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- LARRY KRAMER IS STILL THE ANGRIT GAY MAN THE WORLD
- LARRY {LOR:#595959;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:600;MARG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:0.875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.2;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:1.25REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.2;}} A{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:HER;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;} A:HOVER{LOR:#A00000;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}LARRY KRAMER WAS A WRER AND ACTIVIST WHO DREW ATTENTN TO THE AIDS CRISIS THAT DISPROPORTNATELY KILLED GAY MEN AND TRANS WOMEN THE 1980S AND ‘{MARG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0.3125REM;LOR:#323232;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-SIZE:0.75REM;LE-HEIGHT:1;FONT-WEIGHT:800;} SPAN{LE-HEIGHT:1.6;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;}{FONT-STYLE:NORMAL;PADDG-RIGHT:0.3125REM;FONT-FAY:RALAS,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;LOR:#323232;FONT-SIZE:0.75REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.3;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;TEXT-TRANSFORM:PALIZE;}{PADDG-RIGHT:0.3125REM;FONT-FAY:RALAS,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;LOR:#323232;FONT-SIZE:0.75REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.3;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;TEXT-TRANSFORM:PALIZE;}BY {DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;MARG-LEFT:0.625REM;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-SIZE:0.75REM;LE-HEIGHT:1;FONT-WEIGHT:800;}UPDATED: JUL 13, {DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;}{MARG-BOTTOM:0.9375REM;POSN:RELATIVE;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 64REM){{MAX-WIDTH:LC(100VW - (1REM * 2));MARG-LEFT:1REM;MARG-RIGHT:1REM;} .E152U5OS0{WIDTH:100VW;MARG-LEFT:LC(-1 * 1REM);}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM) AND (MAX-WIDTH: 61.25REM){{MARG-LEFT:TO;MARG-RIGHT:TO;} .E152U5OS0{WIDTH:100VW;MARG-LEFT:LC((100VW - (LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM) - 2 * 1REM)) / -2);}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 61.25REM) AND (MAX-WIDTH: 90REM){{MAX-WIDTH:LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM);MARG-LEFT:LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM) - 1REM - 20.625REM) / 2);PADDG-LEFT:1REM;PADDG-RIGHT:1REM;} .E152U5OS0{WIDTH:100VW;MARG-LEFT:LC(LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM) - 1REM - 20.625REM) / -2) - 1REM);}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 90REM){{MARG-LEFT:LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM)) / 2);MAX-WIDTH:LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM);PADDG-LEFT:1REM;PADDG-RIGHT:1REM;} .E152U5OS0{WIDTH:100VW;MARG-LEFT:LC(LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 + 1REM)) / -2) - LC(2 * 1REM));}[DATA-HAS-SPONSOR] {MARG-LEFT:LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM)) / 4);MARG-RIGHT:LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM)) / 4);}}{JTIFY-SELF:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{MARG-LEFT:-50VW;MARG-RIGHT:-50VW;WIDTH:100VW;LEFT:50%;RIGHT:50%;}}{HEIGHT:TO;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{MARG:TO LC(50% - 