In a recent interview, Michael Lucas, the founder of the gay adult film studio Lucas Entertainment, announced that he will stop performing in his studio’s films in 2020, though he’ll continue to produce and direct. Lucas founded the studio in 1998 and has performed in 233 of its scenes.
But the far more interesting thing in the interview is the fact that Lucas says “I never considered myself a Democrat or a Republican,” despite having espoused Republican policies and candidates over the last decade.
When interviewer Michael Musto tells Lucas, “Somehow, people perceive you as a gay Republican, and I think that’s one of the reasons some people dislike you,” Lucas responds, “I saw that on the industry blogs. Of course, I was pretty outspoken in the past about my support for Israel and opposition to radical Islam, both issues I used to associate more with the Republican party.”
As one NSFW gay adult film blog pointed out, a 2012 Yahoo News article stated, “Lucas, by the way, considers himself a conservative, votes Republican and donates generously to several libertarian and right-wing causes. And when he casts a ballot in the November election, he hopes it will be for Mitt Romney.”
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Lucas says he has always cared more about “the issues” than political affiliations. But the most Republican position Lucas holds is his contempt for Islam and Muslim culture.
In a 2010 column for The Advocate, Lucas dismissed Islamic culture by stating “whatever that may be” (even though Muslims invented algebra, coffee, and surgery). In 2016, he wrote a column that ran both in the far-right website Brietbart.com and the gay magazine Out defending gay men who vote Republican.
In 2017, Lucas appeared on the podcast of right-wing conspiracy theorist Aaron Klein, author of The REAL Benghazi Story: What the White House and Hillary Don’t Want You to Know. During their discussion, Lucas referred to all Muslims as anti-gay “barbarians,” even though American Muslims support same-sex marriage more than Evangelical Christians.
These days, Russian-born Lucas says he voted for Clinton in 2016, considers Trump as beholden to Russian President Vladimir Putin and calls Republicans “extremists.” Though many gay men undoubtedly share his opposition to nearly 20% of the world population that self-identifies as Muslim, it isn’t a Democratic position. Heck, it’s hardly American.
Billy Budd
The only good thing about him is the size of his dickie. Apart from that, he has a weird mouth, like a frog’s mouth, and is a very nasty person.
stutex
He always has those pouty duck lips, which women do when taking selfies. He must think it’s sexy, but I think it makes him look silly, just like those shallow women and their selfies.
Peter
He’s had so much plastic surgery his asshole is now his mouth. OK: That was nasty, but I’ve read many outrageous comments he’s made over the years and it felt good to let one fly.
cheri1961
His brain is between his legs unfortunately . No brain. He is as stupid as Donald Trump.
Pistolo
What’s always bizarre to me is that someone like Michael Lucas who is Jewish is just one degree away from Muslim, one degree away from Christian. Whenever I see Christian and Jewish people act Islamaphobic all I can think is “This religion reflects YOURS in many ways”. Anything you find atrocious in the Koran has some variant in the Bible or Torah, trust me. They’re quite similar.
Cacti
You obviously know nothing about Judaism lol
Jewish culture and muslim culture are very different.
KerryB
The one thing ALL religions have in common is that they are a LIFESTYLE CHOICE!
nm4047
his comments are not that different to the views of catholics vs protestants, variation on a faith but opposites in acceptance of each others belief.
winemaker
Michael lucas although Russian isn’t Jewish. He’s UNCUT and Jews are circumcised with a full FORESKIN, yum!
Juanjo
Cacti – Jews and Muslims have far more in common with each other than they have in common with Christians. In the US, Muslims and Jews often cooperate and coordinate on issues impacting on their communities. One example was after the recent attacks in Pittsburgh, the Muslims rallied around the Jewish community and assisted them. Jews have done the same for Muslims in similar situations. Back when my law practice was going full blast, I represented many Muslim small business owners who sought me out because I was Jewish. They did not trust the Christians because Christian business people including lawyers have a reputation in the Muslim community for not keeping their word. A lot of Jews have the same opinion for Christians.
Even Netanyahu has commented regarding Christian “support” for Israel noting that the sole reason for that support is fundamentalist Christians believe that all the Jews in Israel have to either convert to Christianity or die in a horrible war for their mythical second coming to take place. Netanyahu says he just ignores and uses people affected by this religious bullshit to help protect Israel.
Lacuevaman
he is a jew (born of a jewish woman) but was never was circumsized.
Aires the Ram
Ditto.
Aires the Ram
This is the truth. Get ready for the onslaught of criticism from those gays on the left who want open borders, who “think” muslims don’t want to kill them, who want socialism/communism. They will attack you, just be ready. Oh, and by-the-way, you’ll have to cut up and send back in, your ‘gay card’, they won’t let you be a member anymore because you won’t march in lock-step with them and their liberal leftist viewpoints. Just wanted to give you a “heads up” on that.
Xzamilloh
Here’s another head’s up jakejacob: None of that stuff will happen because this is the internet and not a George Orwell dystopia you nutjobs want so badly to see in the real world to justify your rampant paranoia.
