Barney Frank, one of first out gay members of US Congress, dies aged 86

Obama hails Frank as a ‘one of a kind’ LGBTQ+ advocate and key architect of ‘sweeping financial reforms’ US politics live – latest updates Barney Frank, the former US representative who made history as one of the first out gay members of Congress, died on Tuesday night. He was 86. “He was, above all else, a wonderful brother. I was lucky to be his sister,” Doris Breay, Frank’s sister, told NBC10 in Boston on Wednesday morning. Continue reading...

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Barney Frank, one of first out gay members of US Congress, dies aged 86

Obama hails Frank as a ‘one of a kind’ LGBTQ+ advocate and key architect of ‘sweeping financial reforms’

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Barney Frank, the former US representative who made history as one of the first out gay members of Congress, died on Tuesday night. He was 86.

“He was, above all else, a wonderful brother. I was lucky to be his sister,” Doris Breay, Frank’s sister, told NBC10 in Boston on Wednesday morning.

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