50VW);}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{MARG:TO;}}{POSN:RELATIVE;HEIGHT:TO;}{POSN:RELATIVE;--POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:TO;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;HEIGHT:TO;} A{POSN:ABSOLUTE;}{POSN:RELATIVE;WIDTH:100%;HEIGHT:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;VERTIL-ALIGN:TOP;}{BACKGROUND:#C92228;BOTTOM:0;PADDG:.5REM;RIGHT:0;}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 64REM){{PADDG:0.39REM;}}{DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:1REM;WIDTH:1REM;}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 64REM){{WIDTH:1.063REM;HEIGHT:1.063REM;}}{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-SIZE:1.1875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.6;PADDG-LEFT:0REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0REM;POSN:RELATIVE;}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{PADDG-LEFT:3.5REM;PADDG-RIGHT:3.5REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM) AND (MAX-WIDTH: 61.25REM){{MAX-WIDTH:45.25REM;MARG-LEFT:TO;MARG-RIGHT:TO;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 61.25REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 73.75REM) AND (MAX-WIDTH: 100REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 90REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0REM;}} EM{FONT-STYLE:ALIC;FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;} STRONG{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;}{CLEAR:BOTH;NTENT:" ";DISPLAY:BLOCK;FONT-SIZE:0.7REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.5REM;HEIGHT:0REM;VISIBILY:HIDN;}{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-SIZE:1.1875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.6;} STRONG{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;} EM{FONT-STYLE:ALIC;FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;}(1935-2020){LOR:#323232;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:800;LETTER-SPACG:0.02EM;MARG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;MARG-TOP:0.625REM;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:1.875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.1;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:2REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.1;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 64REM){{FONT-SIZE:2REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.1;}} B, STRONG{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;} EM, I{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-STYLE:ALIC;}WHO IS LARRY KRAMER?DURG THE 1980S, LARRY KRAMER -FOUND THE GAY MEN’S HEALTH CRISIS TO SUPPORT AND ADVOTE FOR MEN WH AIDS AND WROTE {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}THE NORMAL HEART, A SEMI-TOBGRAPHIL PLAY ABOUT THE AIDS EPIMIC. IN 1987, HE HELPED START ACT UP, A RADIL ACTIVIST ANIZATN THAT SUCCSFULLY PHED THE FOOD AND DG ADMISTRATN TO SPEED UP DG REARCH TRIALS TO TREAT AIDS.WHERE WAS LARRY KRAMER BORN?LRENCE DAVID KRAMER WAS BORN BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, ON JUNE 25, 1935, TO A JEWISH FAY. AS A CHILD, HIS FAY MOVED TO MOUNT RAIER, MARYLAND, AND LATER TO WASHGTON, D.C., WHEN HE WAS A TEENAGER.EARLY LIFETHE LATE 1940S AND EARLY ‘50S WAS A PERD OF FIERCE MORAL PANIC AROUND SAME-SEX ATTRACTN, AND WAS DURG THIS TIME THAT KRAMER BEGAN TO UNRSTAND HE WAS GAY. KRAMER SURVIVED A SUICI ATTEMPT DURG HIS FIRST SEMTER OF LLEGE AT YALE AND LATER HAD HIS FIRST GAY RELATNSHIP WH A MALE PROFSOR. IN LLEGE, HE VELOPED HIS PASSN FOR THEATER. HE GRADUATED OM YALE 1957 WH A BACHELOR’S GREE ENGLISH.EARLY WRG CAREERAFTER LLEGE, KRAMER PURSUED A REER FILM. IN THE EARLY 1960S, HE MOVED TO LONDON TO WORK FOR COLUMBIA PICTUR ON MOVI LIKE LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) AND DR. STRANGELOVE (1964). HE ADAPTED D.H. LAWRENCE’S 1920 NOVEL WOMEN LOVE TO THE SCREENPLAY FOR THE 1969 MOVIE OF THE SAME NAME, EARNG HIMSELF AN AMY AWARD NOMATN FOR BT ADAPTED SCREENPLAY.IN THE EARLY 1970S, KRAMER MOVED TO NEW YORK CY AND BEGAN TO FOC ON PLAYWRG, AND LATER FICTN. HIS FIRST NOVEL, FAGGOTS (1978), WAS MERCIALLY SUCCSFUL, YET NTROVERSIAL AMONG GAY MEN. SOME CRICS FELT THAT RERCED STEREOTYP OF GAY MEN AS PROMISCUO AND DG-G WHILE SHAMG GAY MEN WHO HAD SEX WH MULTIPLE PARTNERS.AIDS ACTIVISM AND WRGON JULY 3, 1981, THE NEW YORK TIM RAN A STARTLG HEADLE: “RARE CANCER SEEN 41 HOMOSEXUALS.” THE ARTICLE REPORTED THAT AT LEAST EIGHT OF THE PEOPLE HAD ALREADY DIED.THIS RARE NCER WAS KAPOSI’S SARA, WHICH N VELOP PEOPLE WH WEAKENED IMMUNE SYSTEMS. AT THE TIME, DOCTORS AND SCIENTISTS DIDN’T REALIZE THAT THE 41 PEOPLE WERE FECTED BY HIV (HUMAN IMMUNOFICIENCY VIS) AND HAD VELOPED THE NDN WE NOW KNOW AS AIDS (ACQUIRED IMMUNOFICIENCY SYNDROME).KRAMER WAS EPLY NCERNED ABOUT THE ILLNS, WHICH PEOPLE OUTSI THE QUEER MUNY BEGAN TO REFER TO AS “GAY NCER.” ONE MONTH AFTER THE TIM ARTICLE, HE ANIZED A MEETG OF GAY MEN TO RAISE FUNDS FOR REARCH TO WHAT WAS G THE EPIMIC AND HOW TO TREAT . THE GROUP RAISED $6,635 FOR REARCH AT A TIME WHEN THERE WAS SENTIALLY NO NEW FUNDG TO STUDY THE GROWG HEALTH CRISIS.GAY MEN’S HEALTH CRISISANGRY OVER MEDIL AND POLIL LEARS’ NTUED LACK OF RPONSE TO THE ILLNS AND ATHS, KRAMER -FOUND THE GAY MEN’S HEALTH CRISIS NEW YORK CY JANUARY 1982. THAT YEAR, THE ANIZATN RAISED SOME $50,000 FOR MEDIL REARCH AND STARTED A HOTLE FOR PEOPLE WH QUTNS ABOUT THE HEALTH CRISIS. THE FIRST NIGHT THE HOTLE WAS OPEN, RECEIVED AROUND 100 LLS.THAT SEPTEMBER, THE CDC (THEN KNOWN AS THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL) FALLY GAVE A NAME TO THE MYSTER AND ADLY NDN VELOPG AMONG GAY MEN AND TRANS WOMEN: AIDS. STILL, KRAMER WAS DISTURBED BY HOW LTLE MEDIL ANIZATNS AND POLICIANS WERE DOG TO ADDRS THE EPIMIC.IN 1983, HE RIGNED OM THE GAY MEN’S HEALTH CRISIS OVER DISAGREEMENTS ABOUT HOW AGGRSIVE THE ANIZATN SHOULD BE MANDG ACTN ON THE AIDS CRISIS. THAT SAME YEAR, HE WROTE A STHG OP-ED THE NEW YORK NATIVE TLED “1,112 AND COUNTG”—A REFERENCE TO THE NUMBER OF KNOWN AIDS PATIENTS AT THAT TIME.“IF THIS ARTICLE DON'T ROE YOU TO ANGER, FURY, RAGE AND ACTN, GAY MEN MAY HAVE NO FUTURE ON THIS EARTH,” HE WROTE. “OUR NTUED EXISTENCE PENDS ON JT HOW ANGRY YOU N GET.”'THE NORMAL HEART'KRAMER ED HIS EXPERIENC WH AIDS ACTIVISM TO WRE HIS MOST FAMO STAGE PLAY, THE NORMAL HEART, WHICH PREMIERED OFF-BROADWAY 1985. THE SEMI-TOBGRAPHIL PLAY TOLD THE STORY OF NED WEEKS, A GAY JEWISH WRER AND ACTIVIST HORRIFIED TO SEE A MYSTER DISEASE SPREADG AMONG GAY MEN.THE WELL-RECEIVED PLAY HAS HAD MANY NS SCE S 1985 BUT AND WAS ADAPTED TO A 2014 HBO MOVIE OF THE SAME NAME. KRAMER FOLLOWED WH A SEQUEL ABOUT WEEKS LLED THE DTY OF ME, WHICH PREMIERED OFF-BROADWAY 1992 AND WAS A FALIST FOR THE 1993 PULZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA.ACT UPIN 1987, KRAMER HELPED FOUND A RADIL ACTIVIST ANIZATN LLED ACT UP, WHICH STOOD FOR “AIDS COALN TO UNLEASH POWER.” FSTRATED BY THE NTUED ACTN ON AIDS REARCH AND TREATMENTS, ACT UP SOUGHT TO FORCE MEDIL AND POLIL LEARS TO DO JT THAT. ITS SLOGAN WAS “SILENCE = DEATH,” REFERRG TO THE CREASG NUMBERS OF GAY MEN AND TRANS WOMEN DYG OF AIDS. BY THIS TIME, KRAMER HAD ALREADY SEEN MANY OF HIS IENDS DIE OM AIDS-RELATED ILLNS. IN 1988, KRAMER LEARNED THAT HE, TOO, HAD NTRACTED HIV.ACT UP’S DISPTIVE TACTICS SUCCEED DRAWG ATTENTN TO THE AIDS