Larry Kramer, the playwright, AIDS activist, author, public health advocate, and LGBTQ activist who founded GMHC (Gay Men’s Health Crisis) and later ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), is dead at 84.
The New York Times reports Kramer’s husband, David Webster, said he died of pneumonia. Kramer was known as an outspoken activist who wielded hyperbole like a sword. “One of America’s most valuable troublemakers,” Susan Sontag called him.