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- HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
- ARE BILL AND FRANK GAY THE LAST OF US? WHAT’S THEIR RELATNSHIP?
- BARNEY {LOR:#595959;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:600;MARG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:0.875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.2;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:1.25REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.2;}} A{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:HER;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;} A:HOVER{LOR:#A00000;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}BARNEY FRANK IS THE FIRST U.S. CONGRSMAN TO VOLUNTARILY ANNOUNCE HIS HOMOSEXUALY. HE IS ALSO KNOWN FOR HIS WORK ON THE 2008 AMERIN HOG RCUE AND FORECLOSURE PREVENTN {MARG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0.3125REM;LOR:#323232;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-SIZE:0.75REM;LE-HEIGHT:1;FONT-WEIGHT:800;} SPAN{LE-HEIGHT:1.6;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;}{FONT-STYLE:NORMAL;PADDG-RIGHT:0.3125REM;FONT-FAY:RALAS,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;LOR:#323232;FONT-SIZE:0.75REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.3;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;TEXT-TRANSFORM:PALIZE;}{PADDG-RIGHT:0.3125REM;FONT-FAY:RALAS,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;LOR:#323232;FONT-SIZE:0.75REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.3;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;TEXT-TRANSFORM:PALIZE;}BY {DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;MARG-LEFT:0.625REM;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-SIZE:0.75REM;LE-HEIGHT:1;FONT-WEIGHT:800;}UPDATED: JUN 15, {DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;}{MARG-BOTTOM:0.9375REM;POSN:RELATIVE;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 64REM){{MAX-WIDTH:LC(100VW - (1REM * 2));MARG-LEFT:1REM;MARG-RIGHT:1REM;} .E152U5OS0{WIDTH:100VW;MARG-LEFT:LC(-1 * 1REM);}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM) AND (MAX-WIDTH: 61.25REM){{MARG-LEFT:TO;MARG-RIGHT:TO;} .E152U5OS0{WIDTH:100VW;MARG-LEFT:LC((100VW - (LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM) - 2 * 1REM)) / -2);}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 61.25REM) AND (MAX-WIDTH: 90REM){{MAX-WIDTH:LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM);MARG-LEFT:LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM) - 1REM - 20.625REM) / 2);PADDG-LEFT:1REM;PADDG-RIGHT:1REM;} .E152U5OS0{WIDTH:100VW;MARG-LEFT:LC(LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM) - 1REM - 20.625REM) / -2) - 1REM);}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 90REM){{MARG-LEFT:LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM)) / 2);MAX-WIDTH:LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM);PADDG-LEFT:1REM;PADDG-RIGHT:1REM;} .E152U5OS0{WIDTH:100VW;MARG-LEFT:LC(LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 + 1REM)) / -2) - LC(2 * 1REM));}[DATA-HAS-SPONSOR] {MARG-LEFT:LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM)) / 4);MARG-RIGHT:LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM)) / 