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Come meet your favorite Men of Lucas Entertainment, including Ben Andrews, Jonathan Vargas, Spencer Quest, Christian Cruz, Tommy Deluca, and a special appearance by JOHNNY HANSON of "Michael Lucas' The Bigger The Better"!

Also appearing/performing: GAYVN-winning music group NEKKED, whose new album "A Barrier of Skin" is available now at LucasEntertainment.com!

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NY Blade column: Hillary’s Moments

We must demand clear statements from candidates about LGBT civil rights

By MICHAEL LUCAS
Friday, June 22, 2007
http://nyblade.com/2007/6-22/viewpoint/opinion/lucas.cfm

In the Democratic presidential field, our community’s pet candidate is Hillary. The junior senator from New York schmoozes our donors and rakes in our money. In the first quarter, Hillary got 53 percent of individual contributions to the top three democratic candidates in heavily gay Los Angeles zip codes. Obama got 34 percent and Edwards 13 percent. That’s according to Frontier’s magazine. Donor patterns in gay zip codes across the country are broadly similar.

She’s our girl. But what are we to her?

When she talks to gay donors, she tells us what we want to hear. A month ago, she gave the keynote speech at the Human Rights Campaign’s annual dinner. (Note: The Human Rights Campaign is the country’s wealthiest and most prestigious if not necessarily most effective LGBT political lobbying organization, beloved by gay men in the heartland—a major source of Clinton campaign money.) Clinton said she opposes the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy her husband had instituted. “This policy doesn’t just hurt gays and lesbians, it hurts all our troops, and this to me is a matter of national a and we’re going to fix it,” Clinton said to rousing applause from the wealthy attendees.

Brave words, speaking to the ghetto. But who heard them, except her gay donor pool? Exactly nobody. The speech was not announced and remains unpublished, though a video was posted on the group’s web site.

When Clinton talks outside the gay ghetto, she sounds quite different. When General Peter Pace, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the nation’s highest military officer, called homosexuality “immoral,” Clinton was asked if she agreed. “Well, I am going to leave that to others to conclude,” was her pathetic response. She then said she wants to “make sure” that gays ands lesbians “can” serve in the military—which means exactly nothing, because gays and lesbians already can serve in the military … as long as they keep their private life in the closet.

THAT’S NOT THE FIRST time Clinton’s support for our community has remained safely inside the ghetto. During her first Senate Campaign, in 1999, she said at a $100,000 gay fundraiser in SoHo that Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was a failure and that, if elected, she would work to overturn the policy. Now she’s been in the senate for over six years and what has she done? Nothing.

There is no doubt in my mind that Sen. Clinton likes gays and lesbians. Inside the ghetto, her attention can be touching. One longtime Democratic fundraiser told me about Hillary’s warm words to his new boyfriend. A leading lesbian Democratic activist told me about the long letter she received from the Senator upon the birth of their baby girl, directed to their baby girl. Her speeches at LGBT fundraisers are sincere and promising … inside the ghetto.

Why is she so bland when she speaks to the larger America? Of course, it’s tempting to blame her, to talk about hypocrisy.

But I blame mostly us. We are the ones who fail to ask “our” candidates to take publicly clear stands on our issues. We are the ones who write checks and give our votes without attaching clear demands. Look at the Jewish community. No candidate will get a cent of Jewish money who does not clearly articulate his or her support for the security of Israel. We must take a lesson from their book. We need to demand from our candidates an equally clear and unequivocal statement about the security of our lives and the advancement of our rights.

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June 20, 2007

Cruising Budapest 2: Ben Andrews, Evan Rochelle & Mario McGabe

Piss fanatics will be happy to learn that monster-cocked Lucas exclusive Ben Andrews (below) performs his first ever watersports scene in "Cruising Budapest 2: Ben Andrews". He also has a threesome with fellow big-dicked hottie Evan Rochelle (below left) and smooth stud Mario McGabe (below right) in the film.

Yes, size queens will have an amazing time with this movie too! See the preview pics below....