Kangol
Are you that out of your fricking mind? Trump is buddies with the country that is the home of radical Islam, Saudi Arabia! He’s such a puppet that he can’t even criticize or admit what a dumb rock knows, which is that MBS ordered and oversaw the murder of that Saudi-American dissident journalist! How can you not grasp that Trump doesn’t “hate Islam,” but in fact is working hand in glove with two of the richest Islamic–and hardcore Islamic in the case of Saudi Arabia–governments on earth? Do you know what Saudi Arabia does to gay men and gay people??? WAKE UP, gay MAGATS!
Kangol
Michael Lucas should stick to porn. He’s a fanatic who was partially responsible for the LGBTQ Center in NYC canceling an event for another Jewish person, a famous writer, and all groups that had a different viewpoint on Palestinians and the Israeli settlements. He has a dicey reputation in the porn industry, and has been publicly denounced at various porn awards, not only for his rancid politics, his hypocrisy about raw sex, his anti-gay comments (at Oxford and elsewhere), but also his nasty attitude and behavior over the years. He can embrace the GOP all he wants, but he shouldn’t forget that they, like Donald Trump and the NRA, are in the pocket of Russia, which is extremely anti-gay and notoriously anti-Semitic, which is one reason HE isn’t living over there any more. He even made a documentary about how racist and homophobic Russia is!
Jon
The event at the Center was cancelled because of a wide spectrum of LGBT people complaining the organization which was not LGBT related was pushing anti-Semitic rhetorician the event was neither educational or a forum but a political fundraiser to raise money for a flotilla who goal was a confrontation with Israel’s military. the first event was cancelled before Lucas was even aware of the fundraiser. Lucas claimed he was the reason the event was cancelled but The author in question regularly defends anti-Semitism and frequently smears and libels other LGBT people whom she sees as rivals. If you read the article one of the main reasons Lucas is distancing himself from the GOP is because of Putin. Unlike Mati Weiderpass and Ian Reisner, Lucas has not supported or donated to religious right Republicans. I will not defend Lucas beyond these specific points as he does have a history of Islamophobia that though he states he is against ultra conservative radical Muslims, his comments cross over into a broader Islamophobia no different than activists who claim to be anti Israel but whose positions and statements are broadly anti-Semitic. He tends to support libertarian candidates. Lucas has done a great job of pushing HIV prevention in porn when prevention was backsliding and criticizing pre-PrEP barebacking porn was unpopular. He then became an early vocal advocate of PrEP in the porn industry. I strongly disagree with Lucas’s electoral politics and the broad strokes he used to attack Muslims. I do respect his HIV activism and his work in brining attention to LGBT and Jewish human rights violations in Russia.
Kangol
@Jon, Sarah Schulman is Jewish and not anti-Semitic (and saying so slanders her), and, as you note, he claimed that he was behind the Center’s silencing of her. It was disgusting on many levels, and indefensible.
PinkoOfTheGange
@Jon did you make sure the check would clear before you posted the above?
Hussain-TheCanadian
@ Aires the Ram
Well if you think Muslims to be your enemies then you need to square why your politicians and major corporations love “Muslim money” so much, and why your government continues its support for Muslim despots across the planet. Why is it that your CIA and rancid politicians sell weapons, spy tech, and give espionage training to horrific dictatorial regimes all across the Muslim world?
When Muslim reformers demand political change, democracy and freedom, your politicians and media are silent when they get arrested, tortured and murdered. Have you not been following the Khashoggi’s case?
You’re either a troll, a lying sack of shit, or simply a member of the Christian Taliban, take your pick.
Oh and speaking of socialism, where were your ilk when the American government bailed out the banks and other major corporations when they callopsed in 2008? People like you seem ok with socialism when the pillars of capitalism are bailed out with the money of the American people, but bailing people who got fcked over and lost everything in 2008, nah no socialism for them.
Chrisk
Donnie’s ambivalent towards Islam. However, he does love $ and the Sauds got allot of it.
Chrisk
“American Muslims support same-sex marriage more than Evangelical Christians”.
That may be true but go to any Muslim dominate country and that goes right out the window. The only discussion will be how best to kill them.
Jon
American Muslims support LGBT rights more than ultra orthodox Jews as well. However most American Jews support LGBT equality. That is the manipulation and spin of the original statement. Ultra Orthodox Jews and Evangelical Christians are a conservative minority amongst all Americans who broadly fall under the category of Jew or Christian. Similarly most American Muslims are rather modern in their thinking but we also do have a small segment of radical ultra conservative Muslims in the US who are as strongly homophobic as Evangelicals. If anyone wants to make a similar segment they should be honest and present a comparable spectrums of people in those faiths and show statistical evidence to back it up.
Kangol
Albania is a Muslim-dominated country, and people there are less rabidly anti-gay than Evangelical Christians, or with the Russian Orthodox, for that matter. Visit and tell me what your verdict is. Same with Lebanon; with Jordan; with Morocco, with Turkey, and with Djibouti. There’s 6, and there are more.
