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Dec 03, 2006
Articles: 1st openly gay congressman memorialized
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By vanrozenheim
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(BOSTON, USA) - Friends of the nation's first openly gay congressman remembered him Saturday as a man who went to Washington to end the Vietnam War and protect the environment, then became a champion of gay rights.Studds became the first openly gay congressman in 1983 after a sexual encounter with a 17-year-old page 10 years earlier became public. Studds called the relationship "a serious error in judgment" and was censured by Congress, but defended his action as a consensual connection with a young adult.
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