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June 18, 2007

NY Blade column: Speak Out Against Bush’s Pick for Surgeon General

Let Senate know James Holsinger is not a well man

http://www.newyorkblade.com/2007/6-15/viewpoint/opinion/lucas.cfm

By MICHAEL LUCAS
Friday, June 15, 2007

I want to emphasize what we LGBTers can do to protect ourselves from the monumental stupidity of George W. Bush. As if we needed more evidence of just how idiotic he is, this past week in speaking about the “no confidence” vote in the Senate over his thug in the Justice Department, Alberto Gonzalez, Bush said: ”This process has been drug out a long time.”

There’s only so much you can expect from a full-grown adult who, despite being president of the U.S.A., doesn’t know the correct past participle of the verb “to drag.” And it figures that a heterosexual reactionary who knows nothing about drag couldn’t care less about the well being of gay people.

Back on May 24, 2007, Bush nominated James Holsinger as surgeon general. The surgeon general is the U.S. government’s top spokesperson on public health matters. The person in the post can influence public perceptions and government policies related to health issues of specific concern to gays. So it matters a lot that Holsinger has a virulently anti-gay history. Holsinger’s nomination must be rejected, and we have to be part of what motivates the Senate to reject him. Here’s why:

Holsinger founded Hope Springs Church in a warehouse near Lexington, Kentucky. That church runs an ‘ex-gay’ ministry. Enough said about that.

In 1991, Holsinger was on a United Methodist Church panel that attempted to spell out the church’s position on homosexuality. The allegedly medical paper Holsinger wrote for that panel to consider was titled “Pathophysiology of Male Homosexuality.” In it, he actually wrote that because heterosexual sex is so common and pervasive, plumbers even refer to pipe fittings as a male and female (as in, on object fits inside the other). It follows, he argued, that homosexuality in humans leads to “injuries and disease.” As if heterosexuals were not as vulnerable to STDs as gay people.

Some people on the church panel wanted to modernize the church’s stance towards gay people. When Holsinger learned that was so, he resigned from the panel. J. Philip Wogaman, who was on that panel, has said: “Holsinger opposed any recognition of homosexuality as normal. He took the view that it’s pathological, that homosexuality is both a sin and a kind of mental sickness. He was quite vocal about it.”

Not convinced about Holsinger’s unsuitability to the post of Surgeon General yet? In 1998, he was on the board of a Methodist group that criticized the “radical homosexual/lesbian lobby” for trying to force the church “to grant approval to the practice of homosexuality.”

PLENTY OF QUALIFIED medical professionals in this country have no record of bigotry of any kind. That is the sort of person that would deserve the privilege and responsibility of serving as surgeon general. Speaking of medical qualifications, by the way, in 1991, when Holsinger was running the Veterans Health Administration, under pressure he acknowledged that shoddy treatment had caused the deaths of six patients in its hospital in North Chicago.

Sen. Hillary Clinton has announced her opposition to Holsinger’s nomination. Barack Obama has only voiced “serious reservations” about it. This is where you and I come in. All senators have a “Contact Me” page on their web sites. The 21 senators to contact now are those on the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), which will be the first committee to consider Holsinger’s nomination. You can find the list of the 21 members of the committee by visiting its official web site at http://help.senate.gov/.

Write one message against Holsinger’s confirmation, and e-mail it to all 21 members of that committee. The entire process shouldn’t take you more than a half hour. Your message could be as simple as “I am unconditionally opposed to the confirmation of James Holsinger as surgeon general. He is an anti-gay bigot. We should instead have a modern and open-minded medical professional in this important post.”

The world really works this way, in case you weren’t aware. Many bills before the Senate get passed or defeated because of the communications about them to senators from voters. You can put on some of your favorite music and while enjoying it, e-mail these 21 senators about your opposition to James Holsinger.

It truly is a drag that we are, apparently, stuck with George W. Bush as president until January 20, 2009. That doesn’t mean, however, that the gay community has to hang a “Kick Us” sign around its collective neck until that day. Show Bush that you understand what a democracy is; make your voice heard on this one.

