Barney Frank, the combative Massachusetts congressman who helped reshape the U.S. financial system after the 2008 crisis and emerged as a pioneering openly gay voice in national politics, died at the age of 86. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachussets confirmed his death.
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Frank, a Democratic Congressman for nearly 30 years and the first openly gay member of the House, almost undid his career in 1989 after having an affair with Steve Gobie, a male prostitute. Although Frank was single at the time — thus not committing adultery — he did pay someone for sex (with personal funds), which is illegal in his state of Massachusetts. But the poor judgment didn’t end there. Frank hired Gobie to run errands and allowed him to live at his home, where Frank obviously hoped he would be rehabilitated and renounce his life of sin. The only problem: Gobie kept on working as a prostitute — from Frank’s home.
The panel didn’t find enough evidence to back up publicly reported claims that Frank knew Gobie was running a prostitution ring out of the congressman’s Washington apartment or that Frank and Gobie had sex in the House gym.
Absolutely Part of Our Fall.