Lance Loud Quotes
"As I was coming out of the closet, our car was hurtling over an embankment."
- Lance Loud
(Related: 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
(Related: Family, Friends, Parents, Praise, Reading, Words, World)
"Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred."
- Lance Loud
(Related: 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
(Related: Being, Gay, Will)
"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
(Related: Design, Gay, Man)
"One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model."
- Lance Loud
(Related: Family, American, Gay, Result)
"Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography."
- Lance Loud
(Related: Religion, Class, Difficulty, Geography, Race)
"Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with."
- Lance Loud
(Related: Men)
"Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen."
- Lance Loud
(Related: Waiting)
"It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore."
- Lance Loud
(Related: Gay, Pleasure)
"I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom."
- Lance Loud
(Related: School, Woman)
"I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning."
- Lance Loud
"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
(Related: Success, Positive, Culture, Gay, Violence)
"I believed I was invincible."
- Lance Loud
"David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style."
- Lance Loud
(Related: Expression, Gay, Style)
"I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move."
- Lance Loud
(Related: Mortality, Now)
"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
(Related: Honesty, Values, Order)
"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
(Related: Freedom, Lust, Pursuit, Value)