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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 morning...
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.
May 27, 2020 · Kramer was a writer with an Oscar-nominated screenplay when his friends started dying mysteriously — galvanizing him to found the Gay Men's Health Crisis, and later...
May 28, 2020 · 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...
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.
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.
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. On Monday...
Jun 24, 2022 · Today we remember Larry Kramer, playwright, AIDS and gay rights activist, and dog-lover—born on June 25 in 1935. Throughout his life, in the face of injustice, lack of rights, and oppression, Kramer harnessed his anger to propel creativity and action: both in his efforts to organize and activate his community, and through his art.
May 27, 2020 · Larry Kramer, the fervent AIDS activist and award-winning writer behind The Normal Heart play, died Wednesday morning due to pneumonia, husband David Webster told The New York...