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Rep. Barney Frank to marry longtime partner

Thursday, January 26, 2012

FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2010 file photo, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., right, thanks his partner Jim Ready at a party in Newton, Mass., after Frank won re-election in the 4th Congressional District. A spokesman for Frank confirmed Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012, that Frank a gay pioneer in Congress, plans to marry Ready, his longtime partner from Maine. Frank is retiring from Congress at the end of the 2012 term. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds, File)

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by ANDREW MIGA Associated Press

WASHINGTON - January 26, 2011 (WPVI) -- Retiring Massachusetts congressman Barney Frank, a gay pioneer in Congress, plans to marry his longtime partner Jim Ready of Maine.

A spokesman for Frank confirmed Thursday that the congressman's wedding will be in Massachusetts, but said no date had been set.

The Democrat announced last fall that he was retiring at the end of his 16th term.