Larry Kramer, author, playwright and activist, has died at age 84. Kramer died Wednesday morning in his Manhattan home of pneumonia according to his husband David Webster.
He’d struggled with various illness, including HIV, through most of his later years. Throughout his life, critics branded Kramer a troublemaker for his incendiary rhetoric.
Admirers, however, praised him for his passion, intellect and courage in taking on taboo issues. “Once you got past the rhetoric you found that Larry