If you have family members and friends who believe matters of public health policy should be decided according to medical science only, and not on religion-based bigotry, have them e-mail Senators expressing that view. It isn’t simply that you can make a difference; it’s that you must.

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June 15, 2007

Cruising Budapest 2: George Vidanov & Claudio Antonelli

I also know there are some big George Vidanov (below left) fans out there. Well, he's in "Cruising Budapest 2: Ben Andrews" too, in a flip-floppingly good fuckfest with Claudio Antonelli (below right).

Cum sure flies when you're having fun, and when these two get at plowing each other's butts, there certainly is lots of fun flying around. Sneak a peek:

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June 14, 2007

Cruising Budapest 2: Ted Colunga & Rick Bauer

I know there are some big Ted Colunga fans out there. You will be happy to know that I cast him (below left) in "Cruising Budapest 2: Ben Andrews" with the always hard and ready Rick Bauer (below right).

The two are the definition of versatile, flip-flop fucking and 69-ing like there's no tomorrow in their scene. Of course, Ted's giant purple-headed monster of a cock gets plenty of action.

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AP Story: Iran moves to execute porn stars

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's parliament on Wednesday voted in favor of a bill that could lead to death penalty for persons convicted of working in the production of pornographic movies.

With a 148-5 vote in favor and four abstentions, lawmakers present at the Wednesday session of the 290-seat parliament approved that "producers of pornographic works and main elements in their production are considered corruptors of the world and could be sentenced to punishment as corruptors of the world."

The term, "corruptor of the world" is taken from the Quran, the Muslims' holy book, and ranks among the highest on the scale of an individual's criminal offenses. Under Iran's Islamic Penal Code, it carries a death penalty.

The "main elements" refered to in the draft include producers, directors, cameramen and actors involved in making a pornographic video.

The bill also envisages convictions ranging from one year imprisonment to a death sentence for the main distributors of the movies and also producers of Web sites in which the pornographic works would appear.

Besides videos, the bill covers all electronic visual material, such as DVD and CDs. Other material, such as porn magazines and books are already banned under Iranian law.

To become law, the bill requires an approval by the Guardian Council, a constitutional watchdog in Iran.

It is widely believed that the drafting of the bill came about as a reaction to a scandal last year, when a private videotape, apparently belonging to Iranian actress Zahra Amir Ebrahimi and allegedly showing her having intercourse with a man, became available across Iran.

The videotape was leaked to the Internet and released on a black market DVD, becoming a full-blown Iranian sex tape scandal. Ebrahimi later came under an official investigation, which is still ongoing. She faces fines, whip lashing or worse for her violation of Iran's morality laws.

The unnamed man on the tape, who is suspected of releasing it, reportedly fled to Armenia but was subsequently returned to Iran and charged with breach of public morality laws. He remains in jail.

In an exclusive interview with the British newspaper The Guardian early this year, Ebrahimi denied she was the woman in the film and dismissed it as a fake, made by a vengeful former fiance bent on destroying her career.

In recent years, private videotapes have increasingly been leaked to the public in Iran, riling the government and many in this conservative Islamic country, where open talk of sex is banned and considered taboo.

However, porn material is easily accessible through foreign satellite television channels in Iran. Bootleg video tapes and CDs are also available on the black market on many street corners.

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June 12, 2007

Nauseous Clay: Number 1 Chump

Normally, my main complaint against Vanity Fair magazine is that they stuff every issue full of loose subscription cards that wind up all over the floor. Don’t the affluent editors realize that the hired help is going to have to pick up that mess? Don’t they care about the hired help? Don’t we all know the answer to that question?

Now, though,I see they have stooped to putting Muhammad Ali on the cover together with presidential hopeful Barack Obama. I think this is an Obamanation, and I’ll tell you why.

First off; boxing. It’s barbaric. Victory is gained when the opponent is either 1) too severely hurt to continue (called a “technical knock out”) or 2) knocked down and unable to get up before the ref counts to ten. You mean to tell me two guys can’t think of anything more pleasurable than that to do with their fists?

