Pioneering LGBT rights leader Barney Frank Dies at 86
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Barney Frank, a longtime liberal Massachusetts congressman and a trailblazer for LGBTQ rights who led the House Financial Services Committee and helped pass the Dodd-Frank financial reform, died at 86 after entering hospice in Ogunquit, Maine. Representing Boston’s suburbs for 32 years, he publicly came out in 1987 and married his partner Jim Ready in 2012, becoming the first incumbent lawmaker to wed a same-sex spouse; his career blended bold activism with pragmatic policymaking, including AIDS funding and efforts to expand LGBT rights while navigating party dynamics.
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