Pioneering gay Rep. Barney Frank made bombshell claim about Donald Trump on his deathbed

In 2012, he made history as the first member of Congress to marry a same-sex partner, when he wed his longtime partner, Jim Ready.

“It was life-changing, lifesaving for me,” Frank told NBC News last month. “I think the key to our having made the enormous progress we made in defeating anti-gay prejudice had to do with us all coming out and people discovering the gap between our reality and the way we were painted.

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