Actually, I would not be surprised if the majority of boxers are repressed gay or bisexual men taking out their frustrations in a way that, alas, some societies still find acceptable. Norway and Iceland, to their credit, do not.

Way back in 1983, the American Medical Association called for a ban on boxing. It did so because of connections between boxing injuries and permanent brain damage. Repeat the phrase in your mind, just in case it didn’t get through the first time: PERMANENT BRAIN DAMAGE. The American Neurological Association, American Academy of Neurology and the British, Canadian and Australian Medical Associations... none of whose members are permanently brain-damaged boxers... have also wanted to abolish the sport for medical reasons.

Is Muhammad Ali, who I think at birth was named Nauseous Clay, permanently brain damaged as a result of boxing? Let’s put it this way: His diagnosis is Pugilistic Parkinson’s Syndrome. The Pugilistic part of that means he got it from boxing.

Was permanent brain damage the reason why Nauseous Clay joined the Nation of Islam and later became a Sunni? I ask that, while admitting that it’s easy to understand why people so uncritically hail him as a great sports hero. Promoting interracial love and harmony, he once said: “No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white girls coming to their homes to marry their black sons and daughters.” His first marriage ended because his wife didn’t want to conform to a Muslim dress code for women. When explaining why he refused to be drafted for the Vietnam War, Nauseous Clay said: “We are not supposed to take part in no wars unless declared by Allah or The Messenger.” He also said he would give his life for Allah but not even a toe to his very own mother, who was Christian. World renowned journalist Oriana Fallaci famously threw her dictaphone at him and walked out of their interview after he belched in her face. ("I found him unbearable," she later recalled. "He had a fascist arrogance.")

I’m taking Nauseous Clay at his word, and assuming that if he believed a war had been declared by Allah or The Messenger, he would support it. That’s why I think it’s an Obamanation that Barack Obama appeared with Nauseous on the cover of Vanity Fair. If you can excuse me now, thinking about this has made me have to go puke. Just my luck, there’ll be a copy of Vanity Fair next to the toilet when I get there to hurl.

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NY Blade letter: My Overlooked Message: U.S. LGBTers Must Pay Attention to Strife Between Gays, Muslims in Europe

I wrote letter to the editors of the NY Blade regarding the story "Fanning flames of fear, hatred against Muslims" that ran last week. They ran an edited version in the paper this week which you can read here. Below is my letter unedited and in full:

To the Editors:

I am concerned about Human Rights issues no matter where human rights are being violated. Naturally, I am especially interested in being a catalyst for change where LGBT people are denied their rights.

That is why I feel compelled to rebut Faisal Alam, who regrettably misunderstood an opinion piece I wrote regarding the impact of Islam on gay rights. That he attacked me personally for the piece I wrote is all the more ironic that I was talking about protecting the liberties of a gay person such as himself.

Mr. Alam fired a salvo at me which shows that despite his involvement with a LGBT Muslim group, he remains to some extent the victim of an anti-sex religious brainwashing, or at least, willing to promote that brainwashed point of view to bolster an argument that puts the interests of religious Muslims above the human rights of gay people worldwide. He said: “Michael Lucas, infamous for his porn empire, has suddenly become an expert on Islam and its view of homosexuality.” The prejudice against erotic entertainment stems mainly from religious sources, so why is Mr. Alam saying I’m infamous, rather than famous, for my business? Furthermore, does he believe that I built my business and expanded my artistic vision without having a keen intellect? Does he think that the keen intellect I exercise in running my business is not capacious enough to also study and understand, in-depth, Islam and its view of homosexuality?

I don’t at all mind giving you an idea of my education in Islam and gay rights. I have read the Koran and the Hadith, and I am troubled by many things in those texts. The Hadith calling for people engaging in gay sex to be killed, for example, is problematic. I have traveled in many Muslim countries, without particular pleasure, and observed the conditions for GLBT people there. I have read extensively on the topic of Islam and human rights. One enlightening book I can recommend is Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. It is relevant to note that though Ms. Ali now resides in the US, she does so under perpetual security guard, as Muslims, some of them American, have called for her to be killed because of her critiques of their religion. Were the threats against her idle, she wouldn’t be using those security guards. I also want known that one of my personal heros and role models is the Arab woman Wafa Sultan, who also lives in the US with special security due to Islamic threats against her.

