Sixty years ago, my college roommates and I had the great good fortune to be assigned to a dorm whose five resident tutors included a 25-year-old Bayonne-born cigar chomping grad student named Barney Frank. Although he was an order of magnitude smarter and more important, we had a lot in common (I, too, am a left-handed, Jewish, gay Democrat) and enjoyed a 60-year friendship. I thought yesterday’s New York Times obit was magnificent: Barney Frank, Gay Pioneer and Liberal Stalwart in Congress, Dies at 86 Subhead: Often voted the “brainiest,” “funniest” and “most eloquent” member of the House, he was also the first to come out voluntarily and helped normalize being openly gay in public office.…