Michael Musto was born on December 3,1955 and is an American journalist who has long been a prevalent presence in entertainment-related publications, as well as on websites and television shows.
21 Facts About Michael Musto
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Michael Musto is the author of the books Downtown and Manhattan on the Rocks, as well as a compilation of selected columns published as La Dolce Musto: Writings By The World's Most Outrageous Columnist and a subsequent collection, Fork on the Left, Knife in the Back.
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Michael Musto currently writes about pop cultural and sociopolitical issues for the Daily Beast and pens a monthly gossip column called "Read Now, Cry Later" for Queerty.
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Michael Musto was born in Manhattan to an Italian American family.
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Michael Musto was raised in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, and graduated from Columbia University in 1976.
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Michael Musto is gay and has been published regularly in several LGBT publications, including Out and The Advocate.
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Michael Musto contributes to Huffington Post, has written the weekly, entertainment-related Musto Unfiltered column for NewNowNext.
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In 1982, he began writing for Details, then a downtown style-and-nightlife magazine, and in 1984, Michael Musto began his Village Voice column, after having already written features for the publication.
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Michael Musto was a great personal friend with the videographer, Nelson Sullivan who filmed much of the footage we have today of the "Club Kids", as well as obsessively chronicling Michael Musto's exploits and those of RuPaul and Sylvia Miles.
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Michael Musto used his column to lambast homophobia and to demand attention to the growing AIDS crisis, Michael Musto joining the activist group ACT UP and engaging in their highly influential rallies and protests.
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Michael Musto was featured on the cover of New York magazine in a 1994 "Gossip Mafia" story that spanned New York's most influential tattlers, including Richard Johnson, George Rush, and Jeannette Walls.
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Michael Musto appeared in drag in a blue dress in the all drag queen music video for Cyndi Lauper's remake of her single " Girls Just Want To Have Fun".
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Michael Musto has done cameos in videos by TV on the Radio, Sherry Vine, Sharon Needles, Jinkx Monsoon, Larry Tee, and Gorgon City featuring Jennifer Hudson, among many others.
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Michael Musto penned several writeups in The Village Voice about the 1996 murder of Andre "Angel" Melendez, helping bring national attention to a case that resulted in the trial and conviction of Michael Alig and Robert "Freeze" Riggs.
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Michael Musto was the first to report Alig's firing from The Limelight club by owner Peter Gatien and to allude to talk about a missing person from Alig's sphere.
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In 2001, Michael Musto appeared in a groundbreaking ad campaign for Fortunoff in which he sported a wedding veil, campily promoting the possibility of same-sex marriage.
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That year, Michael Musto added "Theater Producer" to his resume, when he produced the musical comedy Perfect Harmony about the search for truth, love, and high school a cappella championship glory, which played Off-Broadway in New York City.
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In 2011, Michael Musto was named one of the "Out 100" as one of the country's most influential LGBT personalities.
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In May 2013, Michael Musto was laid off from The Village Voice, but in 2016, he was back as an entertainment correspondent, writing three cover stories that year.
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Michael Musto was a regular commentator on MSNBC's Countdown With Keith Olbermann, where he sardonically skewered the antics of Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and other scandalous celebrities du jour.
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Michael Musto played a lead role and received rave reviews from Eileen Shapiro of Huffington Post, for the film Vamp Bikers Tres by Eric Rivas, as a head doctor named Hedda Hopper alongside Lillo Brancato and Angel Salazar.