I’M not really sure when I first saw “An American Family” on PBS, but I do remember my first thoughts when I figured out what Lance Loud represented. He was the first real person that was gay and ...

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Pat Loud, America’s first reality TV star, passed away on January 10 at her home in Los Angeles at age 94. I knew Pat through her oldest son, Lance, and it was clear to me from the beginning of our ...

The nation’s headlines in the early months of 1973 told of Roe v. Wade, the occupation of Wounded Knee, a growing Watergate scandal, George Steinbrenner buying the Yankees, the official opening of the ...

Eldest son Lance, of the Loud family profiled on PBS in 1973, became the first openly gay man on television and a gay icon for his generation. When Lance entered hospice in 2001 with a terminal HIV ...

The monumental gnarliness of 2001 was brought to a hideous crescendo on Dec. 22 with the sad passing of that The monumental gnarliness of 2001 was brought to a hideous crescendo on Dec. 22 with the ...

Now that I have your attention, let's talk about another series - one that pioneered "reality TV" three decades ago - and about a new documentary celebrating that series' breakout star, "Lance Loud! A ...

According to her family, she died of natural causes on Sunday Pat Loud, the matriarch of one of television's first-ever reality shows — the 1973 PBS docuseries An American Family — has died. She was ...