotional walls, and New Yorkers became friendlier and more open than we’ve been in ages, most of us no longer propped up by elitism as we reached out to one another like we …

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Fork On The Left, Knife In The Back

Last night I attended the launch party for gossip legend Michael Musto’s above-titled book, where hundreds of bold-face names collided with hipsters, scenesters, and queensters all vying to get their names into large print. Where else but a Musto party would you see F-Troop octogenerian Larry Storch chatting amiably next to drag star Flotilla Debarge while samba dancers spin around …

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NYC Still Has A Club Kids Scene

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NOM To Sue Over Ladyfingers?

When Carrie “Ladyfingers” Prejean was busted for homemade porn videos in which she explored her tingly no-no parts, NOM burned rubber in distancing themselves from their former hero. However Michael Musto today reports an interesting development. Well, outside Sister Act last night, a guy approached me and said, “Hi, Michael, I’m Keith Lewis from the Miss California USA pageant.” “Oh, …

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HomoQuotable – Michael Musto

“Calvin, darling, you’re embarrassing yourself. What’s worse, you’re embarrassing the whole community. You were never really that much of a gay hero in the first place. Remember when you suddenly had a wife because, as AIDS made it uncool to be gay, you took the wussy way out and closeted yourself so you could sell more T shirts and perfume? …

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Lady Musto

Michael Musto’s year in review.

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