Larry Kramer, Pioneering AIDS Activist And Writer, Dies At 84

Writer and activist Larry Kramer, here in 1989, was an unapologetically loud and irrepressible voice in the fight against AIDS.

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 ACT UP, to combat AIDS.

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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 ACT UP, to combat AIDS.