CRISIS, FORCG THOSE POWER TO TAKE ACTN. IN 1989, MEMBERS OF ACT UP CHAED THEMSELV TO THE VIP BALNY OF THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE TO PROTT BURROUGHS WELLE, THE PANY THAT OWNED THE ONLY FDA-APPROVED TREATMENT FOR AIDS AND WAS SELLG THE DG AT AN EXORBANT PRICE. THE PROTT DISPTED THE STOCK EXCHANGE’S OPENG BELL FOR THE FIRST TIME HISTORY. SEVERAL DAYS AFTER THE PROTT, THE PANY LOWERED THE PRICE OF THE DG, KNOWN AS AZT.ANTHONY FCI, WHO BEME DIRECTOR OF THE NATNAL INSTUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECT DISEAS 1984 AND WAS A EQUENT SUBJECT OF KRAMER’S CRICISM, HAS PRAISED KRAMER FOR SPARKG CHANG THE U.S. MEDIL TABLISHMENT. KRAMER AND ACT UP’S ACTIVISM PHED FCI AND OTHER NATNAL INSTUT OF HEALTH OFFICIALS TO NSULT WH AIDS PATIENTS DURG NEW DG VELOPMENT AND GIVE THEM A VOICE CLIL TRIALS—CHANG THAT THE NIH ADOPTED STUDI OF OTHER DISEAS, TOO. IN ADDN, THE FDA SPED UP THE APPROVAL PROCS FOR NEW TREATMENTS FOR PEOPLE WH HIV AND AIDS.LATER LIFEKRAMER’S HIV DID NOT VELOP TO AIDS, BUT DID AFFECT HIS HEALTH AND THE MEDIL RE HE WAS ABLE TO RECEIVE. IN 2001, KRAMER STGGLED TO GET A LIVER REPLACEMENT BEE, AS SOMEONE WH HIV, MEDIL OFFICIALS NSIRED HIM TO BE A LOW PRRY FOR REPLACEMENT. AROUND THE TIME HE FALLY DID RECEIVE A NEW LIVER, THE ASSOCIATED PRS ACCINTALLY PUBLISHED A HEADLE FALSELY REPORTG THAT HE HAD DIED.IN 2013, TWO YEARS AFTER NEW YORK STATE LEGALIZED GAY MARRIAGE, KRAMER MARRIED HIS LONGTIME PARTNER DAVID WEBSTER A NEW YORK CY HOSPAL WHERE KRAMER WAS REVERG OM RECENT SURGERY. KRAMER AND WEBSTER FIRST DATED THE 1970S AND THEN STARTED DATG AGA THE 1990S. KRAMER NTUED TO SPEAK OUT ABOUT THE GLOBAL HIV AND AIDS CRISIS, WHICH HAS LED TO MORE THAN 39 LN ATHS.KRAMER DIED OF PNMONIA ON MAY 27, 2020, NEW YORK CY AT AGE {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK {FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-SIZE:1.1875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.6;MARG:0.9375REM 0 0 0.625REM;PADDG:0 0 0 1.25REM;}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{MARG:0.9375REM 0;}} B, STRONG{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;} EM{FONT-STYLE:ALIC;FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;} EM, I{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-STYLE:ALIC;} LI{PADDG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;} STRONG{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;} LI::MARKER{LOR:#323232;}BIRTH YEAR: 1935BIRTH DATE: JUNE 25, 1935BIRTH STATE: CONNECTICUTBIRTH CY: BRIDGEPORTBIRTH COUNTRY: UNED STATBT KNOWN FOR: LARRY KRAMER WAS A WRER AND ACTIVIST WHO DREW ATTENTN TO THE AIDS CRISIS THAT DISPROPORTNATELY KILLED GAY MEN AND TRANS WOMEN THE 1980S AND ‘90S.INDTRIWRG AND PUBLISHGPOLICSASTROLOGIL SIGN: CANCERINTERTG FACTSOCCUPATNSACTIVISTWRERDEATH YEAR: 2020DEATH DATE: MAY 27, 2020DEATH CY: NEW YORK CYDEATH COUNTRY: UN STATFACT CHECK
LARRY KRAMER IS STILL THE ANGRIT GAY MAN THE WORLD
Larry Kramer, the wrer and fluential gay activist, has died. * kramer gay writer *
Larry Kramer, the wrer and fluential gay activist who prsed the U. Spurred by the onset of the AIDS epimic the early 1980s, Kramer beme a fierce activist and an impassned wrer, and one of the earlit and most vol advot for AIDS rearch, treatment accs and stutnal regnn of the gay muny so hard-h by the disease. He is bt known not only as one of the founrs of both Gay Men’s Health Crisis and ACT UP, but also as the wrer of novels and plays cludg his 1985 work “The Normal Heart, ” his urgent, agprop pictn of the early days of the AIDS crisis.
