QC’s Friday Five – Michael Lucas

37-year-old Michael Lucas
37-year-old Michael Lucas is the undeniable King of the Gay Porn world—his premiere in mainstream porn began in 1997 as a Falcon exclusive. In 1998, he set up Lucas Entertainment using the money he saved up from escorting. He became a full-fledged American citizen in 2004 and married his boyfriend of 8 years, Richard Winger, in 2008. His films have won an impressive number of GAYVN Awards including what’s been called the most expensive porn film ever made, the $250,000 2006 film, La Dolce Vita, which won 14 GAYVN Awards, one in every category for which is was nominated. But despite his undeniable success and influence in the gay porn world,
Lucas is not without controversy. He’s known for his sensational press releases, his outspokenness against drug-use, barebacking, and underage actors, and his vigorous pro-Israel political stance. We’ve left the political questions alone for a longer interview, but for now Lucas spoke with us about his beef with Brent Corrigan, his opinions on free porn sites, and dealing with gay Israelis in his most recent venture, Men of Israel.
QC: You’ve expressed hope that your upcoming film, Men of Israel will break new ground, both politically and pornographically. Mormon gay porn seems to have gotten some play and a lot of guys find Jewish men attractive… so why do you think there’s been such low-visibility of Jewish gay porn actors and Jewish-themed gay porn in the past?
Because as far as I am concerned Jews usually go for a higher education and graduate as lawyers, doctors, engineers, and business entrepreneurs etc. Let me be honest I rarely see academics in porn 😉
QC's Friday Five - Michael Lucas
QC: What was the most difficult part of getting Men of Israel made? Can you tell us a major difficulty you experienced making this film (or if there was none, a major difficulty from one of your other productions) and how you resolved it?
Israel is full of gay people Tel Aviv is proportionate to the population of gays in NYC. The difficulty is finding guys who actually want to have porn as their career.
QC's Friday Five - Michael Lucas
QC: With all due respect, your over-the-top press releases have gotten you labeled a bit of a press whore. You’ve even fabricated a joke letter to President Obama and made a bit of a scandal at the GayVN Awards this year. If you could mastermind the ultimate publicity stunt, what would it look like?
I speak my mind amateur I don’t pull stunts. If it is misinterpreted and the press runs with it then it is out of my hands. As far as the Obama letter—this was clearly just a light joke and I can hardly see how so many people misunderstood that. The GayVN’s Awards scandalized themselves by awarding child pornographers. I simply stood up for my industry and said what I thought necessary. By the way am I a publicity whore by giving you this interview? Or am I just doing my job promoting my product?
QC's Friday Five - Michael Lucas
QC: As a businessman, how do you feel about the rise of “free porn” sites like XTube and web-only “amateur” studios? Have they positively or negatively effected the professional porn star world?
It makes us look that much better—like we are filming Titanic compared to filming a student project. It really shows what a good product looks like and how much work goes into creating a real quality product. I think consumers are getting tired of poorly crafted amateur sex videos.
QC's Friday Five - Michael Lucas
QC: Obviously you take great care in working out, looking good, etc… but what’s the one guilty pleasure that you can’t break?
I have always had great discipline—it comes easy for me. I don’t have guilty pleasures—besides sex I am very boring to my body: no drinking, smoking, drugs, never go out in the sun, and what I like to eat is healthy.
Thanks Michael for chatting with us! If you want more of the NYC Kingpin of Porn, check out Michael Lucas’ QC Fan Club page.

Aug 29, 2009 By paperbagwriter 5 Comments