Larry Kramer was a young writer with an Oscar-nominated screenplay when his friends started dying mysteriously — galvanizing him to found Gay Men's Health Crisis, and later ACT UP, to combat AIDS. He died of pneumonia this morning. He was 84.
Larry Kramer, pictured in 1989, was an unapologetically loud and irrepressible voice in the fight against AIDS.Larry Kramer, pictured in 1989, was an unapologetically loud and irrepressible voice in the fight against AIDS.Larry Kramer was one of the very first activists against AIDS, back when the disease didn't even have a name. In the early 1980s, Kramer witnessed hundreds, then thousands of gay men die before the government took action to stop the spread of HIV.
he told a group of gay men,"I am going to go out screaming so f****** rudely that you will hear this coarse, crude voice of mine in your nightmares! You are going to die, and you are going to die very very soon, unless you get up off your f****** tushies and fight back!"
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