Larry Kramer Image: PA Images Larry Kramer Image: PA Images TRIBUTES HAVE BEEN paid to Larry Kramer, the playwright who raised theatregoers’ consciousness about Aids, who has died aged 84.
He also suffered from hepatitis B and received a liver transplant in 2001 because the virus had caused liver failure. Tributes from the arts community flooded in, with Hamilton star Lin-Manuel Miranda on Twitter saying: “what an extraordinary writer, what a life”. Larry Kramer valued every gay life at a time when so many gay men had been rendered incapable of valuing our own lives. He ordered us to love ourselves and each other and to fight for our lives. He was a hero.In 1981, when Aids had not yet acquired its name and only a few dozen people had been diagnosed with it, Kramer and a group of his friends in New York City founded Gay Men’s Health Crisis , one of the first groups in the country to address the epidemic.
The late journalist Randy Shilts, in his best-selling account of the Aids epidemic And The Band Played On, called that article “inarguably one of the most influential works of advocacy journalism of the decade” and credited it with “crystallising the epidemic into a political movement for the gay community”.
Kramer split with GMHC in 1983 after other board members decided to concentrate on providing support services to people with Aids. It remains one of the largest Aids service groups in the US.
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