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IN 1987, HE HELPED START ACT UP, A RADIL ACTIVIST ANIZATN THAT SUCCSFULLY PHED THE FOOD AND DG ADMISTRATN TO SPEED UP DG REARCH TRIALS TO TREAT AIDS.WHERE WAS LARRY KRAMER BORN?LRENCE DAVID KRAMER WAS BORN BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, ON JUNE 25, 1935, TO A JEWISH FAY. AS A CHILD, HIS FAY MOVED TO MOUNT RAIER, MARYLAND, AND LATER TO WASHGTON, D.C., WHEN HE WAS A TEENAGER.EARLY LIFETHE LATE 1940S AND EARLY ‘50S WAS A PERD OF FIERCE MORAL PANIC AROUND SAME-SEX ATTRACTN, AND WAS DURG THIS TIME THAT KRAMER BEGAN TO UNRSTAND HE WAS GAY. KRAMER SURVIVED A SUICI ATTEMPT DURG HIS FIRST SEMTER OF LLEGE AT YALE AND LATER HAD HIS FIRST GAY RELATNSHIP WH A MALE PROFSOR. IN LLEGE, HE VELOPED HIS PASSN FOR THEATER. HE GRADUATED OM YALE 1957 WH A BACHELOR’S GREE ENGLISH.EARLY WRG CAREERAFTER LLEGE, KRAMER PURSUED A REER FILM. IN THE EARLY 1960S, HE MOVED TO LONDON TO WORK FOR COLUMBIA PICTUR ON MOVI LIKE LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) AND DR. STRANGELOVE (1964). HE ADAPTED D.H. LAWRENCE’S 1920 NOVEL WOMEN LOVE TO THE SCREENPLAY FOR THE 1969 MOVIE OF THE SAME NAME, EARNG HIMSELF AN AMY AWARD NOMATN FOR BT ADAPTED SCREENPLAY.IN THE EARLY 1970S, KRAMER MOVED TO NEW YORK CY AND BEGAN TO FOC ON PLAYWRG, AND LATER FICTN. HIS FIRST NOVEL, FAGGOTS (1978), WAS MERCIALLY SUCCSFUL, YET NTROVERSIAL AMONG GAY MEN. SOME CRICS FELT THAT RERCED STEREOTYP OF GAY MEN AS PROMISCUO AND DG-G WHILE SHAMG GAY MEN WHO HAD SEX WH MULTIPLE PARTNERS.AIDS ACTIVISM AND WRGON JULY 3, 1981, THE NEW YORK TIM RAN A STARTLG HEADLE: “RARE CANCER SEEN 41 HOMOSEXUALS.” THE ARTICLE REPORTED THAT AT LEAST EIGHT OF THE PEOPLE HAD ALREADY DIED.THIS RARE NCER WAS KAPOSI’S SARA, WHICH N VELOP PEOPLE WH WEAKENED IMMUNE SYSTEMS. AT THE TIME, DOCTORS AND SCIENTISTS DIDN’T REALIZE THAT THE 41 PEOPLE WERE FECTED BY HIV (HUMAN IMMUNOFICIENCY VIS) AND HAD VELOPED THE NDN WE NOW KNOW AS AIDS (ACQUIRED IMMUNOFICIENCY SYNDROME).KRAMER WAS EPLY NCERNED ABOUT THE ILLNS, WHICH PEOPLE OUTSI THE QUEER MUNY BEGAN TO REFER TO AS “GAY NCER.” ONE MONTH AFTER THE TIM ARTICLE, HE ANIZED A MEETG OF GAY MEN TO RAISE FUNDS FOR REARCH TO WHAT WAS G THE EPIMIC AND HOW TO TREAT . THE GROUP RAISED $6,635 FOR REARCH AT A TIME WHEN THERE WAS SENTIALLY NO NEW FUNDG TO STUDY THE GROWG HEALTH CRISIS.GAY MEN’S HEALTH CRISISANGRY OVER MEDIL AND POLIL LEARS’ NTUED LACK OF RPONSE TO THE ILLNS AND ATHS, KRAMER -FOUND THE GAY MEN’S HEALTH CRISIS NEW YORK CY JANUARY 1982. THAT YEAR, THE ANIZATN RAISED SOME $50,000 FOR MEDIL REARCH AND STARTED A HOTLE FOR PEOPLE WH QUTNS ABOUT THE HEALTH CRISIS. THE FIRST NIGHT THE HOTLE WAS OPEN, RECEIVED AROUND 100 LLS.THAT SEPTEMBER, THE CDC (THEN KNOWN AS THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL) FALLY GAVE A NAME TO THE MYSTER AND