Equality Begins at Home

Hello backers, supporters, and friends! Huffington Post ran a great article on our Indiegogo Campaign today: Everyone Should See Compared to What? The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank Ten percent of the way there.  THANK YOU. Meet Diego Sanchez, PFLAG’s Director of Policy and former Senior Policy Advisor to Congressman Frank. His personal story touched our hearts and we hope will touch yours. STORIES MATTER: Keep in touch with us on Indiegogo Facebook, and at our website Compared to What? to be a part of the journey. Most importantly, please spread the word, post to your Facebook pages and Tweet about our campaign to friends, family and colleagues so that this important conversation can continue. THANK YOU for supporting COMPARED TO WHAT? and we’ll be back with more soon! –Sheila & Michael and the Compared to What?...

We’re on our Way!

Hello backers, supporters, and friends! Yesterday Roll Call -The Source for News on Capitol Hill- featured a story about our Indiegogo campaign to finish Compared to What? The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank: ‘Compared to What’ Team Campaigns to Bring Flick to D.C. And we raised over $6,000 in just a few hours. People are responding to our message that this is a film that must be seen! Let’s keep the momentum going. Do you talk Barneyspeak? Watch Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Tammy Baldwin offer you a lesson: Send us your own Barneyspeak story and we’ll post it on our blog. Keep in touch with us on Indiegogo and Facebook, join our Thunderclap campaign, and visit our website Compared to What? to be a part of the journey. Most importantly, please spread the word, post to your Facebook pages and Tweet about our campaign to friends, family and colleagues so that this important conversation can continue. THANK YOU for supporting COMPARED TO WHAT? and we’ll be back with more soon! –Sheila & Michael and the Compared to What?...

We’re Live!!!

Dear Compared to What supporters and friends, We are thrilled to announce that “Compared to What? The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank“ can now be supported by all of the film’s fans! Today we launched our crowd funding campaign on Indiegogo! Donations to this campaign will go directly to finishing costs of the film so it can be distributed at cinemas and homes around the world. Donors will be honored with tiered rewards, including the following and more: advance copies of the movie access to our other award-winning documentaries a reproduction of an historic gay rights bill introduced by Mr. Frank exclusive behind the scenes footage the famous Neatness poster signed by Mr. Frank one-of-a-kind images of Barney Frank by renowned artist Jon Friedman, whose portrait of Mr. Frank hangs in the U.S. House Financial Services Committee Room and invitations to VIP dinners We are so grateful for the overwhelming support “Compared to What?” has received so far, and we would like to thank all of our backers in advance. This film was made for you! Donate on Indiegogo Sincerely, Sheila and Michael and The Compared to What...

Barney Frank on Practically Everything

(Reuters) – Long a legislative lion for Democrats, Barney Frank retired from Congress two years ago. But he remains famously shrewd and caustic, feisty and funny, as well as the most prominent gay politician in the nation. With current roiling debate over the financial reform that Frank helped to legislate, along with his frequent appearances on CNBC and the publication of his memoirs in March, he’s back in the spotlight....

Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine Screenings

We are very excited for our friends Michele & Liam, filmmakers of Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine, which will hit select theaters next month! (http://mattshepardisafriendofmine.com/screenings) There is a moving scene in Compared to What: The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank-documentary film where Barney Frank speaks at Matthew Shepard’s vigil in...