NMAH copy purchased with funds from the NMAH Library Endowment. In postwar America, the path to political power for gays and lesbians led through city hall. By the late 1980s, politicians and elected ...

In 2004 the first legal same-sex marriage in America took place in city hall in Cambridge, Massachusetts. President George W. Bush condemned the development, as did Democratic politicians. At the time ...

The Massachusetts congressman was also a champion of Wall Street regulation reform.

In August 2025, the owners of gay dating apps threatened that, if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns its 2015 ruling in favor of same-sex marriage, they'll reveal all the Republican officials and ...

Barney Frank, the longtime Massachusetts congressman who became one of the most visible openly gay politicians in modern U.S. history, has died at age 86. According to multiple reports, Frank died ...