Editing Lance Loud (section)

==Later career and family==
When Loud left music performance, he became a columnist for several national magazines, including ''[[The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]]'', ''[[Details (magazine)|Details]]'', ''[[Interview (magazine)|Interview]]'', and ''[[Creem]]''. As a journalist, Loud remained active in cultural scenes as well as giving occasional lectures on the impact of ''An American Family'' on American society at colleges around the country. He was present at the [[Andy Warhol Museum]] in [[Pittsburgh]] when his teenage letters to Andy were officially entered into the Andy Warhol archive.

The Loud family was kept in the public eye through two televised PBS updates, each filmed by the original ''An American Family'' team of Alan and Susan Raymond.<ref name="pbs-about">{{cite web| url = https://www.pbs.org/lanceloud/about/
| title = About the Film | work = PBS.org | access-date = 2008-10-26 }}</ref> The last documentary, called ''Lance Loud! A Death in An American Family'', was about Loud's physical decline, to include his 20-year addiction to [[Methamphetamine|crystal meth]] and his struggle to survive with [[HIV]]. The documentary was shown on PBS in January 2003.<ref name="pbs-about" />

Subsequent to the showing of ''A Death in An American Family'', Loud's parents moved back in together, granting one of his last wishes.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Yardley |first1=William |title=Bill Loud, the Father of TV's 'An American Family,' Is Dead at 97 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/27/obituaries/bill-loud-dead-american-family.html |access-date=1 June 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=27 July 2018}}</ref><ref name=":0" />  Loud's mother and father lived in the same vicinity of all of their children, with the exception of Kevin, who lived outside of California.  Loud's father, Bill, died in 2018 and his mother, Pat, died in 2021.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/pat-laud-dead/2021/01/11/6268eb54-5413-11eb-a08b-f1381ef3d207_story.html |title=Pat Loud, early reality TV star as matriarch on 'An American Family,' dies at 94 |date=2021-01-11|author1=Emily Langer |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |place=Washington, D.C. |issn=0190-8286 |oclc=1330888409}}</ref>