Barney Frank, liberal icon who regulated a ‘too big’ financial industry, dies at 86

sexuality in 1987 made him the most prominent gay man in Washington during the height of the AIDS epidemic.

While many thought it could be a political career-ender at the time, Frank would later say he regretted he did not come out sooner.

“I am a much better openly gay man than I was a closeted one,” he told Men’s Journal in a 2017 interview.

Frank advocated continue reading …