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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.
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 23, 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.
May 27, 2020 · Larry Kramer, the writer and influential gay activist who pressed the U.S. government and the medical establishment to respond to the AIDS epidemic, has died. He was 84. Kramer died 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.
May 29, 2020 · Larry Kramer, an outspoken activist and playwright who pushed public health officials to take the AIDS epidemic seriously, died of pneumonia on Wednesday morning. He was 84 years old.
May 27, 2020 · Larry Kramer — the outspoken AIDS activist, playwright, author, and screenwriter — died on Wednesday at the age of 84. The cause was pneumonia, according to his husband, David...
Jun 23, 2020 · When activist and playwright Larry Kramer died in May, many remembered his voice -- and the way he spoke out during the AIDS/HIV epidemic, especially as the government looked the other way. “We...
May 27, 2020 · NEW YORK (AP) — 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,...
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...
