Porn mogul Michael Lucas took some time today to send an open letter to our editor, Andrew Belonsky. He also sent it to his entire email list.
We didn’t want you guys to feel left out, so you can read it and laugh your ass off – after the jump, of course.
To the “editor” Andrew Belonsky,
A few points about all of this ugly and disturbing discussion that is going on your site.
First, you are saying that Michael Lucas is irrelevant, yet your search engine will show that, you sir, made over 80 postings about Michael Lucas in just 2 years!!! Always hateful and nasty, but no less, there are over 80 postings about the man you call irrelevant. You sir, are a hypocrite. A classic hypocrite, and if anything, you are obsessed with Michael Lucas, just as a few of your readers, who keep posting the same comments about his looks using different aliases. So it is not Michael Lucas who should get over himself, it is you who should get over Michael Lucas.
How about we take this to the next level?
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Today you emailed directly to “irrelevant” Michael Lucas at least four times, you called him a “hommie”(!) and accused him of making grammar mistakes in his comments. You are well aware that Michael Lucas came to this country ten years ago without any English skills, so I believe he is doing well for himself. Michael speaks three languages. How many languages can you manage, Mr. Belonsky? And let’s not even start talking about your writing; it’s poor at best. And that is quite embarrassing for someone who had a privilege to be born and educated in this country. You should stop trying to be Perez Hilton, You have neither the imagination nor the knowledge for such success.
Michael came to this country with nothing and built the biggest adult company on the east coast. He is on the covers of hundreds magazines all over the world, and the press cannot get enough of him. He lectures in the most prestigious American universities. He is invited to all the most glamorous events. He has great friends from all fields of life, from famous actors to writers to fashion designers, and from lawyers to doctors… the list is long. He brought his entire family to the United States and gave them a great life. This is what is called the American dream.
Now, what did you achieve? To be the editor of a tacky online blog? A blog that before you took over was smart and entertaining and now is labeled as “toxic to the gay community” by magazines like V* and has lost all its advertisers and readership since? What are your accomplishments? What do you have to offer other than these hateful postings that you accumulate throughout the day? You should be truly embarrassed of yourself, your blog, and your “career.” In comparison to Michael, you are nothing but a loser.
Let’s not mention the anti-Semites that you’ve attracted to this site. You are a magnet for the worst.
PS – It’s funny that Michael Lucas seems to be the only one who generates any kind of dicussion [sic] on your website. Always over 30 comments compared to the average 2-3 for your other postings.
*Michael Lucas is mistaken. V never called Queerty “toxic”. It was, in fact, a commenter calling themselves “V,” but whatever…
Derrick
The best part? The fact that he refers to himself as Michael Lucas.
Third person brings the lulz. 😀
J
Um, a tacky online blog he apparently reads in detail…
Alexa
I think my friend from England, reading over my shoulder, put it best – what a sad tosser.
mozzer13
Why does that letter give me the impression that Mr. Lucas has an assistant whose job consists of doing a Google search of “Michael Lucas” every hour on the hour? Bless his heart.
Cord Jefferson
He’s friends with lawyers!?!?!?!?! He really IS the king of East Coast gay pornography!
And lecturing at prestigious American universities means he’s now as cool as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad!
YAY, MICHAEL LUCAS!
Zoe
Fuck him Andrew. What a douche.
hisurfer
I think Clay Aiken and Ron Paul generate just as much discussion …
dons888
LOLZ! Dude is so wrapped up in his own fantasy world that he takes himself soooo seriously. Jeez Michael, you are just a pornographer. You are as relevant as Joe Francis of Girls Gone Wild.
afrolito
I could care less about La Lucas, but pretty much everything he said true.
Eminent Victorian
It’s a silly and sad letter, indeed.
I come to Queerty because it’s hilarious and often insightfully so. I don’t think my two graduate degrees in English suffer from seeing fleeting errors on a site that’s intended for taking the piss out of self-important clowns such as Mr. Lucas. Evidently, Lucas’s idea of his own contributions to, erm, culture, are even farther out there than I imagined. I hope that all the swells of true polite society have embraced him as tightly as he’d like to think. May they help him!