Mr. Alam claims that in my world, all Muslims are “fag-hating bigots.” Yet in the very article that provoked that reaction, I acknowledged that Muslim congressman Keith Ellison is on record as supporting equal rights for GLBTers. I am the first one to acknowledge when Muslims work for progressive change. Mr. Alam could do me the courtesy of not writing about me as though I were not.

Lebanon, Turkey, Malaysia and Indonesia were all cited by Mr. Alam as “hubs” of gay organizing. Yet, in an article on gay rights in Turkey that appeared in the International Herald Tribune on February 5, 2006, Kursad Kahramanoglu is quoted as saying that even those Turkish intellectuals, writers and artists who have come out “remain completely silent, giving in to the official state line that limits discussion of human rights violations in Turkey to the issues of the Kurdish community or freedom of expression.” It’s good that there are some gay bars in Istanbul but I am concerned with gay rights according to a profounder, more comprehensive standard. (FOR REFERENCE PURPOSES, THAT ARTICLE MAY BE FOUND HERE: http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/05/news/gays.php)

It often happens that Muslim LGBT groups will talk about “justice” as it relates to the conflict in Israel and Palestine, but not say one word about the plight of gay people among the Palestinian Arabs. Mr. Alam’s site www.al-fatiha.org indeed makes that call for “justice” in the matter of Israel, yet says nothing about the anti-gay “honor” killings that are a regular part of life among the Palestinian Arabs. Mr. Alam, to judge by what he wrote, considers those anti-gay murders a trivial detail when compared to what he alleges to be an advanced gay rights situation in Turkey. I have actually heard gay Muslims in the US say that because the Palestinians voted Hamas into power, Hamas should be supported by the outside world. Yet the Hamas charter calls for Israel to be replaced by an Islamic theocracy under Sharia law, with the Hadith consulted as legitimate sources in the legal system. As a reminder, the Hadith call for gay people to be killed. Therefore, obviously, anybody who expresses support for Hamas is automatically saying they support the elimination of the one genuine safe haven for LGBTers in the Middle East.

The only conference of lesbian Arab women ever held in the Middle East took place in Haifa, Israel, on March 28, 2007. It took place under heavy security supplied by the local Israeli government and was protested by Islamic groups within Israel. The Arab Knesset Member Abbas Zakour physically took part in one of those protests, and said: "The activity of these women diminishes the value of the human being and their actions are not accepted in the Muslim and Palestinian world." Another Arab Knesset member, Sheik Ibrahim Sasur, said this about the conference: “We oppose their intent to bring this issue to the open air.”

A complete rebuttal to Mr. Alam would require more space than I have here. But I’ll say that he used the results of a recent Pew survey of American Muslims to claim that American Muslims are the most mainstream of Americans. Yet that survey found that 26% of young American Muslims can find a justification for suicide bombings. That means there are hundreds of thousands in the US taking that position. I’m calling attention to that verifiable menace within our borders exactly because Mr. Alam and his co-religionists are not, even though they should be in the lead of solving the problems within their own community. 26% of the young in the American Muslim community find justification for suicide bombings, but Mr. Alam does not even admit that the problem exists. It’s also significant here to note that in Jordan, no Jew may be a citizen or purchase property. Yet those two anti-gay protestors I quote above are Arab members of the Israeli Knesset. I do not know whether Mr. Alam’s conception of justice in the Middle East includes a demand for Jews to be able to live normally in Jordan. But I am issuing a challenge to him to have made clearer, on the www.al-fatiha.org web site, and elsewhere, a commitment to gay rights in the Middle East, and to countering pernicious tendencies in the American Muslim community. For instance, I am, alas, accustomed to mainstream publications not saying much about murderous anti-gay fanaticism among the Palestinians. But that a GLBT Muslim website in the US would not mention it at all, while calling for “justice” between Israel and Palestine, is a circumstance screaming out for improvement. If nobody among Muslim Americans is even mentioning the issue, who will speak up for the human rights of those Palestinian gay people? I, born to a Jewish family, am doing it right here, right now. To which cause does Mr. Alam have a stronger allegiance; Islam, or GLBT rights?