4);}}{JTIFY-SELF:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{MARG-LEFT:-50VW;MARG-RIGHT:-50VW;WIDTH:100VW;LEFT:50%;RIGHT:50%;}}{HEIGHT:TO;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{MARG:TO LC(50% - 50VW);}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{MARG:TO;}}{POSN:RELATIVE;HEIGHT:TO;}{POSN:RELATIVE;--POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:TO;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;HEIGHT:TO;} A{POSN:ABSOLUTE;}{POSN:RELATIVE;WIDTH:100%;HEIGHT:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;VERTIL-ALIGN:TOP;}{BACKGROUND:#C92228;BOTTOM:0;PADDG:.5REM;RIGHT:0;}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 64REM){{PADDG:0.39REM;}}{DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:1REM;WIDTH:1REM;}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 64REM){{WIDTH:1.063REM;HEIGHT:1.063REM;}}{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-SIZE:1.1875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.6;PADDG-LEFT:0REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0REM;POSN:RELATIVE;}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{PADDG-LEFT:3.5REM;PADDG-RIGHT:3.5REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM) AND (MAX-WIDTH: 61.25REM){{MAX-WIDTH:45.25REM;MARG-LEFT:TO;MARG-RIGHT:TO;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 61.25REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 73.75REM) AND (MAX-WIDTH: 100REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 90REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0REM;}} EM{FONT-STYLE:ALIC;FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;} STRONG{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;}{CLEAR:BOTH;NTENT:" ";DISPLAY:BLOCK;FONT-SIZE:0.7REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.5REM;HEIGHT:0REM;VISIBILY:HIDN;}{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-SIZE:1.1875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.6;} STRONG{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;} EM{FONT-STYLE:ALIC;FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;}(1940-){LOR:#323232;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:800;LETTER-SPACG:0.02EM;MARG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;MARG-TOP:0.625REM;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:1.875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.1;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:2REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.1;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 64REM){{FONT-SIZE:2REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.1;}} B, STRONG{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;} EM, I{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-STYLE:ALIC;}WHEN WAS BARNEY FRANK BORN?BARNEY FRANK WAS BORN ON MARCH 31, 1940, BAYONNE, NEW JERSEY. THE MASSACHETTS DEMOCRAT BEME A U.S. CONGRSMAN 1980 AND PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED HIS HOMOSEXUALY 1987. FRANK WORKED AT LENGTH ON THE AMERIN HOG RCUE AND FORECLOSURE PREVENTN ACT, WHICH WAS PASSED 2008. HE MARRIED HIS LONGTIME BOYIEND, JIM READY, JULY 2012.EARLY LIFEMASSACHETTS CONGRSMAN BARNEY FRANK (D) IS NSIRED ONE OF THE MOST PROMENT GAY POLICIANS THE UNED STAT. BORN BART FRANK TO ELSIE AND SAMUEL FRANK, BARNEY GREW UP BAYONNE, NEW JERSEY. HIS FATHER RAN A JERSEY CY TCK STOP AND LATER SERVED A YEAR JAIL FOR