Can’t find info on whether that’s the case but did find this
http://www.advocate.com/Politics/Politicians/Harrumph!/
2009:
>>When I joined Frank and Ready for dinner two days earlier at the Cheesecake Factory in Newton, Frank spent much of the meal smiling and fawning over Ready. The two became a couple three years ago when Ready pursued Frank at a gay political fund-raiser in Maine, where Ready still lives. “I’ve had a crush on Barney for 20 years,” he told me, rubbing Frank’s back.
>>The happy couple are back at it this morning, playfully debating which local anchormen are gay (“It’s pretty clear that all male weathermen are gay,” Frank says) and poking fun at Frank for not knowing how to use the Internet. “It’s probably for the best, because Barney would somehow manage to break the Internet,” Ready says with a chuckle. “He breaks everything.”
>>“I’m very clumsy,” Frank concedes, tying his tie. “I just get frustrated when something doesn’t work, so I’ll just start banging on it. ”
>>As we wait for Frank’s driver—a gay police officer named Steve Morin — to pick us up and drive us to polling places where the congressman will greet voters...
I hope the Passamaquoddy and Kennebec shamans can come up with some sort of purification ritual ... maybe we can get things running right now that this Ready fellow is to become a Masshole.