Michael Musto

NYC is the one place where a freak can be a freak! Performance art, drag-queens, punk-rockers, to name but a few. This film is a tour through one of Manhattan's most interesting subcultures.

Based on Greg Walloch's one-man autobiographical show "White Disabled Talent," Keeping It Real is part stand-up comedy performance, part behind-the-scenes day-in-the-life, and part dramatization of Greg's monologues. (Avatar Films)

This documentary examines the life and legend of Warhol transvestite superstar Jackie Curtis who was a poet, playwright, performer, and one of the great personalities of his time. (Highberger Media Inc.)

This documentary we looks deep inside the world of one of the most prolific, talented, and outrageous New York theater artists of the last two decades, beloved playwright, actor, novelist, drag artist, and leading lady, Charles Busch. (Two Lions Productions)

A combination of music videos, animation, and interviews with artists highlight this shot-in-New York City video "magazine". (imdb)

How Divine, aka Harris Glenn Milstead, became John Waters' cinematic muse and an international drag icon. (imdb)

At age 73, writer and melancholy master of the bon mot, Quentin Crisp became an Englishman in New York. We follow Crisp about the streets of Manhattan, where Crisp seems very much at home, wearing eye shadow, appearing on a makeshift stage, making and repeating wry observations, talking to John Hurt and dining with friends. Others who know Crisp comment on him, his life as an gay man, and his place in the history of gays' social struggle. The portrait that emerges is of one wit and of suffering. (imdb)

documents the history of the troupe through both archival footage and contemporary interviews with the members, largely filmed at The Rivoli, the Toronto club where the troupe got their start on stage. (wikipedia)