Lance Loud Quotes

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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…
• I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move.
• 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…
• Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.
• My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on.
• I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom.
• David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
• It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.
• 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.
• Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.
• One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
• Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
• I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning.
• I believed I was invincible.
• 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…
• 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…
• Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.
• 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…
• In 1970, television ate my family. The Andy Warhol prophecy of 15 minutes of fame for any and everyone blew up on our doorstep.
• The bulk of my learning - if I may call it such - has come within the past three months, after I became a part…

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