Michael Lucas (porn star)
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| Birthdate: | March 10, 1972 |
| Birth location: | Moscow, Russia |
| Birth name: | Andrei Treivas Bregman [1] |
| Penis size: | 10" (25.4 cm) |
| Height: | 6'2" (185 cm) |
| Weight: | 180 (81.65 kg) |
| Orientation: | Gay |
| Ethnicity: | Jewish Russian-American |
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Michael Lucas is a gay Jewish pornographic actor and the owner of Lucas Entertainment.[2] Born Andrei Treivas Bregman [3] in Moscow, Russia, on March 10, 1972, Lucas attended college in Moscow, graduating with a degree in law.[4] In 1995, Lucas moved to Germany[4] and lived in France for 2 years before moving to the United States.[5]
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[edit] Biography and career
Lucas started his career as a nude model before he began acting in films, and began his adult film career by appearing in a German heterosexual pornographic film.[5] Using the name "Michel Lucas", he worked as a Falcon Exclusive, performing as a top in five gay pornographic films released in 1997 and 1998.[6]
In 1998 he launched his own production company, Lucas Entertainment, with money he earned from working in prostitution as a hustler.[5] He based the company in New York City (rather than Los Angeles, where many of the other pornography studios are located) to enable him to feature "men representing the diverse ethnic makeup of New York".[5] Lucas likens his success in the field of prostitution to his subsequent success in filmmaking, saying, "if you’re going to sell sex, do it well. That’s the secret to a successful career as an escort (and the same reason my movies do so well.)".[7]
He filmed his first project as a director, Back in the Saddle, in 1998 as well, and also performed in the film.[8] His profile in the Adam Gay Video 1999 Directory notes that he had a "stunning scene with Seth Black in Maximum Cruise".[8] Lucas's performance in Fire Island Cruising was honored at the 2001 GayVN Awards, where he won "Best Solo Performance".[9]
In 2004 Lucas Distribution, Inc., his adult video distribution company, began operations; in 2005, LucasBlog.com was created, providing Lucas with an online media presence.
In the summer of 2005 Lucas released Michael Lucas' Dangerous Liaisons; the film featured celebrity cameos from RuPaul, Boy George, Graham Norton, Bruce Vilanch, Lady Bunny, Amanda Lepore, and Michael Musto. He continues to appear in his own films; he is in Encounters—The Point of No Return and Barcelona Nights, both released in 2006.[10]
Lucas has a reputation as an outspoken and controversial gay celebrity. A longtime opponent of drug use and advocate for safe sex, both in the porn industry and the gay community at large, he has taken out full-page public service announcements in several national publications. He was interviewed about his anti-drug campaign by Harvey Fierstein in the August 17, 2004, issue of The Advocate.[11]
On November 12, 2004, Lucas was sworn in as an American citizen.[4] That same year, he appeared in Timothy Greenfield-Sanders' book XXX: 30 Porn Star Photographs.[12] and the accompanying HBO documentary Thinking XXX.[13] The 10 films he listed as his favorites to Greenfield-Sanders are all films from his own production company.
Lucas lives in the Chelsea area of Manhattan with his boyfriend of five years, international investor and prominent Democratic party contributor Richard Winger, Bianca, his Great Pyrénées dog, and a Peruvian guinea pig.
Lucas was invited to speak at a Master's Tea at Yale University's Calhoun College in April 2005. At the Tea, organized with assistance from gaYalies,[14] he spoke to a group of about 50 students about his life history and his views on the porn industry in general.[5] In February 2006 he participated in a symposium on "Sex for Sale" sponsored by the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism.[15] His remarks, "On Gay Porn", were published in the Journal.[16]
An article published at www.somethingjewish.co.uk reporting on Lucas's August 2006 planned trip to Israel, "Entertaining gay Israeli troops",[2] was also published at wwww.ynetnews.com, where it received negative comments in the article's "Talkbacks" section.[17] His plans to visit Israel and the publicity surrounding it were also attacked, but in a follow-up article, "Lucas responds", Lucas said that the trip would not be cancelled; he went on to characterize some of the responses to the announcement of his trip to Israel as "homophobic".[18] He also responded to the criticism by creating an entry at his blog, "Dear friends and fellow Jews", in which he wrote, "I can't believe that some of us can be so intolerant, especially to gay people!"[19] Lucas himself, however, has demonstrated a lack of tolerance for others. In another entry on his blog about a trip he made to Peru, Lucas published a photo of a young boy standing next to a priest. He captioned the photo, "A reminder for parents not to forget to send their little boys to church. This can be found everywhere in Peru. You can see how this little boy is moaning for the father's holy cock." Another photo, of a painting of the crucified Jesus, is captioned, "All of these museums I visited had all of these pictures of these crucafixes.[sic] The worldwide obsession with this skinny Jewish masochist enjoying himself on the cross 'for all our sins' bores the shit out of me."[20]
In the summer of 2006, Lucas began production on Michael Lucas' La Dolce Vita, a gay pornographic remake of the Fellini classic La Dolce Vita. The film received attention due in part to releases from the New York Post, the New York Daily News, and Gawker.com.
