Lance Loud Quotes

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

Too pop for punk, too 'old school' for the New Wave, Mumps were a '70s era New York rock band, out of time.

It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.

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

Scrawling 'I'm gay' in lipstick on your parents' bedroom mirror may demonstrate a personal signature of the highest style, but is not particularly sensitive to their feelings. Upon hearing me utter those words almost twenty years ago, my own mother did what and self-respecting middle-class mom would do: went directly into a seizure.

Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.

I believed I was invincible.

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.

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.

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.

Unlike straight men, who have the luxury of being slobs because women usually expect them to be, gay men - whether preppies, fashion victims, or jocks - are thought to be more obsessed with how they look because they dress for themselves and, consequently, for each other.

Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.

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

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

In retrospect, the most unnerving aspect of being openly gay was that it turned out to be as disappointingly normal as being straight.

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

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

For the naysayers that claimed 'American Family' revealed us to be vacant, unloving, uncaring morons of the materialistic '70s, this image will be proven wrong when Mom and Dad remarry ... Make no mistake. This is not to emphasize the sadness of my demise but rather emphasize the love of my family and friends.

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.