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Barney Frank's Journey From Closeted To An Openly Gay Member Of Congress

In 1972, former Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., decided he would run for the state Legislature in Massachusetts — but he also explicitly decided to stay in the closet. And as he made this decision, he made a promise to himself to support LGBT rights.

"I could not stay with myself if I did not oppose the discrimination," Frank tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross.

That year, two organizations asked candidates for the mention Legislature if they would sponsor a gay rights bill. Frank says he enthusiastically agreed, expecting a senior member to grab the lead.

"I was a little afraid of [being out front] because I was 32, unmarried — other people would draw inferences," Frank says.

But Frank was the only member who won who said he'd sponsor the bill, so he did take the conduct. Throughout that decade, Frank became an increasingly active and prominent leader of gay rights.

"And I was increasingly depressed by the disparity between my advocating the rights for everybody else and then denying myself any chance to participate in it," he says.

It turns out, Frank not only participated in it, he wa

The Voice Season 25 Knockout Rounds commenced Monday, and while one of the night's most compelling contestants, Team Dan + Shay's Frank Garcia, sadly did not win his Knockout, he emerged victorious anyway, winning at life.

Frank, an androgynous former mariachi singer and new-school R&B crooner with an intriguingly Anohni-esque tone, came to The Voice with an impressive singing-show résumé, having competed on both La Voz Kids and EstrellaTV's Latin tune show Tengo Talento, Mucho Talento. But the latter exposure hadn't been a pleasant one. At that second, Frank — who was only 11 and still figuring out who he was — was cruelly bullied online because of his effeminate image, which only pushed him further into the closet.

19-year-old sends bold message about queer identity with a soul-stirring performance on 'The Voice'

19-year-old Frank Garcia openly shared his sexuality during his 'The Voice' Season 25 audition in 2024, saying, "Since I was little, I knew that I was gay." Fortunately, debut coaches Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney took him under their wings after his soul-stirring rendition of Adele's 'Love in the Dark.' However, this was not the first moment Garcia performed on a singing talent show. As per NBC, he previously competed on Season 4 of the Spanish 'La Voz Kids,' reaching the Battle Rounds before elimination.

Meanwhile, during 'The Voice' Knockout Rounds, Garcia, who had initially struggled to 'come out of the closet' due to extreme bullying, wanted to establish himself as a successful queer singer. With incredible support from mega-mentor Keith Urban, he chose to perform José José's 'El Triste' (The Downcast One) to deliver a powerful message. Explaining his connection, he said, "Not only does this anthem allow me to introduce my heritage and my roots, but also this song just holds a lot of memories for me." "It has been with me throughout the process of my self-identity journ

My Queer Voice

Essays

It has outed me my whole life. Why?

Zachary Pace

It is the law of my own voice I shall investigate.
—Frank O’Hara, “Homosexuality”

You can hear, as soon as I start to speak—effeminate inflection, nasal vowels, slight lisp—qualities of tone that may sound dissonant from my gender presentation: a queer voice.

My mother loves to reminisce that even before I learned to walk, every second a certain 1987 Pepsi commercial aired—in which a vending machine opens a portal into a crowded nightclub where Gloria Estefan is exuberantly lip-synching a verse from “Conga” (its lyrics replaced by Pepsi marketing slogans), backed by the members of Miami Sound Machine miming its unmistakable instrumentals—I’d crawl to the television, pull myself up, press my hands against the screen, and bounce to the thrash of the song.

There, the cultivation of my traits commenced, kindled by the incandescence of a female-bodied singer.

Here, let’s define queer: “whatever is at odds with the normal, the legitimate, the dominant”—according to queer theorist David M. Halperin. If we’re talking about queer people, then we’re primarily referring to