[edit] Credits
The following represents the bulk of Lucas's work; it is an incomplete list.[10]
[edit] Film:
[edit] Cast (as Michel Lucas)
(All films by Falcon Studios, John Rutherford, director)
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[edit] Cast (as Michael Lucas)
(Director as well; all films by Lucas Entertainment)
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[edit] Director (additional films)
(All films by Lucas Entertainment)
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[edit] Screenwriter
(Cast and director as well; all films by Lucas Entertainment)
- Hunt & Plunge, 2000–2003
- Michael Lucas' Vengeance, 2001
[edit] Producer
{All films by Lucas Entertainment}
- Encounters: The Heat of the Moment, 2006
- Encounters 3: Flash Point, 2006
- More Dangerous: The Making of Michael Lucas' Dangerous Liaisons, 2005–2006
[edit] Live event:
- Directors Summit, 2003, 9th Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Fest, Bruce Cam, Joe Gage, Chi Chi LaRue, Michael Lucas, John Rutherford, and Steven Scarborough, participating directors
[edit] Model
- XXX 30 Porn-Star Portraits, Greenfield-Sanders, Timothy, photographer, 2005, Bulfinch Press , New York, NY
- Adam Gay Video 2005 Directory, Lawrence, Doug, Editor-in-Chief, 2004, Knight Publishing Corp., Los Angeles, CA
[edit] References
- ^ http://nymag.com/movies/features/23146/index1.html
- ^ a b Bunder, Leslie (August 18, 2006), "Entertaining gay Israeli troops", retrieved from www.somethingjewish.co.uk on September 3, 2006.
- ^ http://nymag.com/movies/features/23146/index1.html
- ^ a b c Model profile at www.lucasentertainment.com, retrieved from www.lucasentertainment.com on September 5, 2006
- ^ a b c d e Oswoski, Kevin (April 22, 2005), "Adult film producer fleshes out his 'fantasy' at tea", Yale Daily News, retrieved from www.yaledailynews.com on August 31, 2006.
- ^ List of videos at the Falcon Studio online store with Michel Lucas in the cast. Adult images. Retrieved from www.falconstudios.com on September 3, 2006
- ^ "Prostitution", "Lucas Blog", retrieved from http://www.lucasblog.com on September 6, 2006.
- ^ a b Lawrence, Doug, Editor (1998). Adam Gay Video 1999 Directory. Los Angeles, California: Knight Publishing Corp..
- ^ GayVN Awards
- ^ a b List of credits at the tlavideo online video store, retrieved from www.tlavideo.comon September 3, 2006
- ^ "The actor and the porn star", Advocate.com © Planet Out Inc., August 17, 2004. Retrieved on 2006-09-03. (in English)
- ^ Greenfield-Sanders, Timothy, Photographer, Introduction: Vidal, Gore; Essays: Friday, Nancy, Hartley, Nina, Homes, A.M., Johnson, Richard, Finely, Karen, Koestenbaum, Wayne, Malkovich, John, Reed, Lou, Rushdie|, Salman, Strieber, Whitley, Waters, John, Wattleton, Faye (2005). XXX 30 Porn-Star Portraits. New York, New York: Bulfinch Press. ISBN 0821277545.
- ^ Greenfield-Sanders, Timothy, Director. (2004). Thinking XXX [TV Documentary]. HBO.
- ^ GAYalies—"a discussion and social group for gay, bisexual and questioning men"
- ^ Yale Journal of Law and Feminism,"Sex for Sale", February 4, 2006
- ^ Lucas, Michael (Spring 2006). "On Gay Porn". Yale Journal of Law and Feminism Vol. 18 (p. 299).
- ^ Bunder, Leslie (August 19, 2006), "Entertaining gay Israeli troops": "Talkbacks", retrieved from www.ynetnews.com on September 5, 2006.
- ^ Bunder, Leslie (August 24, 2006), "Lucas responds", retrieved from www.somethingjewish.co.uk on September 3, 2006.
- ^ Lucas, Michael (August 23, 2006), "Dear friends and fellow Jews", retrieved from www.lucasblog.com on September 5, 2006
- ^ Lucas, Michael (June 2, 2006), " My Trip to Peru...", retrieved from www.lucasblog.com on September 5, 2006
[edit] See also
- List of gay porn stars
- List of pornographic movie studios
- GayVN Awards
- Adult Erotic Gay Video Awards