Chile Grande
This blog does suck though… discuss…
james_boston
Michael should be happy…I had no idea who he was ’til I started reading Queerty. Now I’m kinda sorry I know who he is, for many reasons but especially because of the first thing that came up when I googled his name. A few months back when he was fighting with someone else on this very site I did a search and a picture and video of him pissing on some poor trick and also swallowing his own piss came up…quite a contribution to our culture you’ve made Michael. I’m sure your family that you’re supporting with your whoring is proud.
What a douche.
michael Lucas
You are such a lier, Bolonski! This letter was written and signed by my office co- workers. And you just cut the signiture off ! But I agree with every point in this letter.
Now tell me Mr Big Mouth: Is all this sick attention you are giving me just because I refused to sleep with you a couple of years ago? When you cornered me in the club and told me how lonely you are and how much you hate your job and how tired you are of living with Israeli roommates? And that your readers are such idiots and that your boss is paying you pennies and makes you work 15 hours a day? Well, I really can not sleeep with a guy who’s breath smells like a trash can, who spits smelly saliva when he talks , who hates himself for his own jewishness, who is ugly not only outside but also inside and who is so unhappy and depressed.
And by the way: THIS IS YOUR 85TH post about me! Can you get obsessed with some other porn performer???
Frank Rizzo
Who is Michael Lucas and wtf is a blog…
poo
Written and signed by office co-workers? Of their own volition? Uh, right. What a self-absorbed whore Mr. Lucas is.
Toot LeMonde
all the world loves michael lunches
Matt
Bleh. Someday someone will explain to me how anyone manages to get off on this guy’s plasticky-looking crap. It just looks scary, sad, and poserish to me. But what do I know, I’ve never watched his oeuvre.
Tev
Who the fuck is Michael Lucas?
geoff
Faithful Queerty reader, could care less about Michael Lucas.
tovin
Mr Lucas, I’m speaking directly to you now. How insanely arrogant are you, that you think the only reason someone could dislike you is that you refused to sleep with them? Is in not possible that he dislikes you because you are a paranoid megalomaniac who is obsessed with his own celebrity?
And no, I never wanted to sleep with you.
Qjersey
Everyone has a right to complain about their “press,” but Goolander (ML) only makes himself look bad by listing his “skills,” “media presence” and engaging in personal attacks.
Not everyone defines success as fame Mr. Lucas.
I’m sure many of the persons who post negative comments about you on this site have achieved their own success in their careers. Are we supposed to post our resumes with our comments so you can judge if you are being criticized by your ‘equals’?
Respond to factual errors Mr. Lucas, leave your dick wagging self promotion and personal attacks out of it. Such behavior only generates the types of comments that set you off.
Unless of course, like Britney Spears, you love you name being mentioned regardless of the content.
TBSJR
Michael Lucas? YUCK
RJ
Who has the time to write letters like this? Lucas is a total douche and should be happy for ANY press on ANY blogs, especially Queerty.
Paul Coates
Well… he does have at least point, you COULD just stop reporting on him – and he’d easily just disappear, wouldn’t he…? Plus, he’s kinda hot.
Andy
Tev asks: “Who the fuck is Michael Lucas?”. A Russian (now a US citizen) and former rent boy. Perhaps Mister Lucas should take a trip back to his native Moscow at the end of May for Moscow Gay Pride. I’m sure the Mayor will make him welcome and fix him up with some nice hunky homo OMON militia men. Having been a travel agent in Moscow, I’m sure he will know how to get there …
Robert In Cali
“kinda hot”. Ick. I saw him on the “D-List” and saw a man who needs to step away from the makeup chair. The face alone is enough to make one sic up. How self involved does one have to be to go on a blogsite and post messages about HIMSELF. His views on Arabs is another thing that makes Mr. Lucas ugly. Hate speech, espically from one who is an immigrant and gay, is just pathetic and sad. Mr. Lucas, count your money, make your movies and leave the heavy lifting to those of us with bigger brains.
chris
I happen to enjoy Michael Lucas. I think he is sexy.
