“Plague!” Larry Kramer, who died Wednesday at 84, shouted to a roomful of apathetic AIDS activists in 1991.“Forty million infected people is a fucking plague, and nobody acts as if it is,” the founder of Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) and ACT UP continued.
A longtime HIV survivor who underwent a liver transplant several years ago, Kramer died of pneumonia amid the current pandemic, although not from it.Kramer's 1978 novel Faggots sparked controversy and his play The Normal Heart (1985) meshed