Barney Frank, Amerin Democratic polician who served the U.S. Hoe of Reprentativ (1981–2013) and was one of the first openly gay members of Congrs. He thored (wh Chris Dodd) the Dodd-Frank Act, a broad package of regulatns and reforms of the fancial servic and nsumer fance dtri.
Contents:
- HOW CONGRSMAN GERRY STUDDS MA HISTORY BY COMG OUT AS GAY
- JAM HORMEL, AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY AMBASSADOR, DI AT 88
- FIRST OPENLY GAY REPUBLIN ELECTED TO HOE WON LI SEAT WH ‘MON SENSE’ MSAGE
- PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON NFIRMED TO US BET
- US ELECTS FIRST TRANS STATE SENATOR AND FIRST BLACK GAY NGRSMAN
HOW CONGRSMAN GERRY STUDDS MA HISTORY BY COMG OUT AS GAY
Congrs has more openly gay members than ever before. Thirteen members of the 118th Congrs intify as lbian, gay or bisexual, cludg Sen. Tammy Baldw, a Wisns Democrat who beme the first openly gay U.
Forty years ago, Democrat Gerry Studds helped pave the way for this historic reprentatn by beg the first member of Congrs to e out as gay while office. But the challeng are ma substantially more plex when one is, as am I, both an elected public official and gay.
Back then, “no Congrsman had survived a public revelatn of their homosexualy, ” acrdg to Jam Kirchick, thor of Secret Cy: The Hidn History of Gay Washgton. “There was jt a lot of fear the untry, a lot of prejudice surroundg the AIDS crisis, ” says Kirchick, who noted that the Cold War also played a role fuelg homophobia.
JAM HORMEL, AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY AMBASSADOR, DI AT 88
“There was this fear that gay people uld not be tsted wh natnal secury secrets bee they n be blackmailed—even though there was not a sgle example of a gay person beg blackmailed to givg secrets to a foreign power.
” The ntroversy over Studds stck a chord wh a fellow gay lleague the Massachetts legatn, Barney Frank. Their ntued electoral succs after g out were, to Frank, “the first ditns that Ameri was not as homophobic as people thought they were supposed to be.
FIRST OPENLY GAY REPUBLIN ELECTED TO HOE WON LI SEAT WH ‘MON SENSE’ MSAGE
And he believ beg openly gay is an asset for policians, cg 2020 printial ndidate and Secretary of Transportatn Pete Buttigieg. As he jok, “By the time I retired 2012, beg gay was much more socially acceptable than beg a ngrsman.
Hormel, the first openly gay person to reprent the Uned Stat as an ambassador, died on Friday San Francis.
Hormel as a sner and equated beg gay to havg an addictn or beg a Clton first nomated Mr.
PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON NFIRMED TO US BET
Hormel had been openly gay for three s.
He was long active the Democratic Party as a donor and served on the board of the foundatn of the Human Rights Campaign, the natn’s largt gay and lbian his nomatn was an issue for the Republin senators Jam Inhofe of Oklahoma, Tim Hutchson of Arkansas and Robert Smh of New Hampshire, who raised 11th-hour objectns as the Senate was phg to nfirm nome the ssn’s fal days that year.
US ELECTS FIRST TRANS STATE SENATOR AND FIRST BLACK GAY NGRSMAN
Hormel’s polil views and his gay rights activism as reasons to oppose his nomatn.