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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 22, 2024 · Larry Kramer, American playwright, screenwriter, and gay rights activist whose confrontational style of advocacy, while divisive, was credited by many with catalyzing the response to the HIV/AIDS crisis in the United States. Learn more about Kramer’s life and work in this article.
- Richard Pallardy
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...
- Neda Ulaby
May 27, 2020 · The New York Times reports that Kramer, who co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis and ACT UP, passed away from pneumonia. He was also a screenwriter and author of novels and plays, including "The Normal Heart", a seminal work on the AIDS crisis.
May 29, 2020 · Larry Kramer, the influential writer and AIDS activist who co-founded both the Gay Men's Health Crisis and the protest group ACT UP, died of pneumonia Wednesday. He was 84...
