Rep. Barney Frank to marry partner Jim Ready

by Staff Writer on January 27, 2012

Rep. Barney Frank, the first member of Congress to announce voluntarily that he was gay, will marry his partner in a Massachusetts ceremony, the lawmaker’s spokesman said Thursday.

Frank, 71, a Massachusetts Democrat, is not running for re-election when his term expires at the end of the year. He will marry Jim Ready, 42, his partner since the spring of 2007. Ready of Ogunquit, Maine, has a small business doing custom awnings, carpentry, painting, welding and other handyman services, said Frank spokesman Harry Gural.

Massachusetts legalized same-sex marriage in 2004. Gural did not give a date for the wedding.

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Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times via SF Gate, January 27, 2012