Barney Frank

Gay Criticism Of Chuck Hagel Keeps A-Coming

President Obama's nomination of former U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense has been controversial, partly because of Hagel's icky gay-related remarks in 1998, not to mention his bad record on LGBT issues. Here are some statements that have come forth on the issue: Garden State Equal ... More >>

Barney Frank's Coming Out Story Hits The Press

Born This Way: Real Stories of Growing Up Gay is Paul Vitagliano's imminent book which compiles various people's remembrances of being young and different. In it, there's the above 1953 photo of outspoken Congressman Barney Frank as a boyish thing, alongside his parents and some very literate cake ... More >>

When Rightbloggers Tell You the Battle of Chick-fil-A Isn't About Gay Rights, It's About Gay Rights

In years to come, rightbloggers will tell their grandchildren many stories of the glorious summer of twenty-twelve. They'll tell 'em how they warned America about the socialist menace of the Olympics. They'll tell 'em how, in the wake of the Aurora shooting, they defended assault weapons against Dem ... More >>

Democratic Party Approves Same-Sex Marriage Equality Plank for DNC

Chris Johnson at the Washington Blade is reporting that the Democratic Party has approved a same-sex marriage equality platform plank for the upcoming Democratic National Convention. Quoting outgoing, openly gay congressman Barney Frank, the Blade reports that a 15 member panel unanimously backed i ... More >>

Rep. Barney Frank Breaks Down the Same-Sex Marriage Barrier in Congress

In 1981, as the booming gay culture was being hit with the AIDS epidemic and a rising conservative culture in Washington, Barney Frank, a young Democrat from Massachusetts, entered Congress. Six years later, he became the first elected official on the Hill to voluntarily tell the public about his ho ... More >>

Online Poker Kings Get Cashed Out

Killing livelihoods and a $2.5 billion industry, the feds attack Internet gambling

The Suckadelic Era

The designer-toy world's biggest jerkbag thinks you're an asshole for reading this story.

I've Been Declared A "Queen Bear"

​Or more specifically, "the grandmother of the Queen Bear movement". Here's an excerpt from a christwire article on twinks vs. bears, the two groups waging a bitter internal struggle to determine the future of the gay movement, especially with regard to hair design: "Bears tend to live in sm ... More >>

The Eight Funniest Things I Said To Keith Olbermann

​As Keith Olbermann prepares to move to Current TV, let's reminisce about the naughty things I used to say to him on air--utterances that would make him simultaneously blush and egg me on. Here are the cutest/bawdiest:

Congratulations, TV-Watching Americans: Political Viral Video Expert Says You're Fat, Lazy, and Stupid!

​If anybody would know what makes television-watching Americans tick, it's the guy who puts together viral video campaigns for politicians. And boy, does he know.

Tea Partiers Drop N Bombs, Anti-gay Slur, and Spit on Democratic Lawmakers at Capitol Hill Protest

cj brenchley​Members of the Congressional Black Caucus leaving a speech on health care by the President yesterday were met by tea party protesters chanting "Kill the bill, nigger." The incident has been confirmed by Congressmen John Lewis (D-Ga), Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo), Andre Carson (D-In), an ... More >>

Eric Massa: The Final Indignities

Saturday Night Live got on the Massa thing, and even hauled in Jerry Seinfeld for the snorkeling jokes. Other late coverage has similarly devolved to the fanciful. Queerty asks "Why Does Every Cable News Chatfest About Rep. Eric Massa Have to Suck So Bad?" and notices that Bill Press, one of th ... More >>

The Kids are Alright -- Unless They Vote for Ron Paul at CPAC, Say Rightbloggers

The 37th annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), which took place in D.C. last week, came at a happy time for conservatives, what with the recent election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts, the increased visibility of the Tea Party movement due to their own recent convention, and a wav ... More >>

Online Poker Requires Constant Influx of Suckers, Says Leaked Report

​Ever wonder what online poker companies think of you, the consumer? Well, on the heels of our piece in this week's Voice about James Giordano and Internet gambling, someone forwarded us an investment bank's analysis of an online poker company named PartyGaming. Advocates of online poker lik ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

​Like to gamble online? Political odd couples like Barney Frank and Al D'Amato are fighting for your right to do so. Meanwhile James Giordano made millions via internet gambling, and wound up in prison. So... do you feel lucky? Graham Rayman has the story. Tom Robbins has previously covered t ... More >>

The Rise and Fall of Internet Sports Bookie and Poker Pro James Giordano

From Bluff magazine to court, James Giordano was wired for success until Queens prosecutors captured him in their web

We've Bailed out the Banks. When Do We Go After the Crooks Behind our Financial Collapse?

