Barney Frank, a trailblazing openly gay congressman and namesake of the Dodd-Frank Act, has died at 86.
The former congressman was politically engaged until the end. As GBH reports, Even in hospice, Frank was actively working to spread the message of his forthcoming book, "The Hard Path to Unity: Why We ...
“This country has never had a congressman like Barney Frank, and the House of Representatives will not be the same without him,” President Barack Obama said at the time of his retirement.
Barney Frank has died. The longtime Democratic congressman from Massachusetts was a leading liberal who brought new visibility to gay rights.
Former 16-term Democratic Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank died of congestive heart failure Tuesday at the age of 86. First ...
Frank publicly came out six years into his congressional tenure, in 1987, and would remain the most prominent gay politician on Capitol Hill until his 2013 retirement ...
A lifelong liberal Zionist and the first openly gay member of Congress, Frank campaigned for rights for gay soldiers, using ...
Barney Frank was remembered at a memorial service Monday as a representative of keen intellect and wit, whose influence ...
The quick-witted Democrat was the first member of Congress to voluntarily come out as gay, and the first to enter a same-*** marriage while in office.
The most prominent gay member of Congress of his generation, the Democrat represented southern Massachusetts in the House for ...