Larry Kramer
Larry Kramer
Larry Krameris an American playwright, author, public health advocate, and LGBT rights activist. He began his career rewriting scripts while working for Columbia Pictures, which led him to London where he worked with United Artists. There he wrote the screenplay for the 1969 film Women in Loveand earned an Academy Award nomination for his work. Kramer introduced a controversial and confrontational style in his novel Faggots, which book earned mixed reviews but emphatic denunciations from elements within the gay community...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth25 June 1935
CityBridgeport, CT
CountryUnited States of America
We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
This is the second phase of our plan to re-launch all of our Web sites as broadband channels. We're going to use this as a home-base for shows and programming we haven't been able to do before.
This is the second phase of our plan to re-launch all of our websites as broadband channels.
It's a major step for us. This is our Live 8, this is a mass-market moment for the Internet and for us.
The story doesn't end any more when you post it, when you put it on the TV.
If we can create a good consumer platform, it wouldn't surprise me that other companies would come to us as they do on the network.
AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
We're going to bring this color commentary to the Web. It enables us to take more programming to users.
We're making adjustments every minute based on how things are holding up.
We're looking at other shows now. We want to go gradually. We've never done this before.
Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.
We didn't exist. Ronald Reagan didn't say the word 'AIDS' until 1987. I've tried desperately to get a meeting in the White House; Gay Men's Health Crisis is already an established organization. I have a certain presence.
We are going to put our content in every form on every device. We're testing them all.