Michael Lucas on porn and Israeli apartheid

Gay sex impresario chats with Xtra


Xtra porndoggy columnist Michael McCarthy caught up with porn producer Michael Lucas in Montreal last month. McCarthy asked Lucas about his work in the porn business and about the recent controversy surrounding New York’s LGBT Center.

Read about an anti-Lucas demonstration held in Montreal during his recent visit.

Read how Lucas was held up by Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) on a 2009 visit to Toronto.

And how Lucas’s Piss video was waylaid by CBSA.

Read about how Lucas urged the US president to pressure Canada to loosen restrictions on gay fetish porn.

And, of course, see all of our 2010 Pride Toronto coverage, including the censorship controversy, here.

Read McCarthy’s latest Porndoggy column.

See McCarthy’s chat with Lucas below.

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