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Born in 1951 Alanson Russell 'Lance' Loud was an American magazine columnist and new wave rock-n-roll performer. Loud is best known for his 1973 appearance in 'An American Family', a pioneer reality television series that featured his coming out, leading to his status as an icon in the gay community. However, Lance Loud was so much more than a gay icon, as witnessed here. Enlisting moving essays by each of his family members, along with Lance's friends and colleagues - such as Bobby Mayhem, David Keeps, Rufus Wainwright, and Cherry Vanilla, among others - Pat Loud has constructed, through a partnership with visual artist Makos, a moving portrait of a joyous and beloved individual.
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LANCE OUT LOUDPAT LOUD EDITOR CHRISTOPHER MAKOS
Lance Loud became America’s first reality TV star when, in 1973, PBS kicked off their groundbreaking documentary program, AN AMERICAN FAMILY, today considered one of the twenty most important television programs ever broadcast.
The pioneering 12-episode reality television series documents the daily life of the Loud family of Southern California over a span of two years. Oldest son Lance became the most recognized member of the family, when during the course of the series it was revealed on national television that he was gay. His sexual orientation became a topic of national controversy and media scrutiny and occasioned several appearances on the likes of the Dick Cavett Show, among others. But Lance didn’t shy away from the limelight; positive and grateful feedback from the gay community led Loud to embrace his role as reality star and gay icon with passion, flamboyance, and often, self-deprecating wit.
As the taping was underway, Loud moved to New York City and it was here, in the fulminating city of the 1970s that Lance met his lifelong friend Christopher Makos, today himself an internationally renowned photographer. It was Makos who, on seeing the 2011 reprise of the original documentary, conceived of the project that has resulted in this incredibly poignant book that is the edited collection of Lance’s mother, Pat Loud’s, extensive photographs, writings and artworks by Lance himself, along with her solicited recollections from many of Lance’s closest friends—David Keeps, Rufus Wainwright, Cherry Vanilla and even early comments by Andy Warhol—among others, creating this unique visual biography of a man, a time, a family.
Lance Loud was a joyous and beloved individual, one who came to represent the gay community, but more than that, embodied the creative spirit and genius of outsider status that became the 1980s and fueled so much of what has evolved today in our culture in terms of art, music and literature. Short as Lance’s life was (1951-2001), it is one that continues to resonate to the present day.…….
Pat Loud is the well-known and beloved mother of Lance Loud, who through her collection of his papers, artworks, and memorabilia and continuing contact with Lance’s closest circle of friends, has been able to compile this important document of one life that represents an era of American popular culture. She currently lives in Los Angeles, with her husband, Bill Loud. Christopher Makos is an internationally recognized photographer and visual artist, whose work has been widely exhibited and who conceptualized and edited this biography of his friend, Lance Loud. He is the author of more than fifteen books. He lives and works in New York City.
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LAN
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UT LO
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PAT LOUD
PAT LOU
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LANCE OUT LOUDPAT LOUD EDITOR CHRISTOPHER MAKOS
Lance Loud became America’s first reality TV star when, in 1973, PBS kicked off their groundbreaking documentary program, AN AMERICAN FAMILY, today considered one of the twenty most important television programs ever broadcast.
The pioneering 12-episode reality television series documents the daily life of the Loud family of Southern California over a span of two years. Oldest son Lance became the most recognized member of the family, when during the course of the series it was revealed on national television that he was gay. His sexual orientation became a topic of national controversy and media scrutiny and occasioned several appearances on the likes of the Dick Cavett Show, among others. But Lance didn’t shy away from the limelight; positive and grateful feedback from the gay community led Loud to embrace his role as reality star and gay icon with passion, flamboyance, and often, self-deprecating wit.
As the taping was underway, Loud moved to New York City and it was here, in the fulminating city of the 1970s that Lance met his lifelong friend Christopher Makos, today himself an internationally renowned photographer. It was Makos who, on seeing the 2011 reprise of the original documentary, conceived of the project that has resulted in this incredibly poignant book that is the edited collection of Lance’s mother, Pat Loud’s, extensive photographs, writings and artworks by Lance himself, along with her solicited recollections from many of Lance’s closest friends—David Keeps, Rufus Wainwright, Cherry Vanilla and even early comments by Andy Warhol—among others, creating this unique visual biography of a man, a time, a family.
