Barney Frank, Trailblazing Openly Gay US Congressman, Dies at 86

Former US congressman Barney Frank, a prominent figure in the 2008 financial crisis response and one of the first openly gay members of Congress, died Tuesday night at age 86, US media reported.

Frank, who represented southern Massachusetts in the House of Representatives for more than three decades, had been in hospice care at his home in Maine since April.

He will be remembered as a trailblazer for LGBT rights, becoming the first member of Congress to enter a same-sex marriage, and for helping overhaul financial regulations after the 2008 crisis.

“He was, above all else, a wonderful brother. I was lucky to be his sister,” Frank’s sister Doris Breay told NBC Boston.

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