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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.
- 1960s–2020
- Arthur Kramer (brother)
- Laurence David Kramer, June 25, 1935, Bridgeport, Connecticut, U.S.
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 · Famous Activists. 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. By Biography.com...
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May 9, 2024 · Larry Kramer (born June 25, 1935, Bridgeport, Connecticut, U.S.—died May 27, 2020, New York, New York) was an 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.
- Richard Pallardy
May 27, 2020 · Kramer died Wednesday morning of pneumonia in Manhattan, Will Schwalbe, his friend and literary executor, told NPR. He was 84. Kramer was one of the great provocateurs of the late 20th century...
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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.
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 years old. As an ...