ADLY NDN VELOPG AMONG GAY MEN AND TRANS WOMEN: AIDS. STILL, KRAMER WAS DISTURBED BY HOW LTLE MEDIL ANIZATNS AND POLICIANS WERE DOG TO ADDRS THE EPIMIC.IN 1983, HE RIGNED OM THE GAY MEN’S HEALTH CRISIS OVER DISAGREEMENTS ABOUT HOW AGGRSIVE THE ANIZATN SHOULD BE MANDG ACTN ON THE AIDS CRISIS. THAT SAME YEAR, HE WROTE A STHG OP-ED THE NEW YORK NATIVE TLED “1,112 AND COUNTG”—A REFERENCE TO THE NUMBER OF KNOWN AIDS PATIENTS AT THAT TIME.“IF THIS ARTICLE DON'T ROE YOU TO ANGER, FURY, RAGE AND ACTN, GAY MEN MAY HAVE NO FUTURE ON THIS EARTH,” HE WROTE. “OUR NTUED EXISTENCE PENDS ON JT HOW ANGRY YOU N GET.”'THE NORMAL HEART'KRAMER ED HIS EXPERIENC WH AIDS ACTIVISM TO WRE HIS MOST FAMO STAGE PLAY, THE NORMAL HEART, WHICH PREMIERED OFF-BROADWAY 1985. THE SEMI-TOBGRAPHIL PLAY TOLD THE STORY OF NED WEEKS, A GAY JEWISH WRER AND ACTIVIST HORRIFIED TO SEE A MYSTER DISEASE SPREADG AMONG GAY MEN.THE WELL-RECEIVED PLAY HAS HAD MANY NS SCE S 1985 BUT AND WAS ADAPTED TO A 2014 HBO MOVIE OF THE SAME NAME. KRAMER FOLLOWED WH A SEQUEL ABOUT WEEKS LLED THE DTY OF ME, WHICH PREMIERED OFF-BROADWAY 1992 AND WAS A FALIST FOR THE 1993 PULZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA.ACT UPIN 1987, KRAMER HELPED FOUND A RADIL ACTIVIST ANIZATN LLED ACT UP, WHICH STOOD FOR “AIDS COALN TO UNLEASH POWER.” FSTRATED BY THE NTUED ACTN ON AIDS REARCH AND TREATMENTS, ACT UP SOUGHT TO FORCE MEDIL AND POLIL LEARS TO DO JT THAT. ITS SLOGAN WAS “SILENCE = DEATH,” REFERRG TO THE CREASG NUMBERS OF GAY MEN AND TRANS WOMEN DYG OF AIDS. BY THIS TIME, KRAMER HAD ALREADY SEEN MANY OF HIS IENDS DIE OM AIDS-RELATED ILLNS. IN 1988, KRAMER LEARNED THAT HE, TOO, HAD NTRACTED HIV.ACT UP’S DISPTIVE TACTICS SUCCEED DRAWG ATTENTN TO THE AIDS CRISIS, FORCG THOSE POWER TO TAKE ACTN. IN 1989, MEMBERS OF ACT UP CHAED THEMSELV TO THE VIP BALNY OF THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE TO PROTT BURROUGHS WELLE, THE PANY THAT OWNED THE ONLY FDA-APPROVED TREATMENT FOR AIDS AND WAS SELLG THE DG AT AN EXORBANT PRICE. THE PROTT DISPTED THE STOCK EXCHANGE’S OPENG BELL FOR THE FIRST TIME HISTORY. SEVERAL DAYS AFTER THE PROTT, THE PANY LOWERED THE PRICE OF THE DG, KNOWN AS AZT.ANTHONY FCI, WHO BEME DIRECTOR OF THE NATNAL INSTUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECT DISEAS 1984 AND WAS A EQUENT SUBJECT OF KRAMER’S CRICISM, HAS PRAISED KRAMER FOR SPARKG CHANG THE U.S. MEDIL TABLISHMENT. KRAMER AND ACT UP’S ACTIVISM PHED FCI AND OTHER NATNAL INSTUT OF HEALTH OFFICIALS TO NSULT WH AIDS PATIENTS DURG NEW DG VELOPMENT AND GIVE THEM A VOICE CLIL TRIALS—CHANG THAT THE NIH ADOPTED STUDI OF OTHER DISEAS, TOO. IN ADDN, THE FDA SPED UP THE APPROVAL PROCS FOR NEW TREATMENTS FOR PEOPLE WH HIV AND AIDS.LATER LIFEKRAMER’S HIV DID NOT VELOP TO AIDS, BUT DID AFFECT HIS HEALTH AND THE MEDIL RE HE WAS ABLE TO RECEIVE. IN 2001, KRAMER STGGLED