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Contents:

• FROM ‘THE BATMAN’ TO ‘LU’ AND ‘BETY AND THE BEAST,’ STUDS ALREADY HAVE A MAJOR ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ PROBLEM
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• SORRY, FOLKS, PIXAR’S LU ISN’T GAY
• 'LU' DIRECTOR ADMS THEY 'TALKED ABOUT' MAKG THE LEADS GAY BUT CID TO FOC ON A 'PRE-ROMANCE' IENDSHIP
• GAY ADULT FILM STAR MIKE DOZER GETS AT LEAST 8 YEARS ADD TO HIS PRISON SENTENCE – VIDEO
• GAY PORN IMPRAR MICHAEL LUS, MARRIED

FROM ‘THE BATMAN’ TO ‘LU’ AND ‘BETY AND THE BEAST,’ STUDS ALREADY HAVE A MAJOR ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ PROBLEM

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Wh his geo brown ey and Rsian-Israeli herage, Lus is one of the most succsful and wily known gay porn actors and directors. He is also an activist, wrer, and the foundg CEO of Lus Entertament --the largt gay porn pany New York. Over the last few weeks, one of Hollywood’s biggt money-makers — The Walt Disney Company and s many related enti — has had to face backlash om angry shareholrs, employe, and fans over s actn regards to Florida’s planned “Don’t Say Gay” bill; walkouts by LGBTQ employe and alli prott of said dranian bill; and the publitn of a letter om Pixar employe that revealed that the stud already has s own “Don’t Say Gay” policy behd closed doors.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

Acrdg to an open letter om Pixar’s LGBTQ employe and alli, Disney executiv have mand cuts of “nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn” Pixar movi. In 2017, the Bill Condon-directed live-actn “Bety and the Beast” promised an “exclively gay moment, ” which sentially boiled down to Josh Gad’s character, LeFou, dancg a crowd wh Gaston (Le Evans), which prumably implied LeFou was love wh his boss.

Jt last month, Gad exprsed his regret over the entire cint, tellg The Inpennt, “My regret what happened is that beme ‘Disney’s first explicly gay moment’ and was never tend to be that. It was never tend to be a moment that we should ld ourselv for, bee ankly, I don’t thk we did jtice to what a real gay character a Disney film should be.

SORRY, FOLKS, PIXAR’S LU ISN’T GAY

Most recently, look to Pixar’s 2021 release “Lu, ” which was sentially marketed as “Call Me by Your Name” for kids, all sunny Italian clim and charmg meet-cut, but clud nothg that uld be classified as “overtly gay. While most crics picked up on the movie’s obv gay allegory, director Enri Casarosa was tough to p down, though he did adm to nsirg makg the film more overtly queer. (Last year’s “Eternals, ” which clud a gay superhero, at least hted at real forward momentum, even if remaed relatively chaste the ntext of Chloe Zhao’s film.

In his lumn Lus wrote: "The more I learn about PrEP, the more shocked I'm beg that gay men are not shoutg om the rooftops about this potential game changer the fight to prevent new HIV fectns, which we're losg badly. Tled Undrsg Israel: Gay Men the Promised Land, the film clus footage of Tel Aviv's vibrant nightlife, a same-sex weddg, and ndid terviews wh a diverse range of lol Israeli gays and lbians, cludg a gay MP, an openly gay Army traer, a drag queen, a transvte, a young Arab-Israeli journalist, and same-sex parents raisg their children and a number of artists and activists. In 2014 Lus released his send documentary, Campaign of Hate: Rsia and Gay Propaganda, which vtigat the current anti-gay climate Rsian polics and society.

2012 marked another turng pot Lus' reer—he released his first documentary film, "Undrsg Israel: Gay Men the Promise Land.

'LU' DIRECTOR ADMS THEY 'TALKED ABOUT' MAKG THE LEADS GAY BUT CID TO FOC ON A 'PRE-ROMANCE' IENDSHIP

In his but as a documentary filmmaker, adult-film entreprenr and polil lumnist Michael Lus exam a si of Israel that is too often overlooked: s thrivg gay muny. Undrsg Israel featur terviews wh a diverse range of lol men, cludg a gay member of Israel's parliament, a traer who served openly the army, a young Arab-Israeli journalist, and a pair of dads raisg their kids.

Lus also viss Tel Aviv's vibrant nightlife scene—and even attends a same-sex weddg— this guid tour of a untry that has emerged as a pneer for gay tegratn and equaly.

GAY ADULT FILM STAR MIKE DOZER GETS AT LEAST 8 YEARS ADD TO HIS PRISON SENTENCE – VIDEO

" After the 2011 Egyptian revolutn he wrote that the Mlim Brotherhood would fill a power vacuum, assertg that would be a problem for the discreet Egyptian gay muny that has lived wh relatively ltle ernment persecutn.

In Febary 2011, Lus created a ntroversy over a pro-Paltian group that planned to hold a meetg at New York's Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Communy Center. Lus protted and claimed that Israel is the only gay-iendly untry the Middle East, that the group was anti-Semic, and that LGBT people the Paltian terrori are tortured and killed. Lus wrote about the need for LGBT people to reasss nservativ Augt 2010, cg Ann Coulter as an example of a gay-iendly nservative lear.

One month later he attend the GOProud 2010 nventn, where he argued wh Coulter about the perceptn of her anti-gay jok among the Republin Party's base voters. The New Republic dubbed Lus "Gay Porn's Neon Kgp", and FrontPage Magaze ced him as "the most mastreamed, provotive, and ntroversial figure gay adult entertament today. " He ntends that his film Michael Lus' La Dolce Va is the most expensive gay porn film ever ma, wh a budget of $250, 000 and multiple celebry meos.

GAY PORN IMPRAR MICHAEL LUS, MARRIED

In 2009, Lus was ducted to the GayVN Hall of Fame, noted for "his stature as an A-list director and performer". Lus followed the film wh a gay tour of Israel.