and he suggested joe moakley whose office was next to his as the right person for the job.i had written a book about joe moakley previous to this end it was one of the keys for me that decided to go to do this subject. i want to turn to the third major aspect of the career, this was his role as spokesperson for gay-rights. i gave some consideration to calling this book gerry studds:amerigas first portuguese speaking congressman but there might be more dramatic material. here you see studds in july 1983 facing the cameras after being censored for having had an affair with a page ten years earlier. so explain how this transpired. in july 1982, two young pages came forward and said they were being homosexual he harassed by members of congress. and got into front-page news so the congress therefore passed a resolution empowering the ethics committee, the a 6 committee hired a former cabinet officer and high-powered washington lawyer to investigate, immediately came to the conclusion these kids were lying and there was no substance to their charges. however, during the course of