Congressman Barney Frank featured on ’60 Minutes’ [video]
”I’m gay. I’m left-handed. I’m Jewish. There’s a lot of things I’m supposed to do, that I don’t do…. [Growing up gay in the 1950s] was hard internally. It wasn’t hard externally because I just never told anybody I was gay. I mean, not anybody — not a single human being…. I realized it when I was 13. It was very depressing, very sad. And I was very frightened about it. And I just figured, ‘OK, I’ll just repress it.’ …. And Kay [Longcope of the Boston Globe] came down and sat down and put a tape recorder in front of me and said, ‘Are you gay?’ and I gave what was a very considered answer, ‘Yeah, so what?’ …. I wanted it to be kind of butch.”’
Congressman Barney Frank on this past Sunday’s ’60 Minutes’ speaking about history as a Democratic Representative for Massachusetts United States. The feature story by Leslie Stahl includes his current position as a leader in the financial recovery process, his coming out process to the press and to Speaker Tip O’Neill, footage of his on-the-air shouting match with Bill O’Reilly, and a recap of the sex scandal that resulted in him receiving an official reprimand. (CBS News)
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