According to what you read in the check-out line at the grocery store this week, another celebrity has released a tell-all. The thing is, you’re sure nothing in it will be surprising, nor are you scandalized. Really, is anything private anymore? Can anyone keep a secret for long? Read Frank by author and former Congressman…
OUT IN THE LINE-UP: A Film about Homosexuality in Surfing from Gay Surfers on Vimeo. Being gay in the line-up has always been something you don’t mention. Ridicule, threats, bashing and ostracism were often what was at stake. For the first time, members of the surfing community, both professional and amateur, have spoken on camera…
Congressman Barney Frank today released a statement in response to the announcement by the Log Cabin Republicans that they are endorsing Mitt Romney to be President of the United States. The endorsement was announced only one day after the release of an essay by Congressman Frank, that has been published in full on LGBTweekly.com, in…
BY CONGRESSMAN BARNEY FRANK October 22, 2012 The upcoming elections will be the most important in our history from the standpoint of legal equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. In decades, there has not been a sharper distinction between the two parties on any issue than there is today on LGBT legal equality….
Barney Frank, 71, announced his engagement to longtime partner Jim Ready, 42, Thursday following a report by New England Cable News. The couple were engaged in Massachusetts where gay marriage has been legal since 2004. “I have a partner now,” Frank said in a statement according to the Washington Post. “I’m in love for the…
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) has announced his pending retirement from Congress in wake of his announcement that he will not seek a 17th term. Barney, 71, has been an active liberal Democrat, well-known for his many contributions to fight for LGBT rights. He leaves behind his post citing a “deteriorating political culture and a more…
