Barney Frank Looks Back—And Forward—After Decades of LGBTQ Advocacy - a podcast by time.com

In 1987, Congressman Barney Frank, a Democrat from Massachusetts, made history when he told the Boston Globe, “If you ask the direct question: 'Are you gay?' The answer is yes. So what?”

The interview made Frank the first member of Congress to choose to come out while in office, and propelled him into becoming one of the most prominent political faces of the LGBTQ rights movement in the following decades. During his thirty-two year tenure in the U.

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