![]() ![]() ![]() He co-founded the Gay Men’s Health Crisis in 1982, then, when that didn’t seem sufficient, he went on to create ACT UP in 1987. ![]() Before that, he broke out with his confrontational 1978 novel, Faggots. ceremony, they had already planned to marry after the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act earlier that year.īorn Laurence David Kramer on June 25, 1935, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Kramer grew up to be a famed writer - he was nominated for an Academy Award in 1969 for his screenplay of Women in Love. He married Webster in 2013 when he was 78 and Webster was 66 while recovering from surgery at the NYU Langone Medical Center. Kramer had battled illnesses for years and has been declared dead more than once - both literally, in a 2001 Associated Press headline when he was awaiting a liver transplant, and professionally for writing so boldly about the gay experience and his indefatigable campaigning for LGBTQ rights and equality. The cause was pneumonia, according to his husband, David Webster, who confirmed the news with the New York Times. Larry Kramer - the outspoken AIDS activist, playwright, author, and screenwriter - died on Wednesday at the age of 84. ![]()
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