Larry Kramer: Author, Playwright, and LGBT Rights Activist

Larry Kramer was an American author, playwright, public health advocate, and LGBT rights activist. He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut in June 1935. Kramer started off rewriting scripts for Columbia Pictures and then moved to London to work for United Artists. He wrote the movies Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush, Women in Love, and Lost Horizon.

Kramer was also a talented writer for television and won a Humanitas Prize for The Normal Heart in 2014. He was nominated for an Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Women in Love and a Primetime Emmy Award and Writers Guild of America Award for The Normal Heart.

Kramer authored several books including Sissies’ Scrapbook, aka Four Friends, A Minor Dark Age, The Normal Heart, Just Say No, A Play about a Farce, The Furniture of Home, The Destiny of Me, Faggots, The American People Volume 1, Search for My Heart, Reports From the Holocaust: The Story of an AIDS Activist, and The Tragedy of Today’s Gays.

In addition to his work in the arts, Kramer was a vocal advocate for LGBT rights and established the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power in 1987. He passed away on May 27, 2020 at the age of 84.

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