Gay Porn Kingpin Michael Lucas: Muslim Homophobia Becoming ‘Very Inconvenient’ for Liberals
NEW YORK, NY — Homophobia in the Muslim world is “becoming very inconvenient for liberals because liberals are apologists for Islam,” Michael Lucas, a gay pornographic film star and director, charged in a radio interview Sunday.
Lucas slammed liberals for being largely silent amid increasing reports of gay people being persecuted in the Muslim world. And he said that he has noticed a trend in which the left-wing focuses on a specific country’s leadership instead of “political Islam” when attributing blame for anti-gay policies and actions.
Lucas said he is noticing a trend in which more and more “gays are leaving their base and the party line because the party line is ‘Islam is a good thing. Islam is our friend.’”
Lucas is the founder and CEO of Lucas Entertainment, New York’s largest gay adult film company and one of the biggest gay porn production companies in the world.
He was speaking in an interview Sunday night on this reporter’s talk radio program, Aaron Klein Investigative Radio, broadcast on New York’s AM 970 The Answer and NewsTalk 990 AM.
Listen to the interview below:
Fifty-seven people were reportedly arrested by Egyptian authorities in recent days in what the news media have described as the widest crackdown on the country’s gay community.
According to Amnesty International, as well as lawyers for some of those detained, forced anal exams were carried out on some of the individuals accused of having homosexual sex. Egyptian Judicial sources cited by Reuters did not deny the anal examinations, instead defending the procedures as legal and not a form of abuse, as human rights organizations have charged.
Lucas said the liberal world has been struggling to react to the events in Egypt and other recent reports of homophobia across the larger Islamic world.
He stated:
Now that we are talking about Muslim homophobia, it is becoming very inconvenient for liberals because liberals are apologists for Islam. So it is becoming very inconvenient, and that is why they usually tie it to some specific person; specific bad leader. For example, it would be [Egyptian President Abdel Fattah] Sisi, or it would be in Chechnya the leader [Chechen President Ramzan Akhmadovich] Kadyrov, or it would be one individual that is responsible — or maybe at the most one political party, but not political Islam. So that is exactly what is happening here in this situation.
This was happening before Sisi. This is happening all over the Muslim world — all of those Muslim countries to one degree or another. For example, in Saudi Arabia, it is a daily routine, while in Egypt there are waves.
“Gay Media Censorship”
Even though Lucas is a celebrity in Western gay culture, he said that most gay publications where he regularly penned articles in the past gradually stopped publishing any of his pieces related to Islam. He charged that this “censorship,” as he labeled it, escalated as he started noticing what he described as a change in the attitude of talkbacks within the U.S gay community toward Islam.
Lucas stated: “Gays, no matter how much you brainwash them, it is very difficult in the end to say, ‘No, Islam is not an enemy of gay people.’ So as public opinion of gay people was changing, gay publications, most of them stopped publishing my articles about Islam.”
“And that is actually very interesting. I could write about anything but not about Islam because gay people should be in their own box … It is becoming dangerous that gays are leaving their base and the party line because the party line is ‘Islam is a good thing. Islam is our friend.’”
The latest crackdown in Egypt, meanwhile, began on Sept. 22 when a handful of attendees at a concert by the Lebanese alternative rock band Mashrou’ Leila raised a rainbow flag, and the incident went viral on social media. Authorities arrested at least four people for hoisting the flag at the concert.
Reuters further reported on the timeline of events following the concert:
Almost immediately, local media, dominated by state-aligned television personalities, began a campaign against homosexuals, saying they were receiving foreign funding and hosting callers who compared their threat to Islamic State.
Egypt’s media regulator then banned homosexuals from appearing in the media unless they were “repenting,” calling homosexuality a “shame and a disease that should be kept under wraps, not promoted” in order to protect public morality.
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The overwhelming majority of those arrested are not involved in the flag case, however, and have simply been arrested over their perceived sexual orientation in the following days. Police have raided homes, parties, and used online dating apps to lure gay men — a common tactic in Egypt — to arrest most of them, their lawyers say. http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2017/10/09/exclusive-gay-porn-kingpin-muslim-homophobia-becoming-inconvenient-liberals/
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I'd say liberals have a conflict of interest there that's going to be a problem for them to salve. Is it called speaking out of both sides of your mouth, or speaking with a forked tongue?
I think it's solved by the Progressive list of priorities & protected groups. Muslims are at the top of the list. They trump gays, gays trump blacks and race trumps gender and round & round we go!
Muslims have a higher Special Class Index than gays. It can't be helped.
I certainly don't. Islam is just as dumb as Christianity, they are two sides of the same coin. Both horrid religions, but being based upon Judaism they basically have to be. The only time I stand up for Muslims is when someone who is a member of another garbage religion tries to act superior. Other than that, I lump all of them together.
It seemed obvious to me.
To me too.
Really? What are you basing that on?
Did you know that Israel is considered one of the most gay-friendly countries in the world?
With a raging night life that Claire Danes described to Conan O’Brian as “ the most intense party town I’d ever been to ,” its gay-friendly atmosphere and fast-paced vibe, Tel Aviv has become one of the world’s top destinations for gay tourism, the Daily Beast recently wrote .
Tel Aviv was voted one of the best gay cities in a poll in 2011 and was chosen as one of the hottest tourist destinations by Lonely Planet that same year . CNN also ranked the city as second in the world for its pride week campaign, citing two concerts (June 3-4) by gay rights activist and singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright .
Tel Aviv itself is gay-friendly but any place where there are Haredim or other Orthodox folks is not. And the country itself is a bit schizo on LGBT rights.....their supreme court recently ruled that people can't even broadcast a PSA for marriage equality.
Plus the country doesn't even have civil marriage per se.
There are Ultra-Orthodox Haradim everywhere in Israel, but about the only place where they are more than a small minority is in the neighbourhood of Mea Sha'erim. The situation of non-civil or even non-Orthodox marriages is presently being addressed in Israel. As long as the government has to rely on Ultra-Orthodox support for the purpose of a coalition, modernization in such matters remains elusive, but it is bound to change.
It always seemed strange that Israel recognizes certain religious "marriages" and foreign marriages, but doesn't actually grant marriages like every other country in the world does. It seems totally backwards from a legal standpoint and from the country's founding philosophy.
P.S: While most Americans have probably never heard of this Lucas, he is very well known in the U,S. gay community (for his films).