Massachusetts congressional candidate Sean Bielat had an unusual backstage exchange last week with James Ready, longtime partner of Bielat's opponent, Rep. Barney Frank. Ready snapped photos and told Bielat to "get used to" the attention. Bielat was confused! Video below.

After a federal judge yesterday ordered the military to stop enforcing Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Rep. Barney Frank called for the Obama administration to wait to appeal the ruling until after Congress can repeal the policy in a lame-duck session.

Rep. Barney Frank apparently got all hot and bothered over a denied $1 senior discount for a Fire Island ferry. What did he expect? He forgot his Suffolk County Senior Citizens ID! There are regulations in this world, Barney Frank.

[Democratic leaders hover over President Obama as he signs the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform bill into law today. Neither Chris Dodd nor Barney Frank interrupted with an "Oh shit I forgot something," so, phew. Image via Getty.]

Kathy Griffin called Scott Brown's daughters "prostitutes." This was not a funny joke, and now Kathy Griffin has been called out by Barney Frank even though he's gay and Kathy Griffin is the world's most fearless crusader for gay rights.

House and Senate conferees reached a deal on a final financial regulatory reform package last night (this morning?) at 5:39 a.m., with junk food wrappers strewn about the hallowed chamber. What were the final agreements in this, the Dodd-Frank bill?

JP Morgan's mortgage chief David Lowman yesterday told Rep. Barney Frank that he wanted people who were concerned about home foreclosures to "come to me." He had no idea he would be chased off Capitol Hill by an angry mob.

A pair of drunk Republican eye-doctors were seated near Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) on a flight from Los Angeles to Boston, and they harassed the poor man until his partner stood up to call them bitches, which they probably were.

What is truth? How do we know what we know? Philosophers have struggled with these questions for centuries, but Republicans have found an answer: if it wasn't filmed and uploaded to YouTube by a Teabagger, it didn't happen. Period.

Tea party protesters, on Capitol hill to rail against healthcare reform that will benefit them, and stoked up by speeches from Republican lawmakers, unleashed abuse and spit against black and gay members of congress.

Time's excellent article about gay politicians in Europe faring better than in American cites three Ministers of Culture. It may be easier across the pond, but they're still just asking gays for which Broadway show to see.

Every city gets the Real World it deserves. The show finally settles in the nation's capital and like its host city, everything is especially earnest. But it's the eight strangers who really show us what this town is like.

After his Details shoot with a naked woman and talking about his deep lady love, Adam Lambert continues to do a shitty job convincing us he has any interest in female genitalia. This time it's for homo mag Out.

No one wants to be ACORN's friend anymore. Not even Barney Frank. Or the IRS. But, never fear, because the group still has some fighting spirit: it's suing James O'Keefe III, the filmmaker who shot those sexy pimp videos.

U.S. Rep Barney Frank is gay, zany, and he says sassy things on TV. He's just like a Bravo reality show personality! But that doesn't mean Andy Cohen had to treat him like one.

Just for the record, this is a real screenshot of BravoTV.com, taken like a minute ago. Do you have a question for Rachel Zoe's assistant, a Real Housewife, or the head of the House Financial Services committee? Ask Bravo!

The woman Barney Frank yelled at was, it turns out, a Lyndon LaRouche cultist. This means you can't criticize Republicans for fear-mongering and outrageously inappropriate demagoguery!

Last night Barney Frank held a health care town hall meeting in Massachusetts. Near the end, a woman stepped to the podium and asked, "Why do you continue to support a Nazi policy?" Frank then eviscerated her completely.

Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, a life-long piece of work, is going to spend the August congressional recess surfing with Barney Frank. We're guessing it'll be weird?

At a fundraiser yesterday, VP Joe Biden tried, fruitlessly, to appease a gay community enraged by Barack Obama's not caring about their issues all that much. He is "not unaware of the controversy!"