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Contents:
- MARK RUFFALO WAS SCHOOLED BY ‘NORMAL HEART’S’ PNEERG GAY PLAYWRIGHT
- NED WEEKS: THE HENERAL LUNA OF THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- A GAY JEWISH READG LIST
- TAYLOR KSCH ON ‘THE NORMAL HEART,’ HOMOPHOBIC RIGHT-WGERS, AND GAYS THE MILARY
MARK RUFFALO WAS SCHOOLED BY ‘NORMAL HEART’S’ PNEERG GAY PLAYWRIGHT
Pneerg gay playwright Larry Kramer schooled Mark Ruffalo for his part 'Normal Heart' * ned weeks gay activist *
The story tak a look at the natn's sexual polics and the HIV-AIDS crisis New York Cy while followg Weeks (Mark Ruffalo) as he begs his missn (wh the help of other gay activists and supporters the medil muny) to expose the tth about the disease to the public. The play and film also explor his affiliatn wh the Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) and the aths of iends and loved on due to addn to Weeks, a handful of other starrg and supportg characters both the play and film are based on real people.
NED WEEKS: THE HENERAL LUNA OF THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
* ned weeks gay activist *
Lawrence Mass, another -founr of urse, Kramer's volvement wh the play-turned-movie was neher the begng nor the end of his relatnship wh HIV-AIDS awarens or the gay muny.
And yet, he was also already g his power as an artist to promote the gay apologize, this vio has year, he also wrote and produced a brilliant film versn of "Women In Love, " the storied D. One of Kramer’s most important tasks as producer was to make sure the Brish censors didn’t remove the most homoerotic moment most moviegoers had ever seen up to that time: a naked wrtlg match between Oliver Reed and Alan Bat ont of a fireplace.
In his efforts to close the al and keep the scene, Kramer and director Ken Rsell took the chief Brish censor to lunch –- and agreed to lower the lights the scene to make a tad more entire history of the LGBTQ movement is a story of the llaboratn of culture and years later a group of men gathered Kramer’s Fifth Avenue apartment to discs the creatn of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis. It would bee his first ccial vehicle as an activist and the first anizatn to raise the alarm to gays and straight people alike as to the gravy of the AIDS epimic.
A GAY JEWISH READG LIST
From that moment on, all of Kramer’s polil activi were eply rmed by his sense of the entire history of the LGBTQ movement is a story of the llaboratn of culture and polics: how gay artists and gay activists worked tanm to transform the world’s attu toward what had been one of s most hated mori for centuri.
TAYLOR KSCH ON ‘THE NORMAL HEART,’ HOMOPHOBIC RIGHT-WGERS, AND GAYS THE MILARY
And no one bed their artistic and polil talents more succsfully to produce social progrs than March 1987, when the AIDS epimic was ravagg Ameri, and the whole gay muny was peerg over an abyss, Kramer summoned all of his theatril talents an impassned speech to young activists at what was then known as Manhattan’s Lbian and Gay Communy Servic Center.