HereIAm
Did you conveniently omit both Indonesia and Malaysia, both Muslim countries and both super anti-gay? To be totally fair, you have to look at the homosexuality laws of each of the Muslim countries. They can sentence you to death if they want to. Evangelicals are not much better but they will send you to the awful inhumane conversion therapy.
Coruna2018
Chrisk, and that makes the anti-LGBT actions and beliefs by non-Islamic Americans somehow saner? We can compare ourselves to Islamic-dominant nations? Check with the Southern Poverty Law Center, one of the foremost agencies tracking hate crimes and institutional discrimination to find out how much better we are than in Islamic-dominant nations. While homophobia can take homicidal actions in Islamic-dominant countries, not only do we, Americans, need to look at ourselves and our government’s behavior towards our community, take note of the very homoerotic way that many Muslim men show affection and, amongst themselves, in private, show tremendous love for each other. They have to battle what we have to battle only that their struggle is younger than ours.
MarathonBoy
Dan Villarreal has never heard of independent voters, who are not registered with either major party, but who might lean in one direction or the other depending upon which issues are most salient in a given election cycle.
BTW, being against radical Islam is a good thing.
pharaon.em.joe
Muslims did not invent algebra. It was an individual who lived in a time and geographical location of islam, who might or might not have been religious (or perhaps forced into religion). It is like saying the jewish invented the theory of relativity. No it’s Albert Einstein. The english have invented calculus. No Isaac Newton did. So STFU. Religion only invented war.
winemaker
Algebra although an arabic word was invented by the anciant Greeks, Pythagoras, Archemedes, Euclid, & Thyucedes!
gjg64
I love how he re-Tweets how “Muslims are taking over Europe”…….didn’t someone say something like that about Jews a few years back…….remind me of his name again?
crowebobby
“Gay adult film star Michael Lucas is trying to erase his Republican past.”
As if should be, but funny all the same.
batesmotel
There are actually a large amount of people that are pro-gay, but they’re also pro-Israel which is why they’ve voted Republican since Republicans share that view with them. Many of them are Jewish so it’s understadnable that it’s something that means a great deal to them. Not all Republicans are evil. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen photos surfacing of George Bush and Michelle Obama dancing and holding hands and sharing a laugh together. There are actually people out there that have opposing political views but can remain civil in each other’s company.
Greg
We know that. Unfortunately Trumpty Dumpty isn’t one of those people.
Kangol
But Republicans haven’t always been “pro-Israel,” as you say, and Barack Obama conceded far more to Israel than George H. W. Bush ever did, so really, discussions of Israel and Americans’ support for it should be historicized and contextualized. George W. Bush, for that matter, is the one behind the rise of Hamas in Gaza; he and Condoleezza Rice thought they could game the elections there and it blew up in their (and Israel’s, literally) faces. George W. Bush’s and Michelle Obama’s friendship is recent, and the result, in no small part, of the graciousness of the former First Lady, whose husband had to spend the first two years of his term cleaning up the multiple disasters, beginning with the US and global economic collapse and the disastrous war in Iraq (and the failing one in Afghanistan). As was clear at George H. W. Bush’s funeral, nearly all the major former Presidents and Vice Presidents were able to treat each other with dignity and respect, as most decent adults can do. It was only the current President who acted like a spoiled, undignified baby.
Ronbo
DId George Bush speak out about AIDS? No, like Ronald Reagan, he was silent allowing it to spread.
What about his attacks on gays calling for a “culture war” against them.
What about his “Willy Horton” racist ads?
What about him denying gay persons security clearances (jobs)?
What about his CIA wars? His VP wars? His Presidency wars?
Bush said it’s “amoral idea that gay and lesbian couples should have the same standing in law as married men and women.”
Bush was as awful as Reagan, W. and tRump. Let’s not re-write history.
Bob3007
Religion of peace ( or is it pieces after the bomb detonates) Islam is no friend of the gay community. Us gays are so hypocritical, we hate Trump and Milo and yet love the people that would line up to chop our heads off eagerly it drives me nuts
da90027
Lucas has had more renovations to his face than the Biltmore Hotel and is hard to watch him now that he is looking like a mannequin. Anymore he will look like that human Ken Doll.
just me
seriously…. who cares about his ideology or politics… his porn is hot and that’s all that matters.
brianlange
Michael help me with the foundation do not be a slug contact me
inbama
What are all these silly comments about Lucas’s penis?
His films are shot to make it look large and he acts as if it were huge, but he ain’t nowhere in the league of the Michael Brandons or Tim Krugers.
Of course he’s Republican – he’s the Donald Trump of tops.
Ashke113
He’s an arrogant asshole always has been one and always will be one.
ass eater
I thought i read, or heard on some porn blogs that Michael Lucas is bisexual now, He filmed a video of himself having bareback sex with a ftm/woman. I may be mistaken.