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Former Rep. Barney Frank, champion of Wall Street reform and gay rights trailblazer, dies at 86
The most prominent gay member of Congress of his generation, the Democrat represented southern Massachusetts in the House for more than 30 years.
Frank represented southern Massachusetts in the House for 32 years and established himself as a leading voice in debates over banking, affordable housing and LGBTQ rights. He chaired the Financial Services Committee amid the 2008 meltdown and co-authored the milestone Dodd-Frank Act, a sweeping law that sought to put Wall Street firms under tougher scrutiny.
He blazed a trail for other openly gay American elected officials, and in 2012, he became the first member of Congress to enter into a same-sex marriage, tying the knot with his longtime partner, Jim Ready.
“It was life-changing, lifesaving for me,” Frank told NBC News in a phone interview in last month.
“I think the key to our having made the enormous progress we made in defeating anti-gay prejudice had to do with us all coming out and people discovering the gap between our reality and the way we were painted,” he added.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/former-rep-barney-frank-champion-wall-street-reform-lgbtq-trailblazer-rcna342642
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