Get Out! GAY Magazine – Issue 350 – January 17, 2018
Featuring content from the hottest gay and gay-friendly spots in New York, each (free!) issue of Get Out! highlights the bars, nightclubs, restaurants, spas and other businesses throughout NYC’s metropolitan area that the city’s gay population is interested in.
Featuring content from the hottest gay and gay-friendly spots in New York, each (free!) issue of Get Out! highlights the bars, nightclubs, restaurants, spas and other businesses throughout NYC’s metropolitan area that the city’s gay population is interested in.
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BY EILEEN SHAPIRO<br />
CELEBRITY CORRESPONDENT<br />
Michael<br />
Musto<br />
GLAM AWARDS LIVING LEGEND RECIPIENT<br />
Congratulations, Michael Musto! The iconic journalist, author, actor, recording artist,<br />
TV/radio personality and nightlife performer Michael Musto will be honored this year<br />
on <strong>January</strong> 21 at The 19th Annual Glam Awards, as the “Glam Awards Living Legend<br />
Recipient.”<br />
In my book, there is no one more deserving. Musto has orbited the orgasmic<br />
confines of New York’s effervescent nightlife since the days of Studio 54 until the<br />
present, in the most candid and fabulous way possible. Aside from writing for “The<br />
Village Voice” for nearly 30 years, his columns have appeared in “The New York<br />
Times,” “<strong>Out</strong>,” “The Advocate” and “Paper” magazine, to name just a few, and his<br />
literary presence is currently appearing in NewNowNext.com.<br />
Over the years Musto has been celebrating nearly every nightlife event known<br />
to New York, raging war on homophobia and supporting every queen who ever<br />
painted, as well as never forgetting to give credit to someone praiseworthy. Coined<br />
by “The Advocate” “as both historian and spokesman for the gay community,”<br />
Musto has earned this award with his heart and soul...not to mention that he has<br />
won the Glam Award for Best Blogger, seven times!<br />
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year.<br />
I hate the holidays, because it’s a time of<br />
forced merriment, and it’s also a time where<br />
everything shuts down, and I have to keep<br />
delivering my deadlines. You know how that is?<br />
So congratulations on your<br />
Lifetime award. Again, how many<br />
have you received thus far?<br />
Enough for a lifetime. I feel like Lauren Bacall<br />
at this point...but alive.<br />
What does this particular award<br />
mean to you?<br />
Well, it’s a great honor, because the Glam<br />
Awards is always your nightlife peers, and<br />
Cherry Jubilee personally chose me for this.<br />
I’ve had a long-time relationship with the<br />
Glam Awards; I co-hosted three times, I won a<br />
bunch of times.<br />
Like a thousand times.<br />
Not as much as Meryl Streep. The Awards<br />
itself are always a sort of family reunion of<br />
the LGBT nightlife community. It’s one of the<br />
times of the year where we get everyone<br />
together in the same room. It’s a great<br />
electrical feeling.<br />
How many times have you actually<br />
won the Glam Award?<br />
Seven, but who’s counting. One time I tied<br />
with Bunny. It’s like when Barbra Streisand tied<br />
with Katharine Hepburn.
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