I passed him on the street once and he smiled and said “hi” in reply to my greeting.
I hope to see him in passing again someday.
Cheers
Oh MY!
Michelle Loose Ass (juvenile but funny to me) is the Britney Spears of Gay New York!
I think he should be in a Dark Alley Media video with hottie Owen Hawk. Owen could turn him into a puppet and Matthew Von Fistenberg could direct it all. I am sure they would be happy to help.
Ryan
I don’t like making fun of people because of the way they look… (ok thats such a total lie) but I think its quite telling that Zoolander (sincere apologies to Mr. Stiller) here is actually uglier on the inside than he is on the outside. Kudos to Queerty readers for not turning this one into an anti-semitic rant. There are -so- many ways to attack Mr. Lucas without falling to hate speech.
His self admitted hate mongering, his utter denial of plastic surgery, (I’m sorry your lips are bigger than your nose, and unless you’ve gone to the Michael Jackson school of reality that is not a natural thing)and also his utter and complete lack of humility. Hubris doesn’t look good on anyone. But especially someone with a face that looks like a permanently surprised chimpanzee (and an ugly one at that)
Warren
Michael’s e-mail is funny. He made his money by first being a lady of the night,then by being a porn star which is so sleezy. I was one of the people who begged queerty, page six and perez hilton to stop writing about him. So eat that Micahel.
Porn Junkie
I love porn – I have to say that first.
But, Michael Lucas is not the “King of Porn” he is not even the “Queen of Porn.” With all the new up-start companies like Ray Dragon, Black Scorpion, Dark Alley Media, Dirty Boy, and Pitbull. Ray Dragon is really the King of Porn, he has been doing it longer and he is hot and still looks like a man. Also, they have much better visual quality and are just plain more exciting. And, with the departure of Tony DeMarco from Lucas (who was the real director, behind La Dolche Vita)what will Lucas do now?
He has no real job, other than to take his boyfriends money out of his wallet in the middle of the night. Still prostituting himself, and there is nothing sadder than an aging prostitute. His boyfiend is actually way too good for him and more attractive in a real manly kind of way. You know the kind of guy who doesn’t need plastic surgery, who will age gracefully anyway.
stephan bertoli
its allways the same comments from same people from dark alley.the company that allways LOOOSE to michael lucas.MICHAEL was, is and will allways be the KING OF PORN.he got 27 nominees this year.he won 2 best picture in a row.
michael lucas is the king of porn!!!
Paul
These comments are such a joke! Isn’t it a surprise that anytime there is a post about Michael Lucas, there are always over 30 comments? On every other subject, there seem to be no readers. The answer is simple: it’s the same people from the Belonsky team, like his friends in a small adult company called Dark Alley Media, who keep posting those comments out of jealousy, as their company is so unsuccessful.
Or maybe I am wrong and you guys are all obsessed with Michael Lucas, and it’s not just the editor’s obsession. (Why spend so much time talking about someone who is irrelevant?)
Ryan
Its not quite that Paul. Its that I read most of the other stuff and I laugh its funny and usually insightful.
I see Michael Lucas, and firstly I wonder why Queerty continues to give him press at all, and then mostly I just get really really sad, because Michael feels the need to respond and rehash the same old tired comments about his own divinity and the crap that is queerty (that he also seems to scour daily for any mention of himself)
I think its kind of sad. so I post. Maybe my post will make him feel a little bit better about himself, because he is clearly in need of it.
rom
Why are you guys so anti-Michael Lucas? He does look good, is veeeeerrryyyy successful, he does have writing skills, and he is a good activist for Israel and the gay community at large.He brought his whole family from Russia to the US to enjoy a better life in America which is proof positive that he is good natured too!
So what the heck are you guys complaining about??
Aren’t you guys simply jealous?rom
tony
@stephan bertoli: stephan/ben trying to find you for years. Tony P from Nashua