"At 86, I've made it longer than I thought. At some point, my heart's just going to give out, and it's reaching that stage. So I'm taking it easy at home and dealing with it by relaxing."
"When I decided, finally, to come out in '87, it just struck me when I did that ... the American people are a lot less homophobic than they thought they were supposed to be."
Barney Frank, the first openly gay member of Congress, is currently in hospice care in Maine due to congestive heart failure. At 86, he reports feeling good with no pain. Frank served in Congress from 1980 to 2013 and is known for the Dodd-Frank Act. He came out as gay in 1987 after a scandal involving a male sex worker. Frank believes that the American public is less homophobic than previously thought, despite ongoing issues with racism.
Read at LGBTQ Nation
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