The bulk of my learning - if I may call it such - has come within the past three months, after I became a part of the fragile body of patients who make up an AIDS hospice. Here, surrounded by… — Lance Loud Copy Share Image
I don't know if hep C is called 'the quiet killer,' but it easily could be, so unnoticeably does it nestle into your body before crankin' up the screws and letting you race to figure out what's going on. — Lance Loud Copy Share Image
My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock… — Lance Loud Copy Share Image
In retrospect, the most unnerving aspect of being openly gay was that it turned out to be as disappointingly normal as being straight. — Lance Loud Copy Share Image
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… — Lance Loud Copy Share Image
Gay culture is in a coming-out process of its own. From out of the closets in the '60s, the culture moved onto the disco… — Lance Loud Copy Share Image
For the naysayers that claimed 'American Family' revealed us to be vacant, unloving, uncaring morons of the materialistic '70s, this image will be proven… — Lance Loud Copy Share Image
Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these… — Lance Loud Copy Share Image
Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive… — Lance Loud Copy Share Image
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… — Lance Loud Copy Share Image
David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style. — Lance Loud Copy Share Image
Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred. — Lance Loud Copy Share Image
