Pat Loud Became a Den Mother to the City's Misfits
Pat Loud, the author, literary agent, television legend, pioneering LGBTQ ally, and consummate hostess—who, like a modern-day Gertrude Stein, entertained the underground and creative set in New York City and Los Angeles—left the party that she made out of life on January 10, 2021, at 94. “She passed away peacefully in her sleep of natural causes, snuggled up safe in her comfy home, attended by loving children Michele, Delilah, Kevin, and Grant,” the family announced. Reports of her death, as Mark Twain would have said, have been greatly exaggerated: Tributes linked her appearance as t...
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