Larry Kramer in 2010 (Photo: David Shankbone)
27.05.2020 - 19:53 / nypost.com
Larry Kramer, the pioneering New York AIDS activist who used pamphlets, novels, Broadway plays and ire to spread his lifesaving message, has died. He was 84.
His husband, David Webster, told the New York Times that Kramer, who was HIV positive, had been suffering from pneumonia.
Kramer, who lived in Manhattan, co-founded the Gay Men’s Health Crisis in 1981 to address what was then being called a “gay cancer.” He butted heads with his members, who didn’t always react well to his well-known
Larry Kramer in 2010 (Photo: David Shankbone)
The likes of Mark Ruffalo, Joe Biden and Lin-Manuel Miranda have also honoured Kramer's life and career
NEW YORK -- Time never softened the urgency of Larry Kramer’s demands.
NEW YORK -- Reaction to the death of Larry Kramer, the AIDS activist and playwright who turned his fury into mass protests and helped raise the profile of the disease:
NEW YORK -- Larry Kramer, the playwright whose angry voice and pen raised theatergoers’ consciousness about AIDS and roused thousands to militant protests in the early years of the epidemic, has died at 84.
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NEW YORK — Larry Kramer, an author, playwright and film producer who helped shape U.S. healthcare policy with his early advocacy of a national response to AIDS when it first emerged in the 1980s, died on Wednesday at 84.
Hollywood stars and public figures took to social media on Wednesday to pay tribute to Larry Kramer, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter, playwright, author and trailblazing gay rights and AIDS activist who died Wednesday of pneumonia. He was 84.
By Jazz Tangcay
Larry Kramer, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter, playwright, author and trailblazing gay rights and AIDS activist best known for the Tony Award-winning The Normal Heart, has died. He was 84.
Larry Kramer, a prominent AIDS activist and playwright, has died.
Larry Kramer, the famed playwright and AIDS activist, has died. He was 84.
By Marc Malkin
Reaction to the death of Larry Kramer, the AIDS activist and playwright who turned his fury into mass protests and helped raise the profile of the disease:
Elton John has led tributes to Larry Kramer, the playwright who raised theatregoers’ consciousness about Aids, who has died aged 84.
By Greg Evans
Larry Kramer, a prominent AIDS activist and playwright, has died.
NEW YORK — Author Larry Kramer, whose early advocacy for a national response to AIDS as the disease first emerged in the 1980s helped raise awareness and shape healthcare policy into the 1990s, died on Wednesday at 84.