REFG TO TTIFY AGAST HIS BROTHER, WHO WAS VOLVED A KICKBACK SCHEME. DPE THE CINT, FRANK'S PARENTS STILLED HIM AND HIS THREE SIBLGS "A BELIEF THE POWER OF THE ERNMENT TO DO GOOD," ACRDG TO A JANUARY 2009 ARTICLE {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}THE NEW YORKER.FRANK GRADUATED OM HARVARD COLLEGE 1962 AND LATER EARNED HIS DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY GREE ERNMENT WHILE TEACHG UNRGRADUATE CLASS. HE THEN BEME CHIEF ASSISTANT TO BOSTON MAYOR KEV AND WORKED FOR MASSACHETTS CONGRSMAN MICHAEL HARRGTON. IN 1972, FRANK SERVED ON THE MASSACHETTS HOE OF REPRENTATIV FOR EIGHT YEARS WHILE ATTENDG HARVARD LAW SCHOOL. IN 1979, HE PASSED THE BAR EXAM MASSACHETTS.DURG HIS TIME STATE ERNMENT, FRANK TGHT PART-TIME AT HIS ALMA MATER AND SEVERAL OTHER UNIVERSI, CLUDG BOSTON UNIVERSY. HE ALSO PUBLISHED ARTICL ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND POLICS. BY THE LATE 1970S, FRANK CID TO PURSUE HIGHER OFFICE—AND 1980—HE RAN FOR AND WON THE U.S. HOE OF REPRENTATIV 4TH CONGRSNAL DISTRICT SEAT, WHICH HE NTUED TO W EVERY ELECTN THEREAFTER. HE ANNOUNCED NOVEMBER 2011 THAT HE WOULD NOT SEEK RE-ELECTN THE FOLLOWG YEAR. COMG OUTFRANK OPENED UP ABOUT HIS HOMOSEXUALY TO IENDS BEFORE HE RAN FOR CONGRS, BUT HE NCEALED HIS SEXUAL PREFERENCE OM THE PUBLIC UNTIL MAY 30, 1987. FRANK, THE FIRST NGRSMAN TO EVER PUBLICLY ANNOUNCE HIS HOMOSEXUALY, SAID THAT ONE OF HIS REASONS FOR DOG SO WAS THAT HE DID NOT WANT TO END UP LIKE CLOSETED BISEXUAL REPUBLIN CONNECTICUT CONGRSMAN STEWART MCKNEY: AFTER MCKNEY'S ATH, ON MAY 7, 1987, MEDIA SPECULATN AROSE REGARDG WHETHER OR NOT HE WAS GAY. "I DON'T WANT THAT TO HAPPEN TO ME," FRANK TOLD THE WASHGTON POST. ACRDG TO EDGE BOSTON MAGAZE, ANOTHER TALYST FOR FRANK'S REVELATN WAS CREASED MEDIA TERT HIS PRIVATE LIFE AFTER FORMER REPUBLIN MARYLAND CONGRSMAN BOB BMAN WAS OTED OM HIS SEAT FOLLOWG AN ARRT FOR SOLICG AN UNRAGE MALE PROSTUTE.CONGRSNAL CAREERIN HIS 32-YEAR REER AS A MEMBER OF THE U.S. CONGRS, FRANK BEME WELL-KNOWN FOR HIS VOLVEMENT THE HOE'S FANCIAL SERVIC COMMTEE AND MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE BAILOUT ISSU.SHORTLY AFTER FRANK ANNOUNCED HIS IMMENT PARTURE OM CONGRS, THE WASHGTON POST PUBLISHED AN ARTICLE EXPLORG THE NGRSMAN'S EFFECT ON THE 2007 HOG CRISIS. ITS NCLN, STATED THE ARTICLE'S HEADLE, SAID: "BARNEY FRANK DIDN'T E THE HOG CRISIS."FANNIE MAE FOUGHT AGGRSIVELY TO MIMIZE FERAL REGULATN OF S ACTIVI AND ATTEMPTS TO TAX S PROFS. AMONG S TACTICS WAS GIVG "EXTRAVAGANT FAVORS" TO FLUENTIAL LAWMAKERS, CLUDG FRANK, WHO RECEIVED $42,350 MPAIGN NTRIBUTNS OM FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC BETWEEN 1989 AND 2008. BUT 2005, FRANK ALSO ATTEMPTED TO HELP SPONSOR A BIPARTISAN HOE BILL TO CREATE AN PENNT REGULATOR FOR THE RPORATNS: DIED THE SENATE. FOLLOWG THE SUBPRIME MORTGAGE CRISIS, FRANK SUPPORTED THE PASSAGE OF THE AMERIN HOG RCUE AND FORECLOSURE PREVENTN ACT, WHICH TEND TO PROTECT HOMEOWNERS OM FORECLOSURE. THE LAW, PASSED 2008, IS NOW NSIRED ONE OF THE MOST SENTIAL AND PLEX ISSU OF FRANK'S REER.WHERE IS BARNEY FRANK NOW?TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AFTER HE REVEALED TO THE NATN THAT HE WAS GAY, A 72-YEAR-OLD FRANK MARRIED HIS LONGTIME BOYIEND, JIM READY, WHO WAS 42 AT THE TIME. ON THE EVENG OF SATURDAY, JULY 7, 2012, FRANK AND READY EXCHANGED