My Life as a Gay Congrsman - POLITICO Magaze

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• 340.263 FOTOS STOCK E IMáGEN ALTA ROLUCIóN  GAY
• FOTOS DE HOMBR GAY - IMáGEN STOCK
• 340.263 FOTOS STOCK E IMáGEN ALTA ROLUCIóN  GAY
• IMáGEN LIBR REGALíAS BANRA GAY
• FOTOS DE HOMBR GAY - IMáGEN STOCK
• GAY HOMBR MADUROS - IMáGEN STOCK
• MY LIFE AS A GAY CONGRSMAN
• BARNEY GAY
• BARNEY FRANK'S JOURNEY FROM CLOSETED TO AN OPENLY GAY MEMBER OF CONGRS

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En 2006 hizo públi su ndición homosexual y pronto prentó en sociedad al que su nov s hace ya seis años: el chef y actor David Burtka. NEWS > ¡Disney hace historia mostrando su primer bo gay! In 1987, Congrsman Barney Frank, a Democrat om Massachetts, ma history when he told the Boston Globe, “If you ask the direct qutn: ‘Are you gay?

S Hoe of Reprentativ, Frank advoted for numero bills that promoted gay rights, and was the leadg -sponsor on other key legislatn cludg 2010’s Dodd-Frank Act, which overhled fancial regulatn the wake of the 2008 fancial crisis. I said, ‘Yeah, I’d like to get volved polics, but I uld probably never get elected bee I’m gay.

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’ I knew I was gay om 13.

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To be gay [was at the time] to be very unpopular.

Everybody who ran for the legislature was asked by the gay and lbian groups, ‘Would you support a gay rights bill, repealg the law agast sodomy and preventg job discrimatn? [I cid then] that while I would not e out publicly, but I would be very supportive of gay rights. And to the then-lear of the gay rights movement Ameri, a guy name Steve Enan.

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He said, ‘Here’s the problem—I’m tryg to get people to sponsor gay rights bills all the legislatur, and I’ve been braggg about how many straight people I have supportg the bills.

Every year I fd out another one is gay.

In 1987, you beme the first Congrsman to choose to publicly e out as gay. Before I me out, was not a great secret that I was gay. Unrstandably, gay people who knew I was gog to e out were very enthed.

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’ They were aaid that if I me out, my fluence would be dimished every area but gay rights. And advanced my advocy of gay rights.

It’s one thg for me as a ‘straight person’ to ask my lleagu to vote for gay rights when they’d say was polilly difficult.

You uld not be an [openly gay] immigrant to Ameri. I was a participant Congrs on gettg rid of laws on the books that discrimated agast gay people.

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From the begng of what was lled [the gay rights movement], until well to the ‘90s, there wasn’t much [mastream] nversatn about trans people. More gay and lbian people ially me out than did transgenr people. I thk we are now, regards to transgenr people, where we were wh regard to gay and lbian people maybe 20 years ago.

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Though I was a third term Democratic ngrsman om Massachetts, I had lived too long wh the burn of “the gay thg” to treat g out as a polil matter alone. I’d felt shame as I watched younger gay men and lbians nont the bigots openly wh a urage that I lacked. They remaed mted to the “le” that proment people should not be outed unls they had been enmhed a gay-related sndal, but they were unrstandably eager to break the story.

BARNEY FRANK'S JOURNEY FROM CLOSETED TO AN OPENLY GAY MEMBER OF CONGRS

I nsistently said no—I didn’t ny I was gay but voked their own nondisclosure prciple. His primary ncern was outlawg abortn, but he had followed the nservative movement’s anti-gay le as well.