Sports Betting on Newspaper Websites? It Could Happen

​In this week's cover story about the state of local daily newspapers, we mentioned New York Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman's idea to allow sports gambling on his newspaper's website. In an interview with Forbes business magazine earlier this year, Mort said, "There is something that can be ... More >>

Conservative Group Calls for Prayer Offensive Against Treasonous, Homosexual Leaders

​Some conservatives have decided that calling their mortal enemies Hitler, or murdering them and writing the word "Fed" on their chests, may be a counterproductive way of achieving the abortion-free oligarchy our Founders envisioned. So, World magazine tells us, Liberty Counsel, an adjunct of ... More >>

Joe Wilson Censured

​And oh yeah, the House voted to censure Joe Wilson, 240-179, for shooting his mouth off at the President's address last week. We share the attitude of Barney Frank, who said, "I think it's bad precedent to put us in charge of deciding whether people act like jerks. I don't have time to monito ... More >>

Latest Broke Wall Streeter's Tale Not As Much Fun As The Others

Either we're too sensitive, or else we're getting soft, but we just can't muster up a decent schadenfreude over the descent of Carlos Araya, formerly a $200,000/year Wall Street trader and now a $25,000/year host at the Palm Restaurant, as described at the Wall Street Journal. Is it because he weeps ... More >>

Kirby Dick's Outrage Outs Closeted Pols and the Media that Protect Them

Fox News Gets Mafia Guy to Call Democrats Mobsters, Traitors

In the immortal words of The Simpsons, "The Fox network has sunk to a new low." Here are two Fox News bobbleheads getting mobster/author Michael Franzese to tell them that the Obama Administration is like a crime family. "What do you mean?" asks the female bobblehead. "Extortion?" "I mean just thi ... More >>

AIG Bonuses, "Counterparty" Payments Pissing Everyone Off (Updated)

Barack Obama has been hassling AIG since before he was President, but has been going along with their standing bailout plan. Now that it's revealed AIG is paying out another $165 million in bonuses, Obama is joining Andrew Cuomo*, Barney Frank, Russ Feingold and others in clamoring to get the money ... More >>

Citi Cancels Jet, Continues to Hold Back TARP Funds

When the New York Post revealed that CitiGroup, recipients of $45 billion in public largesse, had ordered a $50 million corporate jet ("JUST PLANE DESPICABLE"), reaction was swift and brutal. The Times noticed that Barney Frank had removed a TARP provision that would have prevented such a purchase. ... More >>

Real motherfuckers: AIG still hands out bonuses

On Auto Bailout, Congress Talks Economic "Fire," "Meltdown"

Palin Failin', Rightbloggers Turn to/on Blacks and Gays to Close the Gap

Daily Flog: The Wall Street bear, the Capitol Hill bull; Kucinich irrelevant but his bailout plan isn't

Buck Angel, A Man With a Pussy: LGB Without the T

As transgenders push for respect, a rift grows with traditional gay leadership

Opening (Some) Doors for Blair's Son

Light 'Em Up

Advocates for medical pot look beyond a Supreme Court bummer

A Plug for the GOP

In the long run, Schiavo case could get spun to Republicans' advantage

Barney Rumble: Superficial Doc Revisits Clinton's Gay '90s

Close Call

Queers could help decide Bush's fate this fall

Standing on Ceremony

A Rites Issue: Straight Couples Who Refuse to Marry Because Gays Can't

Ready, Aim, Fired!

Rumsfeld Steps Onto the Demos' Target Range

It's DéJà Vu All Over Again as Bush and Gore Rerun for Office

100th Civil Liberties Safe Zone!

Hawaii Is the First State to Defy Ashcroft

Terrorizing the Bill of Rights

'Why Should We Care? It's Only the Constitution'

Slowing the Ashcroft Act

Haste Could Lay Waste to Liberty

D.C.’s Political Boot Camp

An Intern’s Guide to Capitol Hill

Dream of a Worldwide Truce

Up In Smoke

Supreme Court Snuffs Medical Marijuana Clubs, But Users Vow To Keep on Toking

Looking For Lefty

Progressives Could Choose the Next President—For Better or Worse

Nation

High Crimes

The Hate That Makes Men Straight

Psychoanalysts probe the roots of homophobia

House of Hypocrites

While congress is set to sit in judgment of President Clinton, many of its members have their own indiscretions to deal with. Lucky for them Ken Starr isn't investigating them and the notoriously lax ethics committee is.