Larry Kramer, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter, playwright, author and trailblazing gay rights and AIDS activist, has died at 84
Larry Kramer, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter, playwright, author and trailblazing gay rights and AIDS activist best known for the Tony Award-winningKramer died Wednesday morning in Manhattan of pneumonia, his husband, architect David Webster,Born on June 25, 1935, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Kramer got his start in Hollywood, taking a job at age 23 as a Teletype operator at Columbia Pictures — a position he only took because of its proximity to the president's office.
Kramer's critical, confrontational voice found a conduit, however, when a mysterious "gay cancer" started appearing in 1980. Suddenly, his angry truth-telling became a beacon to a terrified community on the verge of extinction. In his apartment, Kramer hosted the first meetings to address the deadly, nameless epidemic striking America's gay communities.
Suddenly, the crowd erupted in celebration. Like a soldier who couldn't quite believe the battle was over, Kramer was trying to process the fact that history — and Hollywood — had finally caught up with him. For three decades, he had been at the forefront of the gay rights movement, and just as often, he had been at odds with it, often accusing his fellow activists of not fighting hard enough, hectoring other gays for not fighting at all.
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