READY: Barney Frank To Marry His Partner Jim Ready!

Barney Frank will marry his longtime partner Jim Ready, New England's NECN is reporting: Congressman Barney Frank's office has confirmed that the retiring 71-year-old Representative is marrying is longtime partner, Jim Ready, in a Massachusetts ceremony. A date has not been set. In November 2011, Frank announced he would retire from Congress at the conclusion of his current term in 2013.

HOT SEAT: Barney Frank's Message to Trans Activists!

Congressman Barney Frank has never been afraid of speaking his mind. And now that he's retiring, the Massachusetts-based lawmaker can really let loose. That's precisely what he did in a recent sit-down with the Washington Blade.

In addition to discussing his own coming out and why it would be "political suicide" for liberals to abandon President Obama, the outgoing politico offered his thoughts on transgender opposition to a recent Massachusetts law that add gender identity to the state's non-discrimination regulations, yet still allows hotels, restaurants and other public spaces to turn trans people away.

FRANK TALK: Barney Frank Rips 'Today' Show Host for Silly Questions!

After pissing him off for calling him "characteristically Frank" in his retirement announcement, Today show host Savannah Guthrie began a series of questions for Congressman Barney Frank which ultimately had him offering a sarcastic congratulations.
Said Frank: "You're 4-for-4 in managing to find the negative approach!"

A-LIST: Gays Now More Popular Than Bankers, Says Barney Frank!

The NYT caught up with Barney Frank before a fundraiser held for him at the intersection of gay and Wall Street:

Mr. Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts, said he had seen a new reality in recent years: the gay community is more popular than Wall Street.

“For years, those of us who are gay” were pilloried just for “being gay,” he said.

In June, Mr. Frank caught flack for holding a fund-raiser at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, one of Wall Street’s most vocal lobbying groups and a frequent critic of Dodd-Frank. JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley all dispatched officials to the event.

Thursday’s event was held at the home of Charles Myers, a senior managing director at Evercore, an independent investment bank. But, as Mr. Frank put it, Mr. Myers is also “a leader in the gay and lesbian community.” Mr. Frank met Mr. Myers at an event for Terrence McNally, the prominent playwright, who also attended Mr. Frank’s fund-raiser.

“The fact that the host is in the financial industry is incidental,” he said.

It's WAR: Barney Frank Rips Newt Gingrich for Suggesting He Should be Jailed!

Barney Frank responds to Newt Gingrich's suggestion in last night's debate that he and Chris Dodd should go to jail for the economic mess the country is in.

Talking Points Memo: “It’s interesting, the charge is failure to stop Newt Gingrich and Tom Delay from deregulating,” he said. “This notion we caused the problem that started while they were in charge even by Gingrich’s standards is very odd.”

Added Frank: “I wish I knew that he was willing to listen to my advice, I would have given him some: I would have told him not to impeach Clinton, I would have told his successors not to go to war with Iraq, and I would have told DeLay not to go on the dance show.”

Frank speculated that Gingrich’s comments were borne out of frustration with his campaign.

“He’s been having a bad year, you know — this self-styled intellectual leader of the free world struggling to stay ahead of Michele Bachmann in the polls is unsettling him so he talks even sillier than he sometimes does,” he said.