AND THEN THERE WAS FRANK
Representative Barney Frank criticizes the Human Rights Campaign's contribution to the National Republican Campaign Committee, calling it "stupid"  and suggesting that this money will go to Dick Armey and Newt Gingrich and their anti-gay agenda ("And Then There Was Frank," by Claudia Dreifus, Feb. 4).
It is disappointing to see him mischaracterize the contribution.
The facts are these: Out of $1 million to be donated in the 1995 and '96 election cycle, the Human Rights Campaign made a single $5,000 contribution to the N.R.C.C., specifically to support Republicans who believe that lesbians and  gay men should not be discriminated against and who, like most Americans, want a strong response to the AIDS epidemic.
Though I am a committed supporter of the Democratic Party, freedom and equal  rights for lesbian and gay Americans are not questions of party affiliation and  should never be relegated to mere partisan concerns.
FRED P. HOCHBERG New York
Co-Chairman, Human Rights Campaign Public Policy Committee