Barney Frank, the longtime Democratic U.S. House member, has died at 86.  He died from congestive heart failure Tuesday evening at his home in Maine. 

Frank was a pioneering gay rights advocate and a leading figure in the effort to recover from the 2008 Great Recession. 

In a 1987 interview, he became the first member of Congress to voluntarily come out as gay. 

His most notable legislation was the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010.