During one incident, reported by Talking Points Memo, a protester yelled “Barney, you faggot” as the 69-year-old lawmaker rounded a corner to leave the Longworth House Office Building. A surrounding crowd erupted in laughter.
Frank also confirmed reports that other protesters shouted “homo communist” at him and another told him to “go homo to Massachusetts.”
“I'm disappointed at an unwillingness to be just civil,” Frank told TPM.
“Obviously there are perfectly reasonable people that are against this, but the people out there today on the whole – many of them were hateful and abusive.”
Frank added, “Michele Bachmann's rhetoric is inflammatory as well as wholly baseless.”
“If this was my cause, and I saw this angry group yelling and shouting and being so abusive to people, I would ask them to please stop it. I think they do more harm than good.”
Other sources reported that African-American Democratic lawmakers were also insulted.
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