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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.

  2. Jul 13, 2022 · Learn about Larry Kramer, a writer and activist who co-founded the Gay Men’s Health Crisis and ACT UP to fight the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and ‘90s. Discover his early life, writing career, and legacy in this comprehensive biography.

  3. 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...

  4. May 23, 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.

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  5. 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...

  6. 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...

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  8. 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.

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