Israel Newspaper Calls Gay Porn Star Michael Lucas a Patriot

A Mainstream newspaper in Israel “Maariv” has a four page article titled “Patriot” about Michael Lucas. Complete with photos, the piece has an in-depth interview conducted with Lucas while he visited the country last week. "I was thrilled to be interviewed by Maariv," Lucas said. "I've been giving more and more political interviews as of late, which makes me very happy and proud. As a porn star you have to work twice as hard in order to be taken seriously by mainstream press, so I take this article with great pride."

The article is published in Hebrew, but an English translation begins, "Michael Lucas, king of New York's gay porn movies, is a proud Zionist, slightly right-wing, denounces the gay parade in Jerusalem, is appalled by Gal Ochovsky and detests Islam. He is now visiting the homeland to realize a dream: to produce a local gay porn film that will turn Israel into the international capital of the gays.... He believes a well invested porn film aimed at the global gay community is exactly what this country needs."

This on the heels of his controversial remarks at a lecture in Stanford University where he was to speak about “safe sex and AIDS” but somehow compared the Koran to Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” and his distain for Islam and contempt for Muslim men.