Gerry Studds, American educator and politician (born 1937)

Gerry Studds

American politician (1937–2006)

Gerry Eastman Studds 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, Studds was censured by the House for having sex with a 17-year-old page.