Michael Lucas
New York City

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June 11, 2007

Cruising Budapest 2: Ben Andrews & Ludovic Canot

The star of "Cruising Budapest 2: Ben Andrews" is, of course, Ben Andrews. Fans of my monster-dicked exclusive (who is on the cover of HX this week!) will love this movie because it features Ben doing things he's never done before, like piss all over a guy.

His beautiful scene with newcomer Ludovic Canot is a highlight of the film. Ben loves ass... fucking it, licking it, fingering it... And he sure loves Ludovic's ass in this one!

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June 08, 2007

NY Blade column: Why I Never Went Back

http://nyblade.com/2007/6-8/viewpoint/opinion/lucasfiles.cfm

By MICHAEL LUCAS
June 8, 2007

I am disgusted yet hardly surprised by recent developments in Russia, the putrid country of my birth. For the past two years, attempts by gay people in Russia to hold Pride rallies in Moscow have not only been squelched, but also met by shocking public expressions of bigotry along with calls for anti-gay violence by elected officials and religious leaders.

In May of both 2006 and 2007, concerned political figures from European Union countries traveled to Moscow to show human rights solidarity with the gay organizers there. Their pleas for tolerance were met with barbaric contempt.

In 2006, the Mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, banned a Pride event being planned by gay leader Nikolai Alekseyev. In response to the ban, gay activists thought to honor the country’s war against the Nazis by laying wreaths at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. They had planned to then hold a protest near City Hall against Mayor Luzhkov’s ban of their Pride event. When they got to the tomb, they found it blocked by police. Additionally, a vomitous crowd of Russian Orthodox, skinheads and Cossacks awaited them. As they tried to lay flowers by the fence, they were violently attacked. Some made their way to the site of the planned City Hall demonstration, and again were attacked.

The German parliamentarian Volker Beck, who had come in a show of support for enlightenment, was struck by a rock and then punched in the face by a young neo-Nazi. How is that for irony? The Russians in WWII fought off the least humane society ever, one that severely persecuted gay people, only to become infinitely less tolerant than today’s Germany. The Russian who hit Beck was later quoted in The Moscow Times as saying he attacked violently because he was “a normal Russian guy.”

He said it, I didn’t. But let me tell you, “normal” Russians have a mentality that is the absolute pits. They are incredibly cruel and intolerant. Trust me, I lived the nightmare, I know what I am talking about. I left Russia because I understood what I would be in for if I stayed there. One of the reasons I brought my whole family here was that I did not want to have to set foot in that rotten country in order to see them.

THE REACTIONS IN RUSSIA TO A planned Pride event last month was, if anything, even worse than in 2006. That was the case despite expressions of support for Pride from heterosexual and homosexual elected officials all over Western Europe. Mind you, we are not talking about a Fifth Avenue parade. We are just talking about a few hundred gay people wanting to erode the monstrous prejudice against them by showing they exist. Yet Mayor Luzhkov calls such a demonstration “satanic.” His police do not protect gay people, and the religious leaders in his society might as well be foaming at the mouth. By the way, if you think the Russian people have acknowledged that gays were among the soldiers who fought on their side in WWII, forget about it.

A shared hatred of gay people has united the Christian Russians with the Muslim Russians. Moscow carpet-bombed the Chechen Republic because of those two groups’ usual enmities, but when a few hundred gay Russians wanted to show they exist, the Christians and the Muslims couldn’t find enough ways to express their agreement.

I regret having to report to you that the top Muslim leader in Russia, the Mufti Talgat Tajuddin, has made statements that ought to have landed him in an asylum for the criminally insane. For instance, he claimed that “if gays come out onto the streets, they should be bashed.”

I maintain that all religious texts containing anti-gay bigotry should be modified.

