Born in 1951 Alanson Russell 'Lance' Loud was an American magazine columnist and new wave rock-n-roll performer. Lance Loud was so much more than a gay icon, as witnessed here.
Lance Loud was America's first gay icon as well as an outspoken member of the famous Loud family which gave America one of its first "reality" television shows. In this title his mother Pat chronicles through her archive of Lance's photographs drawings notes and even his letters as a fourteen-year-old admirer of Andy Warhol to his progression from Santa Barbara hometown boy to New York City Warhol Underground originator.
