Barney Frank, gay pioneer and liberal stalwart in Congress, dies at 86

Barney Frank, the brassy, lightning-quick former Massachusetts representative who for decades was the most prominent gay politician in the country and who was an author of the most significant overhaul of the nation’s financial regulations since the Great Depression, died Tuesday at his home in Ogunquit, Maine. He was 86.

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