VOWS AT THE BOSTON MARRTT NEWTON BOSTON A CEREMONY OFFICIATED BY MASSACHETTS GOV. DEVAL PATRICK. MANY POLIL LUMARI, CLUDG CONGRSWOMAN NANCY PELOSI, ATTEND THE CEREMONY, BUT MEMBERS OF THE MEDIA WERE NOT PERMTED TO ATTEND. BY EXCHANGG VOWS MASSACHETTS SIX MONTHS BEFORE THE END OF HIS NGRSNAL REER, FRANK "TOOK ANOTHER LIBERATE FIRST STEP ... [AND WILL] SPEND THE RT OF HIS TIME OFFICE AS THE NATN'S FIRST NGRSMAN A SAME-SEX MARRIAGE," THE WASHGTON POST WROTE.IN AN TERVIEW WH NEW YORK MAGAZE APRIL 2012, FRANK SAID HE WANTED TO GET MARRIED WHILE OFFICE BEE HE THKS "'S IMPORTANT THAT [HIS] LLEAGU TERACT WH A MARRIED GAY MAN." HE ALSO TOLD THE REPORTER WHY HE CID TO LEAVE CONGRS AT THE END OF HIS TERM. "I'VE BEEN DOG THIS SCE OCTOBER OF 1967, AND I'VE SEEN TOO MANY PEOPLE STAY HERE BEYOND WHEN THEY SHOULD," FRANK SAID. "I DON'T HAVE THE ENERGY THAT I ED TO HAVE. I DON'T LIKE ANYMORE, I'M TIRED, AND MY NERV ARE AYED. AND I DISLIKE THE NEGATIVISM OF THE MEDIA. I THK THE MEDIA HAS GOTTEN CYNIL AND NEGATIVE TO A POT WHERE 'S UNPRODUCTIVE."IN 2022, THOR AND ILLTRATOR ERIC OMER RELEASED A GRAPHIC NOVEL BASED ON BARNEY'S LIFE TLED "SMAHTGUY: THE LIFE AND TIM OF BARNEY FRANK." {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS
- BARNEY FRANK IS THE FIRST MARRIED, OPENLY GAY CONGRSMAN
HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
She told CNN that, while playg the game for the first time, her “gaydar pged” when Bill mentned his “partner, ” but by the time she read Frank’s suici note, she wonred if she’d misunrstood – maybe the pair were jt bs partners and nothg more, she thought.
ARE BILL AND FRANK GAY THE LAST OF US? WHAT’S THEIR RELATNSHIP?
” Riley MacLeod of the Washgton Post noted that however movg their story was to viewers, Bill and Frank still “fall to well-worn gay ath trop” – a gay man phg another gay man, sickened by an unknown disease, a wheelchair; an image often shown storyl about HIV-posive characters – and are seemgly the “only two queer people the world. A cric for Logo TV wrote that the game rced Bill to a “punchle” after Ellie jok about a gay porn magaze she fds.
BARNEY {LOR:#595959;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:600;MARG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:0.875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.2;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:1.25REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.2;}} A{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:HER;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;} A:HOVER{LOR:#A00000;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}BARNEY FRANK IS THE FIRST U.S. CONGRSMAN TO VOLUNTARILY ANNOUNCE HIS HOMOSEXUALY. HE IS ALSO KNOWN FOR HIS WORK ON THE 2008 AMERIN HOG RCUE AND FORECLOSURE PREVENTN {MARG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0.3125REM;LOR:#323232;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-SIZE:0.75REM;LE-HEIGHT:1;FONT-WEIGHT:800;} SPAN{LE-HEIGHT:1.6;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;}{FONT-STYLE:NORMAL;PADDG-RIGHT:0.3125REM;FONT-FAY:RALAS,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;LOR:#323232;FONT-SIZE:0.75REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.3;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;TEXT-TRANSFORM:PALIZE;}{PADDG-RIGHT:0.3125REM;FONT-FAY:RALAS,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;LOR:#323232;FONT-SIZE:0.75REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.3;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;TEXT-TRANSFORM:PALIZE;}BY {DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;MARG-LEFT:0.625REM;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-SIZE:0.75REM;LE-HEIGHT:1;FONT-WEIGHT:800;}UPDATED: JUN 15, {DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;}{MARG-BOTTOM:0.9375REM;POSN:RELATIVE;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 64REM){{MAX-WIDTH:LC(100VW - (1REM * 2));MARG-LEFT:1REM;MARG-RIGHT:1REM;} .E152U5OS0{WIDTH:100VW;MARG-LEFT:LC(-1 * 1REM);}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM) AND (MAX-WIDTH: 61.25REM){{MARG-LEFT:TO;MARG-RIGHT:TO;} .E152U5OS0{WIDTH:100VW;MARG-LEFT:LC((100VW - (LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM) - 2 * 1REM)) / -2);}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 61.25REM) AND (MAX-WIDTH: 90REM){{MAX-WIDTH:LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM);MARG-LEFT:LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM) - 1REM - 20.625REM) / 2);PADDG-LEFT:1REM;PADDG-RIGHT:1REM;} .E152U5OS0{WIDTH:100VW;MARG-LEFT:LC(LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM) - 1REM - 20.625REM) / -2) - 1REM);}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 90REM){{MARG-LEFT:LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM)) / 2);MAX-WIDTH:LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM);PADDG-LEFT:1REM;PADDG-RIGHT:1REM;} .E152U5OS0{WIDTH:100VW;MARG-LEFT:LC(LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 + 1REM)) / -2) - LC(2 * 1REM));}[DATA-HAS-SPONSOR] {MARG-LEFT:LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM)) / 4);MARG-RIGHT:LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM)) / 4);}}{JTIFY-SELF:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{MARG-LEFT:-50VW;MARG-RIGHT:-50VW;WIDTH:100VW;LEFT:50%;RIGHT:50%;}}{HEIGHT:TO;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{MARG:TO LC(50% - 50VW);}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{MARG:TO;}}{POSN:RELATIVE;HEIGHT:TO;}{POSN:RELATIVE;--POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:TO;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;HEIGHT:TO;} A{POSN:ABSOLUTE;}{POSN:RELATIVE;WIDTH:100%;HEIGHT:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;VERTIL-ALIGN:TOP;}{BACKGROUND:#C92228;BOTTOM:0;PADDG:.5REM;RIGHT:0;}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 64REM){{PADDG:0.39REM;}}{DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:1REM;WIDTH:1REM;}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 64REM){{WIDTH:1.063REM;HEIGHT:1.063REM;}}{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-SIZE:1.1875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.6;PADDG-LEFT:0REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0REM;POSN:RELATIVE;}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{PADDG-LEFT:3.5REM;PADDG-RIGHT:3.5REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM) AND (MAX-WIDTH: 61.25REM){{MAX-WIDTH:45.25REM;MARG-LEFT:TO;MARG-RIGHT:TO;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 61.25REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 73.75REM) AND (MAX-WIDTH: 100REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 90REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0REM;}} EM{FONT-STYLE:ALIC;FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;} STRONG{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;}{CLEAR:BOTH;NTENT:" ";DISPLAY:BLOCK;FONT-SIZE:0.7REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.5REM;HEIGHT:0REM;VISIBILY:HIDN;}{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-SIZE:1.1875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.6;} STRONG{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;} EM{FONT-STYLE:ALIC;FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;}(1940-){LOR:#323232;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:800;LETTER-SPACG:0.02EM;MARG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;MARG-TOP:0.625REM;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:1.875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.1;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:2REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.1;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 64REM){{FONT-SIZE:2REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.1;}} B, STRONG{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;} EM, I{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-STYLE:ALIC;}WHEN WAS BARNEY FRANK BORN?BARNEY FRANK WAS BORN ON MARCH 31, 1940, BAYONNE, NEW JERSEY. THE MASSACHETTS DEMOCRAT BEME A U.S. CONGRSMAN 1980 AND PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED HIS HOMOSEXUALY 1987. FRANK WORKED AT LENGTH ON THE AMERIN HOG RCUE AND FORECLOSURE PREVENTN ACT, WHICH WAS PASSED 2008. HE MARRIED HIS LONGTIME BOYIEND, JIM READY, JULY 2012.EARLY LIFEMASSACHETTS CONGRSMAN BARNEY FRANK (D) IS NSIRED ONE OF THE MOST PROMENT GAY POLICIANS THE UNED STAT. BORN BART FRANK TO ELSIE AND SAMUEL FRANK, BARNEY GREW UP BAYONNE, NEW JERSEY. HIS FATHER RAN A JERSEY CY TCK STOP AND LATER SERVED A YEAR JAIL FOR REFG TO TTIFY AGAST HIS BROTHER, WHO WAS VOLVED A KICKBACK SCHEME. DPE THE CINT, FRANK'S PARENTS STILLED HIM AND HIS THREE SIBLGS "A BELIEF THE POWER OF THE ERNMENT TO DO GOOD," ACRDG TO A JANUARY 2009 ARTICLE {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}THE NEW YORKER.FRANK GRADUATED OM HARVARD COLLEGE 1962 AND LATER EARNED HIS DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY GREE ERNMENT WHILE TEACHG UNRGRADUATE CLASS. HE THEN BEME CHIEF ASSISTANT TO BOSTON MAYOR KEV AND WORKED FOR MASSACHETTS CONGRSMAN MICHAEL HARRGTON. IN 1972, FRANK SERVED ON THE MASSACHETTS HOE OF REPRENTATIV FOR EIGHT YEARS WHILE ATTENDG HARVARD LAW SCHOOL. IN 1979, HE PASSED THE BAR EXAM MASSACHETTS.DURG HIS TIME STATE ERNMENT, FRANK TGHT PART-TIME AT HIS ALMA MATER AND SEVERAL OTHER UNIVERSI, CLUDG BOSTON UNIVERSY. HE ALSO PUBLISHED ARTICL ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND POLICS. BY THE LATE 1970S, FRANK CID TO PURSUE HIGHER OFFICE—AND 1980—HE RAN FOR AND WON THE U.S. HOE OF REPRENTATIV 4TH CONGRSNAL DISTRICT SEAT, WHICH HE NTUED TO W EVERY ELECTN THEREAFTER. HE ANNOUNCED NOVEMBER 2011 THAT HE WOULD NOT SEEK RE-ELECTN THE FOLLOWG YEAR. COMG OUTFRANK OPENED UP ABOUT HIS HOMOSEXUALY TO IENDS BEFORE HE RAN FOR CONGRS, BUT HE NCEALED HIS SEXUAL PREFERENCE OM THE PUBLIC UNTIL MAY 30, 1987. FRANK, THE FIRST NGRSMAN TO EVER PUBLICLY ANNOUNCE HIS HOMOSEXUALY, SAID THAT