Influential gay Democrat Barney Frank dies at age 86

Barney Frank, the powerful former Massachusetts congressman who left his imposing stamp on the nation's financial system, has died at age 86, according to family.Frank was the first member of Congress to be openly gay, and he used his platform to push the Democratic Party to the left on LGBTQ+ issues before the term "LGBTQ+" even existed.'Most Democrats agree with me,' said Frank. 'But they’ve been intimidated out of saying so.'After the great global financial meltdown in 2008, Frank was the arc...