You could ask why so powerful, omnipresent a guy as God needs human policemen to take care of those who have supposedly committed a crime against him. The Mufti also said that the Russian Orthodox Church would join in anti-gay protests. Several news agencies attempted to interview the church about his statements, but the church had no comment. Chief Rabbi Berl Lazar got in on the act, too, saying that “sexual perversions have no right to exist.” He did not, however, call for anti-gay violence. While both these men are to be denounced, I imagine the importance of the distinction between them would be apparent to a gay person getting beaten bloody on the Mufti’s orders.

ALL OF THIS WAS HARDLY covered by mainstream American media. This is the face of homophobia. Bush recently chided Putin for backpedaling on democratic reforms, but of course expressed no outrage over Russian violations of gay people’s human rights. Let a single Christian convert in Afghanistan be sentenced to death for apostasy, and Bush mounts an aggressive international campaign to protect that person. On gay rights, he is silent.

I’ve been thinking about pressure that could be put on Russia to grant gays their rights—sanctions, travel limitations on the Russians who come here to buy their Gucci, et cetera. Yet I also think we American gays should be more demanding of presidential candidates if they want our support. Asking Sen. Hillary Clinton to speak up for oppressed gays internationally, for example, would not be too much to request. I’m not holding my breath.

Still, we will have our Pride March down Fifth Avenue the last Sunday of June. Despite Gen. Peter Pace and his comment about “immoral” homosexuality, and despite President Bush, the United States is a far, far better place for a gay person than Russia. That’s why I’m here, and that’s why when the subject of going to Russia arises, I say nyet.

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June 07, 2007

Cruising Budapest 2 - Ben Andrews: Michael Lucas & Marcel

If you enjoyed all the hot guys and kinky sex in "Cruising Budapest 1: Michael Lucas", I guarantee you will love "Cruising Budapest 2: Ben Andrews". What I can get guys to do over there when it comes to watersports and buttplay (including Ben himself) is a dream...

Just take my scene with German newcomer Marcel. I'd wanted to work with Marcel ever since he sent in a casting application to my company not long ago. When putting together the cast for this film, I knew I had to fly him out to Budapest from Germany and fuck his brains out. And fuck his brains out, I did.

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June 05, 2007

HX column: A Change Will Do You Good

I had a problem with Buck Angel. I admit it. A “human tragedy” is what I called him back in 2005. An “ugly, bald, chubby man.” How could any self-respecting gay man possibly get turned on by this female-to-male transsexual porn star? By this vagina?

It took a simple conversation to change my mind. Buck himself dropped by my office a couple weeks ago, HBO documentary crew in tow, to sit down and talk to me about his life. He told me that there’s a community of FTM men, like himself, who haven’t completed their transitions and still have their vaginas intact. Surrogate penises nowadays, apparently, are just too ugly, dysfunctional and expensive to have—surgery can cost up to $100,000.

I asked Buck how many men he meets in bars brush him off after he tells them that he still has a vagina. Buck said that he knows his market better than that and the kinds of people he should approach, so that situation rarely happens. What is your market? I asked. The extreme crowd who is into kink, he said. There is an entire community of kink lovers—including many who identify as gay men—who are way into un-transitioned FTM men.

Sexuality, it turns out, is more fluid than I thought it was. My own sexuality happens not to be—dick, balls and ass forever! Well a little more than that if you’ve ever watched my films. But for some people, it can truly be fluid. I wasn’t aware that there is an entire community of guys like Buck and guys who like guys like Buck.

My company is now the official gay distributor of “Buckback Mountain,” the first movie from Buck Angel Entertainment. Shameless plug, I know. But guess what? The movie sells and the guys buying it tend to be the customers who buy the director’s cut versions of my films—those that feature watersports and fisting scenes that retail stores shy away from. My customers, who I used to think were only into only cock, are dabbling in pussy!

I thought I knew everything there was to know about male sexuality. But I didn’t. I was confused before, yes, but now I feel I understand it. Like Buck, I’m a changed man.

XXX
-Michael Lucas
HX Issue 822
June 8, 2007

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