Larry Kramer — a polarizing figure in AIDS activist, who was once a young Anthony Fauci’s most vocal critic, but came to be an ardent support — has died at age 84.
A long-time survivor of HIV, Kramer was an Oscar-nominated screenwriter (Women in Love) when he cofounded the organization ACT UP in 1987 as a grassroots movement that was highly critical of foot-dragging by the Reagan Administration and other officials in the handling of the AIDS crisis.