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After settling into a life as a writer, Loud was diagnosed with Hepatitis C and HIV, which would cost him his life in at age Lance Loud!

A Death in an American Family examines a life of quiet inspiration that speaks volumes about pop culture, sexuality, fame, and family. But that path is paved with the complexities of race, violence, and justice. What happens when they return to their families? Lance Loud wrote of the band, "Too pop for punk, too 'old school' for the New Wave, Mumps were a '70s era New York rock band, out of time Our high vaunting musical ambitions were matched with low ranking musical expertise, we had a lead singer who could sweat better than he could stay in key, and besides the fact that three of us were gay in a hetero-heavy field which only acknowledged homosexuality as being a passing marketing ploy in David Bowie's career, the only thing shared between us all was our weird combination of superiority and insecurity.

Visit www. It was shown on PBS in January They live very close to three of their four surviving children in California, with the exception of Kevin, who lives out-of-state with his family. Realizing he was dying, Loud called the Raymonds back to film again, expressing dissatisfaction with the way An American Family ended and how the family members were portrayed in it. His wish was that the Louds be portrayed as the family Loud knew them to be.

While in hospice care, he wrote his final article, "Musings on Mortality". He was 50 years old. Portions of Loud's memorial gathering in the garden of Hollywood's Chateau Marmont are included in the documentary, A Death in An American Family, including tributes by his many friends. Thomas Dekker was cast to play Loud. The film had its debut showing on HBO on April 23, In , Lance's mother authored a book about his life called "Lance Out Loud"; it was edited by Christopher Makos, a longtime friend of Lance, and published by Glitterati Incorporated.

But then came the TV cameras. Filmed in and aired on PBS in the first months of , An American Family was a episode documentary series that presented a completely unscripted portrait of an upper middle-class family of seven in Santa Barbara.

It might sound run-of-the-mill now, but nothing of the sort had ever been attempted on American television, and it was a sensation. The nation watched, rapt, as the Louds fought, loved, worked, acted ridiculous, acted completely normal and even divorced — all of this during a time when The Brady Bunch was still on first-run TV. The breakout star of the series was sassy, smart, urbane and flippant Lance Loud. On An American Family, year-old Lance Loud became the first openly gay character in the history of American series television.

Only a year later, Lance Loud presented himself, a three-dimensional persona unlike anything seen on television before. He broke the door wide open, just by being himself on An American Family. For many in the audience, especially teenagers, he was the first positive and intriguing representation of the gay experience. And then after the series, which got a spectacular amount of attention the Loud Family appeared on most of the talk shows in America and virtually every major magazine cover , Lance Loud and Kristian Hoffman formed a band and moved to New York City.

From until the end of the decade their group, the Mumps were a constant presence in one of the most fertile scenes in rock music history. We thought we were rock stars. The gay thing was, like Lance said on Dick Cavett, just one finger in ten.