Representative served in Congress for more than three decades.
His momentous career was marked by personal and political achievements; he was the first member of Congress to voluntarily come out as gay, he helped bring about the repeal of Don鈥檛 Ask Don鈥檛 Tell, and he co-authored the far-reaching Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
He recently published a memoir called 鈥溾�� (Farrar, Straus and Giroux/2015).
He is in town to give the 2015 Weil Lecture on American Citizenship at UNC-Chapel Hill in Carroll Hall Auditorium on the UNC campus.
Host Frank Stasio talks to former U.S. Congressman Barney Frank about his storied career in politics and his public lecture, 鈥淚ndispensability Abroad Versus Effective Democratic Governance at Home.鈥�
