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Lance Loud
American
Actor
About the author
My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on.
Lance Loud,
American
Actor
#Life
As I was coming out of the closet, our car was hurtling over an embankment.
Lance Loud,
American
Actor
#Car
When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.
Lance Loud,
American
Actor
#Words
#Family
#World
#Friends
#Reading
#Parents
#Praise
Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.
Lance Loud,
American
Actor
#Sexuality
As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.
Lance Loud,
American
Actor
#Will
#Being
#Gay
If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings.
Lance Loud,
American
Actor
#Man
#Design
#Gay
One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
Lance Loud,
American
Actor
#Family
#Result
#American
#Gay
Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.
Lance Loud,
American
Actor
#Difficulty
#Religion
#Race
#Class
#Geography
Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
Lance Loud,
American
Actor
#Men
Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.
Lance Loud,
American
Actor
#Waiting
It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.
Lance Loud,
American
Actor
#Pleasure
#Gay
I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom.
Lance Loud,
American
Actor
#Woman
#School
I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning.
Lance Loud,
American
Actor
Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.
Lance Loud,
American
Actor
#Success
#Culture
#Positive
#Violence
#Gay
I believed I was invincible.
Lance Loud,
American
Actor
David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
Lance Loud,
American
Actor
#Style
#Expression
#Gay
I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move.
Lance Loud,
American
Actor
#Now
#Mortality
Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.
Lance Loud,
American
Actor
#Values
#Order
#Honesty
My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
Lance Loud,
American
Actor
#Freedom
#Value
#Pursuit
#Lust