Lance Loud was a joyous and beloved individual, one who came to represent the gay community, but more than that, embodied the creative spirit and genius of outsider status that became the 1980s and fueled so much of what has evolved today in our culture in terms of art, music and literature. Short as Lance’s life was (1951-2001), it is one that continues to resonate to the present day.…….
Pat Loud is the well-known and beloved mother of Lance Loud, who through her collection of his papers, artworks, and memorabilia and continuing contact with Lance’s closest circle of friends, has been able to compile this important document of one life that represents an era of American popular culture. She currently lives in Los Angeles, with her husband, Bill Loud. Christopher Makos is an internationally recognized photographer and visual artist, whose work has been widely exhibited and who conceptualized and edited this biography of his friend, Lance Loud. He is the author of more than fifteen books. He lives and works in New York City.
Published byGlitterati Incorporatedglitteratiincorporated.com
Printed and bound in China
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LOL CASE.indd 1 27/3/12 17:58:40
Lance Loud became America’s first reality TV star when, in 1973, PBS kicked off a spate of intensive, in-depth discussions played out in the mass media, in prestigious publications, and with the input of intellectuals, critics, and even a memorable Doonesbury strip, in their groundbreaking documentary program, AN AMERICAN FAMILY.
The pioneering 12-episode reality television series, today considered the 17th most important television show of all time, having been featured on the cover of
TIME Magazine, documents the daily life of the Loud family of Southern California over a span of two years. Oldest son Lance became the most recognized member of the family, when during the course of the series it was revealed on national television that he was gay. His sexual orientation became a topic of national controversy and media scrutiny and occasioned several appearances on Dick Cavett and other talk shows; but the overwhelmingly positive and grateful feedback from the gay community led Loud to embrace his role as reality star and gay icon with passion, flamboyance, and often, self-deprecating wit.
As the taping was underway, Loud moved to New York City. Driven by his infatuation with the Velvet Underground and everything relating to Andy Warhol, he settled in the city and wrote for important emerging magazines like Details and Interview and became a regular at Max’s Kansas City. He attended Charles Ludlam productions at La Mama, with luminaries such Holly Woodlawn. It was here, in the fulminating city of the 1970s that Lance met his lifelong friend Christopher Makos, now himself an internationally renowned photographer, of the early Warhol entourage. It was Makos who, on seeing the 2011 reprise of the original documentary, conceived of the project of collecting important photographs, writings and artworks of his friend Lance, to be found in the exhaustive archive of Lance’s mother, Pat Loud, in order to create a visual biography of a man, a time, a family.
Lance Loud was so much more than gay icon, as witnessed here. Enlisting moving essays by each of his family members along with Lance’s friends and colleagues—like Bobby Mayhem, David Keeps, Rufus Wainwright, and Cherry Vanilla, among others—Pat Loud has constructed, through a partnership with visual artist Makos, a moving portrait of a joyous and beloved individual, one who came to represent the gay community, but in addition, embodied the creative spirit and genius of outsider status that became the 1980s and fueled so much of what has evolved today in our culture in terms of art, music and literature.
In 2003, PBS broadcast the program, Lance Loud: A Death in an American Family, which was filmed in 2001 while visiting the family again, at the invitation of Lance before his death at age 50. As seen here, short as Lance’s life was, it was a monumental one that continues to resonate to the present day.
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PAt Loud is the well-known and beloved mother of Lance Loud, who through her collection of his papers, artworks, and memorabilia was able to compile and construct this important document of one life that represents an era of American popular culture. She currently lives in Los Angeles, with her husband, Bill Loud.
ChristoPher MAkos is an internationally recognized photographer and visual artist, whose work has been widely exhibited and who conceptualized this visual biography of his friend, Lance Loud. He is the author of more than fifteen books. He lives and works in New York City.
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