Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts
In office January 3, 1973 – January 3, 1997
Preceded by
Hastings Keith
Succeeded by
Bill Delahunt
Constituency
12th district (1973–1983) 10th district (1983–1997)
Personal details
Born
Gerry Eastman Studds
(1937-05-12)May 12, 1937 Mineola, New York, U.S.
Died
October 14, 2006(2006-10-14) (aged 69) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Political party
Democratic
Spouse
Dean Hara
(m. 2004)
Education
Yale University (BA, MA)
Gerry Studds's voice
Studds, as chair of the House Merchant Marine Committee, speaks in support of H.R.4615, the Olympic Experimental State Forest Act Recorded August 11, 1992
Gerry Eastman Studds (/ˈɡɛri/; May 12, 1937 – October 14, 2006) was an American Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts who served from 1973 until 1997. He was the first member of Congress to be openly gay. In 1983 he was censured by the House of Representatives after he admitted to what he described as a "consensual relationship" with a 17-year-old page.
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first openly gay member of the United States House of Representatives, GerryStudds, in 1972 and in 2004, Massachusetts became the first state to allow same-sex...
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a state legislature (Elaine Noble, 1975), first out congressperson (GerryStudds, 1983), first congressperson to voluntarily come out (Barney Frank, 1987)...
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20, 1983, Representatives Dan Crane, a Republican from Illinois, and GerryStudds, a Democrat from Massachusetts, were censured by the House of Representatives...
teacher, he began his political career as an organizer for Congressman GerryStudds, and gained note as an organizer for Ted Kennedy in the 1980 Iowa primaries...
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among those calling for the expulsion of representatives Dan Crane and GerryStudds. Gingrich supported a proposal to ban loans from the International Monetary...
Sarah McLachlan, and Rufus Wainwright. In 1983, US House representative GerryStudds came out as a homosexual during the 1983 congressional page sex scandal...
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