Alt Variety was a New York City-based monthly publication dealing with alternative and subversive themes that launched online in February 2012 and closed in July 2013.
[8][9] Alt Variety published celebrity interviews, advocated fringe culture, the arts and First Amendment rights and covered themes such as recreational drug use and pornography.
[9] During its short tenure, Alt Variety published several notable exclusives with prominent counter culture figures such as Tommy Chong, film director Abel Ferrara, Ted McIlvenna (founder Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality), and "Death Rapper" Necro, to name a few.
After receiving the magazines, legal representatives from MJ did a content review of current and past issues, and strongly urged Duffy not to move forward with the distribution deal due to the extreme and offensive, uncensored nature of the stories and images.
[12][13][14][15] Alt Variety also enlisted Judah Friedlander to help raise public awareness about the imperiled parade after founder and editor in chief Lee Wong asked the comedian to create a service announcement to solicit donations.
Since 2015 Alt Variety has produced 8 global runs of Walker's plat The Wake of Dick Johnson in addition to the play's feature films adaptation for Amazon Studios.