Former US congressman Barney Frank who famously took on Wall Street and made himself one of the first known openly-gay representatives died on Tuesday night, US media reports. He was 86.
Frank, who represented southern Massachusetts in the House of Representatives for over three decades, had been living in hospice at his home in Maine since April.
He will be remembered as a trailblaser, for LGBT rights, as the first member of Congress to enter into a same-sex marriage, and for helping to overhaul financial regulations after the 2008 financial crisis.
“He was, above all else, a wonderful brother. I was lucky to be his sister,” Frank’s sister Doris Breay told NBC Boston.
