Lance Loud Quotes

• 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.

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• Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.

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• 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.

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• I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning.

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• 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.

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• S*xuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.

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• Proclaiming a s*xual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.

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• One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.

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• 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.

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• My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on.

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• I wore a woman’s antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom.

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• I believed I was invincible.

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• I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move.

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• David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.

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• As I was coming out of the closet, our car was hurtling over an embankment.

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• 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.

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• Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.

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• 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.

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• It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.

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Lance Loud (19)

Birth:	26th June, 1951
Death:	22nd December, 2001
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Columnist

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