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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...
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...
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 28, 2020 · Kramer, an Academy Award nominee, was best known for his public fight to secure medical treatment, acceptance and civil rights for people with AIDS. He died Wednesday of pneumonia.
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...
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 27, 2020 · Larry Kramer, who died Wednesday at 84, was, in so many words, a force. The rare activist to become a household name, he fought tirelessly for people with H.I.V. and AIDS, and against a largely...
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 · 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,...