Barney Frank, trailblazing reformer and LGBTQ rights advocate, dies at 86
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Barney Frank, the Massachusetts Democrat who led post‑Great Recession financial reform and championed LGBTQ rights as one of the first openly gay members of Congress, died May 19 at his home in Ogunquit, Maine, at age 86.
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