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On the "complicated" side of "evil and complicated" that makes up our show's motto, we present the story of the gravely-voiced Congressman who blazed trails for gay political involvement at the highest levels of power in Washington, only to spend the latter part of his career selling out the left to finance capital and excluding trans people from fights for non-discrimination legislation. Whip-smart, funny, and always ready with a biting comeback, Barney Frank came to embody the transformation of the Democratic Party away from the working class and towards a suburban party preoccupied with shallow diversity rather than true racial and economic justice.\n----more----\nSOURCES:\n\nAloisi, James. \u201cLouise Day Hicks: \u2018You Know Where I Stand.\u2019\u201d CommonWealth Magazine, October 16, 2013. https://commonwealthmagazine.org/politics/012-louise-day-hicks-you-know-where-i-stand/.\n\xa0\nBattenfeld, Joe. \u201cBarney Frank Resurfaces, to the Dismay of Bernie Sanders.\u201d Boston Herald, January 29, 2020. https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/01/28/barney-frank-resurfaces-to-the-dismay-of-bernie-sanders/.\n\xa0\nChotiner, Isaac. \u201cBarney Frank Is Not Impressed By Bernie Sanders.\u201d Slate Magazine, March 30, 2016. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/03/barney-frank-is-not-impressed-by-bernie-sanders.html.\n\xa0\nCottle, Michelle. \u201cBailout.\u201d The New Republic, December 3, 2008. https://newrepublic.com/article/62857/bailout.\n\nDayen, David. Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street\u2019s Great Foreclosure Fraud. New York, NY: The New Press, 2016.\n\n\n\xa0\n\u2014\u2014\u2014. \u201cBank Deregulation 2.0 Is Here.\u201d The American Prospect, July 18, 2018. https://prospect.org/api/content/eaadfd42-4d07-5e1f-b580-4b75f1860cc4/.\n\xa0\n\u2014\u2014\u2014. \u201cDismantling Dodd-Frank -- And More.\u201d The American Prospect, February 6, 2017.\nhttps://prospect.org/api/content/da53d9a4-10ff-57f6-97d0-a09f91c8cbd4/.\n\xa0\nDedman, Bill. \u201cTV Movie Led to Prostitute\u2019s Disclosures.\u201d The Washington Post, August 27, 1989. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/tours/scandal/gobie2.htm.\n\xa0\nFrank, Barney. \u201cMy Life as a Gay Congressman.\u201d Politico Magazone. Accessed April 13, 2020. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/03/barney-frank-life-as-gay-congressman-116027.html.\n\xa0\nGeismer, Lily. Don\u2019t Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014.\xa0\n\xa0\nHenwood, Doug. \u201cRadio Commentary, July 15, 2010.\u201d LBO News from Doug Henwood (blog), July 16, 2010. https://lbo-news.com/2010/07/16/radio-commentary-july-15-2010/.\n\xa0\n\n\nMolloy, Parker. \u201cWhat Barney Frank Still Gets Wrong on ENDA.\u201d The Advocate, October 1, 2014. http://www.advocate.com/commentary/2014/10/01/op-ed-what-barney-frank-still-gets-wrong-enda.\n\n\n\xa0\nSchleier, Curt. \u201cBarney Frank on Being Barney, Not Bernie.\u201d Times of Israel. Accessed April 13, 2020. http://www.timesofisrael.com/barney-frank-on-being-barney-not-bernie/.\n\xa0\nSirota, David. \u201cA \u2018Grand Bargain\u2019...For K Street.\u201d HuffPost (blog), December 8, 2006. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/a-grand-bargainfor-k-stre_b_35853.\n\xa0\n\u2014\u2014\u2014. \u201cFour Reasons to Oppose the Bush-Obama Request for Another $350 Billion Bailout.\u201d Common Dreams. Accessed April 13, 2020. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2009/01/13/four-reasons-oppose-bush-obama-request-another-350-billion-bailout.\n\xa0\nToobin, Jeffrey. \u201cBarney\u2019s Great Adventure.\u201d The New Yorker, January 5, 2009. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/01/12/barneys-great-adventure.\n\xa0\n\nOur intro music is\xa0Arpeggia Colorix\xa0by Yann Terrien, downloaded from WFMU's Free Music Archive and distributed under a Creative Commons\xa0Attribution-ShareAlike License. Our outro music is by DJ\xa0Michaeloswell Graphicsdesigner.