Friday, August 21, 2009

WEEKEND BRAIN TEASER!


This is a THREE part quiz. They were the FIRST to do what nearly everybody today is doing. Who are they and what did they do, and when did they do it?
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5 comments:

  1. JamesAugust 21, 2009 at 1:23 PM

    Before Jon and Kate, PBS ran a documentary on a typical American Family, the Louds. Taped in 1971 and shown in 1973, mother Pat asks father Bill for a divorce. Son Lance Loud came out as gay and wore lipstick and at times women's clothes. Lance went on to fame as a columnist for several magazines including The Advocate. He passed away in 2001 of AIDS and hep C.

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  2. SID DELUCAAugust 21, 2009 at 11:46 PM

    That James, our resident smarty pantalones, is once again right on the money! I think Lance Loud was the first "real" gay person I had ever seen on TV, and perhaps on earth, at that time. So imagine, many years later, as a freelance writer for The Advocate, getting a ride home on the back of Lance's motorcycle. A moment to treasure. If anybody can find the show on tape or dvd give a holler. We'd love to watch it again.

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  3. JamesAugust 22, 2009 at 8:57 AM

    I checked in Netflix, the library, and even PBS and they do not have it. What a shame.

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  4. Doris DukeAugust 22, 2009 at 3:51 PM

    By the way, for those of you with out gaydar, Lance is on the far upper right

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  5. Pex PetrovAugust 23, 2009 at 12:50 AM

    There is a fabulous documentary of Lance's life - "Death in an American Family" done in 2001. His days at the Chelsea Hotel still live in infamy.

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