Barney Frank, the liberal icon and gay-rights trailblazer who represented Massachusetts’ 4th congressional district for more than three decades, is currently in hospice care in Ogonguit, Maine, where he lives with his husband Jim Ready.
Frank is also awaiting the publication of his new book by Yale University Press, titled “The Hard Path to Unity: Why We Must Reform the Left to Rescue Democracy.” The book is scheduled to come out in mid-September, but Frank is already engaged on a publicity tour of sorts, describing the book’s central arguments to an array of media outlets in recent days.
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