Barney Frank, groundbreaking gay congressman who coauthored key legislation, has died
Barney Frank — a decades-long fixture in Massachusetts Democratic politics, a veteran US House member, a pioneering gay-rights advocate, and a leading figure in the battle to recover from the 2008 Great Recession — has died.
His death was confirmed by Jim Segel, a longtime friend of Mr. Frank’s.
Unlike major Bay State political figures such as Henry Cabot Lodge, John F. Kennedy, and Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill Jr., Mr. Frank was an influential figure in the three dimensions of local, state, and national politics. He left his fingerprints on how Boston is governed, how the Legislature operates on Beacon Hill, and how the House works on Capitol Hill.
His reach also extended into the American economy and the American culture, into how Wall Street operates and how high finance is regulated.
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And in a 1987 Boston Globe interview, he became the first member of Congress to publicly come out as gay voluntarily.
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