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Laurence David Kramer (June 25, 1935 – May 27, 2020) was an American playwright, author, film producer, public health advocate, and gay rights activist. He began his career rewriting scripts while working for Columbia Pictures, which led him to London, where he worked with United Artists.
May 27, 2020 · Larry Kramer, the noted writer whose raucous, antagonistic campaign for an all-out response to the AIDS crisis helped shift national health policy in the 1980s and ’90s, died on Wednesday...
Jul 13, 2022 · Larry Kramer was a writer and activist who drew attention to the AIDS crisis that disproportionately killed gay men and trans women in the 1980s and ‘90s.
Jun 27, 2023 · The man behind those words was Larry Kramer, the argumentative writer and activist who helped shape the modern gay rights movement during the AIDS crisis and who died in May 2020 at 84.
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May 28, 2020 · Kramer wrote "The Normal Heart" and founded ACT UP, two influential works that raised awareness and fought for the rights of people with AIDS. He also received an Oscar nomination for "Women in Love" and a Pulitzer Prize finalist for "The Destiny of Me".
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May 27, 2020 · Larry Kramer was one of the 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...
May 27, 2020 · The longtime AIDS activist and author Larry Kramer died Wednesday morning in Manhattan, his publisher confirmed. He was 84. The cause of death was pneumonia, according to The New York Times.
