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Michael Lucas (born Andrei Lvovich Treivas (), March 10, 1972, Moscow, Russian SFSR〔) is an Russian–Israeli-American gay pornographic film actor,〔Bunder, Leslie (August 18, 2006), ("Entertaining gay Israeli troops" ), retrieved from www.somethingjewish.co.uk on September 3, 2006.〕 director, activist,〔(Porn producer turns political activist to stop gay community center from hosting anti-Israel bash ), ''The New York Daily News'', February 28, 2011; accessed July 18, 2011〕 writer and the founder/CEO of Lucas Entertainment, New York's largest〔 gay-adult-film company. He is a columnist for ''The Advocate'',〔(Columns by Michael Lucas )〕 Huffington Post and ''Pink News''. The ''New Republic'' dubbed Lucas "Gay Porn's Neocon Kingpin",〔(Gay Porn's Neocon Kingpin ), James Kirchick, ''The New Republic'' via CBSNews.com, March 20, 2006.〕 and ''FrontPage Magazine'' cited him as "the most mainstreamed, provocative, and controversial figure in gay adult entertainment today."〔(Michael Lucas: A Gay Man For Israel ), Jamie Glazov, ''FrontPage Magazine'', May 13, 2011; accessed July 18, 2011.〕 He contends that his film ''Michael Lucas' La Dolce Vita'' is the most expensive gay porn film ever made, with a budget of $250,000 and multiple celebrity cameos.〔 In 2009, Lucas was inducted into the GayVN Hall of Fame, noted for "his stature as an A-list director and performer".〔(GAYVN Announces 2009 Hall of Fame Inductees ), Harker Jones, AVN, March 12, 2009.〕 He was included in a 2009 ''New York'' magazine feature about people who made it to the top, but arrived to the city with very little.〔(Waking Up to New York ), ''New York Magazine'', April 12, 2009.〕 Lucas is particularly well known for his activism and outspokenness.〔〔〔 His criticism of drug use and his sponsorship of public service ad campaigns about the dangers of unprotected sex in the gay community led Harvey Fierstein to interview him for ''The Advocate''.〔 His ''New York Blade'' columns on Ultra-Orthodox Judaism and Islam sparked a campus debate at Stanford University in February 2008 when Lucas was invited to give a speech to students.〔 In 2010 he debated Peter Tatchell and Sue Sanders at England's Oxford University on whether the gay rights movement has undermined family values. In 2009, Lucas released the film ''Men of Israel'', which he called his most important. Journalists from ''The Atlantic'', ''Out Magazine'' and ''Yediot Aharonot'' noted it as a landmark film as the first pornographic movie shot on location with an all-Israeli cast;〔(Great Exxxpectations ), Wayne Hoffman, Tablet Magazine, July 21, 2009.〕 while ''Tablet Magazine'' and the ''Los Angeles Times'' remarked on it being the first to feature an all-Jewish cast.〔〔(Gay-Porn Mogul Hopes to Arouse Interest in Israel ), David Graham, ''Newsweek'', September 23, 2009.〕〔(First-Ever All-Israeli Gay Porn Movie ), ''DNA'' magazine, May 9, 2009.〕 Lucas followed the film with a gay tour of Israel. New York's LGBT Center stopped allowing groups associated with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to meet in their building after Lucas led a protest over their allowance of an anti-Israel group. In 2012, he released his first documentary film about the thriving Israeli LGBT community. Titled ''Undressing Israel: Gay Men in the Promised Land'', the film includes footage of Tel Aviv's vibrant nightlife, a same-sex wedding, and candid interviews with a diverse range of local Israeli gays and lesbians, including a gay MP, an openly gay Army trainer, a drag queen, a transvestite, a young Arab-Israeli journalist, and same-sex parents raising their children and a number of artists and activists. == Background == Lucas was born in 1972 in Moscow, Russia, to Lev Bregman, an engineer, and Elena Treivas, a Russian literature teacher. He was raised in a secular Jewish family. In 1994 he obtained a degree in law from Moscow State Law Academy.〔 After graduation, Lucas briefly owned and operated a travel agency until 1995, when he left Russia for Munich, Germany, before settling in France for the next two years.〔(Michael Lucas New York's Hardcore Porn Director From Russia Eats Ass in Private ), Gert Jonkers, ''Butt Magazine''〕 In 1997, Lucas moved to New York City.〔(Model profile ) at www.lucasentertainment.com, retrieved from www.lucasentertainment.com on September 5, 2006〕〔Oswoski, Kevin (April 22, 2005), , ''Yale Daily News'', retrieved from www.yaledailynews.com on August 31, 2006.〕 On November 12, 2004, Lucas was sworn in as an American citizen.〔 In October 2008 it was announced that Lucas had married his boyfriend of eight years, Richard Winger.〔( Gay Porn Impresario Michael Lucas, Married ), Gawker.com, October 15, 2008.〕 A press release stated that the couple wanted to get married to make a statement about same-sex marriage rights.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Lucas (director)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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