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Larry Kramer (1935 - )
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Normal Heart and the Destiny of Me by
Larry Kramer, Tony
Kushner
The Normal Heart, set during the early
years of the AIDS epidemic, is the impassioned indictment of a
society that allowed the plague to happen, a moving denunciation
of the ignorance and fear that helped kill an entire generation.
It has been produced and taught all over the world. Its companion
play, The Destiny of Me, is the stirring story of an AIDS
activist forced to put his life in the hands of the very doctor he
has been denouncing.
 We
Must Love One Another or Die : The Life and Legacies of Larry
Kramer (Sexual Politics) by Lawrence Mass (Editor),
Larry Mass
Larry Kramer, America's highest-profile gay man,
is known worldwide as an activist, polemicist, essayist,
playwright, novelist, film producer, scriptwriter and since 1988
as a person living with HIV. The contributors to this volume
attempt to assess Kramer's unique contribution - in each of his
many fields of activity - to American public life and specifically
to the gay community. The book includes a full biographical
treatment and an in-depth interview with Kramer by Lawrence D.
Mass. "Kramer's story is the story of his times, at once the
saga of an individual's evolution from private citizen and
successful businessman to public actor and political activist and
the personification of 60 years of social upheaval" - Patrick
Merla
Contributors include: Christopher Bram, John
Clum, John D'Emilio, Michael Denneny, Anthony Fauci, Andrew
Holleran, Brandon Judell, Arnie Kantrowitz, Larry Mass, Rodger
McFarlane, Patrick Merla, Michael Paller, Gale Papp, Canaan
Parker, Calvin Trillon, Sarah Trillon, Rosa von Parunheim, David
Willinger, Susan Richardson and Ibrahim Quraishi.
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From amfAR
Aids Research
Throughout the 1980s, Larry Kramer was the
single best-known public advocate of individual, community-based,
and governmental responses to the national emergency posed by the
AIDS epidemic. He voiced the urgency of this need with passion,
and he led the way in creating organizational superstructures of
unprecedented importance, enabling the justifiable anger felt by
so many to take specific form: in 1981, he organized the founding
of Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC), and in 1987, he catalyzed the
creation of ACT UP, where he remained a leader for several years.
Larry Kramer began his writing career with a screen adaptation of
D.H. Lawrence’s "Women in Love" (1969), which received
a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Oscar; his novel
Faggots (1978) remains in print; and he is the author of several
dramas about AIDS, including the "The Normal Heart"
(1985), which has been seen in close to 1,000 productions
worldwide, and "The Destiny of Me" (1993), for which he
received an OBIE Award. Many of his essays and speeches have been
published in Reports from the Holocaust: The Story of an AIDS
Activist (1994)...
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From artistsrep.org
A central figure in the decade-long history of
AIDS advocacy in this country, Larry Kramer has agitated for
recognition of AIDS and solutions for the disease. Kramer was
already known as a screenwriter and novelist when The
Normal Heart exploded across the country (1985).
His film adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's Women
in Love won four Oscar nominations, including Best Screenplay
(1970). His satirical novel Faggots, about life in the gay
community in New York thrust him into controversy (1978)...
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