TO GET A LIVER REPLACEMENT BEE, AS SOMEONE WH HIV, MEDIL OFFICIALS NSIRED HIM TO BE A LOW PRRY FOR REPLACEMENT. AROUND THE TIME HE FALLY DID RECEIVE A NEW LIVER, THE ASSOCIATED PRS ACCINTALLY PUBLISHED A HEADLE FALSELY REPORTG THAT HE HAD DIED.IN 2013, TWO YEARS AFTER NEW YORK STATE LEGALIZED GAY MARRIAGE, KRAMER MARRIED HIS LONGTIME PARTNER DAVID WEBSTER A NEW YORK CY HOSPAL WHERE KRAMER WAS REVERG OM RECENT SURGERY. KRAMER AND WEBSTER FIRST DATED THE 1970S AND THEN STARTED DATG AGA THE 1990S. KRAMER NTUED TO SPEAK OUT ABOUT THE GLOBAL HIV AND AIDS CRISIS, WHICH HAS LED TO MORE THAN 39 LN ATHS.KRAMER DIED OF PNMONIA ON MAY 27, 2020, NEW YORK CY AT AGE {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK {FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-SIZE:1.1875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.6;MARG:0.9375REM 0 0 0.625REM;PADDG:0 0 0 1.25REM;}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{MARG:0.9375REM 0;}} B, STRONG{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;} EM{FONT-STYLE:ALIC;FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;} EM, I{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-STYLE:ALIC;} LI{PADDG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;} STRONG{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;} LI::MARKER{LOR:#323232;}BIRTH YEAR: 1935BIRTH DATE: JUNE 25, 1935BIRTH STATE: CONNECTICUTBIRTH CY: BRIDGEPORTBIRTH COUNTRY: UNED STATBT KNOWN FOR: LARRY KRAMER WAS A WRER AND ACTIVIST WHO DREW ATTENTN TO THE AIDS CRISIS THAT DISPROPORTNATELY KILLED GAY MEN AND TRANS WOMEN THE 1980S AND ‘90S.INDTRIWRG AND PUBLISHGPOLICSASTROLOGIL SIGN: CANCERINTERTG FACTSOCCUPATNSACTIVISTWRERDEATH YEAR: 2020DEATH DATE: MAY 27, 2020DEATH CY: NEW YORK CYDEATH COUNTRY: UN STATFACT CHECK
* kramer gay writer *
A proment and ntent voice the gay muny, Kramer fearlsly put forth hard tths and ntroversial opns, as when, a 1983 edorial, he urged gay men to stop havg sex until more was known about AIDS and how spread. The 1973 movie proved a major flop, but the hefty fee Kramer mand on the film allowed him to ncentrate full time on wrg novels and plays that uld addrs the gay them that were his passn. His 1978 novel “Faggots” aimed to pict love, life and sex among the gay men of New York and Fire Island, but on s release ed a furor among rears and crics, wh the gay muny particular ridg the novel for what was perceived as a negative pictn of gay life.
Larry Kramer was a wrer and activist who drew attentn to the AIDS crisis that disproportnately killed gay men and trans women the 1980s and ‘90s. * kramer gay writer *
He -found Gay Men’s Health Crisis, but his belligerent tactics — openly blamg Ronald Reagan, Ed Koch and New York Tim chief A. His books clu “Reports From the Holot: The Story of an AIDS Activist” and “The Tragedy of Today’s Gays.