ONE OF HIS REASONS FOR DOG SO WAS THAT HE DID NOT WANT TO END UP LIKE CLOSETED BISEXUAL REPUBLIN CONNECTICUT CONGRSMAN STEWART MCKNEY: AFTER MCKNEY'S ATH, ON MAY 7, 1987, MEDIA SPECULATN AROSE REGARDG WHETHER OR NOT HE WAS GAY. "I DON'T WANT THAT TO HAPPEN TO ME," FRANK TOLD THE WASHGTON POST. ACRDG TO EDGE BOSTON MAGAZE, ANOTHER TALYST FOR FRANK'S REVELATN WAS CREASED MEDIA TERT HIS PRIVATE LIFE AFTER FORMER REPUBLIN MARYLAND CONGRSMAN BOB BMAN WAS OTED OM HIS SEAT FOLLOWG AN ARRT FOR SOLICG AN UNRAGE MALE PROSTUTE.CONGRSNAL CAREERIN HIS 32-YEAR REER AS A MEMBER OF THE U.S. CONGRS, FRANK BEME WELL-KNOWN FOR HIS VOLVEMENT THE HOE'S FANCIAL SERVIC COMMTEE AND MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE BAILOUT ISSU.SHORTLY AFTER FRANK ANNOUNCED HIS IMMENT PARTURE OM CONGRS, THE WASHGTON POST PUBLISHED AN ARTICLE EXPLORG THE NGRSMAN'S EFFECT ON THE 2007 HOG CRISIS. ITS NCLN, STATED THE ARTICLE'S HEADLE, SAID: "BARNEY FRANK DIDN'T E THE HOG CRISIS."FANNIE MAE FOUGHT AGGRSIVELY TO MIMIZE FERAL REGULATN OF S ACTIVI AND ATTEMPTS TO TAX S PROFS. AMONG S TACTICS WAS GIVG "EXTRAVAGANT FAVORS" TO FLUENTIAL LAWMAKERS, CLUDG FRANK, WHO RECEIVED $42,350 MPAIGN NTRIBUTNS OM FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC BETWEEN 1989 AND 2008. BUT 2005, FRANK ALSO ATTEMPTED TO HELP SPONSOR A BIPARTISAN HOE BILL TO CREATE AN PENNT REGULATOR FOR THE RPORATNS: DIED THE SENATE. FOLLOWG THE SUBPRIME MORTGAGE CRISIS, FRANK SUPPORTED THE PASSAGE OF THE AMERIN HOG RCUE AND FORECLOSURE PREVENTN ACT, WHICH TEND TO PROTECT HOMEOWNERS OM FORECLOSURE. THE LAW, PASSED 2008, IS NOW NSIRED ONE OF THE MOST SENTIAL AND PLEX ISSU OF FRANK'S REER.WHERE IS BARNEY FRANK NOW?TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AFTER HE REVEALED TO THE NATN THAT HE WAS GAY, A 72-YEAR-OLD FRANK MARRIED HIS LONGTIME BOYIEND, JIM READY, WHO WAS 42 AT THE TIME. ON THE EVENG OF SATURDAY, JULY 7, 2012, FRANK AND READY EXCHANGED VOWS AT THE BOSTON MARRTT NEWTON BOSTON A CEREMONY OFFICIATED BY MASSACHETTS GOV. DEVAL PATRICK. MANY POLIL LUMARI, CLUDG CONGRSWOMAN NANCY PELOSI, ATTEND THE CEREMONY, BUT MEMBERS OF THE MEDIA WERE NOT PERMTED TO ATTEND. BY EXCHANGG VOWS MASSACHETTS SIX MONTHS BEFORE THE END OF HIS NGRSNAL REER, FRANK "TOOK ANOTHER LIBERATE FIRST STEP ... [AND WILL] SPEND THE RT OF HIS TIME OFFICE AS THE NATN'S FIRST NGRSMAN A SAME-SEX MARRIAGE," THE WASHGTON POST WROTE.IN AN TERVIEW WH NEW YORK MAGAZE APRIL 2012, FRANK SAID HE WANTED TO GET MARRIED WHILE OFFICE BEE HE THKS "'S IMPORTANT THAT [HIS] LLEAGU TERACT WH A MARRIED GAY MAN." HE ALSO TOLD THE REPORTER WHY HE CID TO LEAVE CONGRS AT THE END OF HIS TERM. "I'VE BEEN DOG THIS SCE OCTOBER OF 1967, AND I'VE SEEN TOO MANY PEOPLE STAY HERE BEYOND WHEN THEY SHOULD," FRANK SAID. "I DON'T HAVE THE ENERGY THAT I ED TO HAVE. I DON'T LIKE ANYMORE, I'M TIRED, AND MY NERV ARE AYED. AND I DISLIKE THE NEGATIVISM OF THE MEDIA. I THK THE MEDIA HAS GOTTEN CYNIL AND NEGATIVE TO A POT WHERE 'S UNPRODUCTIVE."IN 2022, THOR AND ILLTRATOR ERIC OMER RELEASED A GRAPHIC NOVEL BASED ON BARNEY'S LIFE TLED "SMAHTGUY: THE LIFE AND TIM OF BARNEY FRANK." {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS
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BARNEY FRANK IS THE FIRST MARRIED, OPENLY GAY CONGRSMAN
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