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MICHAEL LUCAS’ INITIATION INTO MANHATTAN PROFILED IN NEW YORK MAGAZINE
By: Laudi Jaterka, Staff Writer - 04-13-09 - 2:00 p.m. PDT
This just came over the wire here at the JRL Compound, multi Award winner and Lucas Entertainment President and CEO Michael Lucas, is the sole gay porn prodigy profiled next to New YorkCity’s exceptional success stories in New York Magazine.The article details Lucas’ plight arriving in the city with only $150.
Lucasis in the good company of Lorne Michaels, Naomi Campbell and Diane Von Furstenburg, along with other notables recounting their struggle into Manhattan’s elite.
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“I am incredibly proud to be chosen by New York Magazine. Over my thirteenyears in business I have loved every minute of my assimilation into thebest city in the world. I am a New Yorker and am honored to be profiledas distinct achiever,” Lucas told JRL. “ I greatly appreciate the open mindedness of the city and the respect they have always given me.”
New York Magazine has been in print since 1968 and focuses weekly on the life, culture, politics, and style of New York City. “I have cultivated a great deal of knowledge from thriving in this city,” continued Lucas. “It is a great feeling to have my accomplishments be acknowledged.”
Michael Lucas is the country’s most mainstreamed adult gay model and is steadily gaining even more public recognition throughout media including frequent invites to speak at universities such as Stanford,Yale, NYU, and Rutgers to discuss his views.
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Lucas has also made appearances on Howard Stern Show, Ricki Lake Show, NY1, HBO,VH1, MSNBC, and in HBO's documentary and book "Thinking XXX,". Michael has also had headlines in TheNew York Times, Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, New YorkMagazine, GQ, The Village Voice, V Magazine, Out, The Advocate, Genre,Paper, Butt, Blue, Attitude, New York Post, NY Daily News, Heeb (as oneof the Chosen 100 of 2007), Maariv, Tel-Aviv Magazine, Time OutTel-Aviv, and, of course, countless gay and heterosexual media outlets as well as print publications.
He has appeared in mainstream features and in dozens of television appearances around the world, and on the covers of over a hundred adult and mainstream magazines.
The article in its entirety can be read here http://nymag.com/news/features/56014/index6.html
