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Laurence David Kramer (June 25, 1935 – May 27, 2020) was an American playwright, author, film producer, public health advocate, and LGBT rights activist. He began his career rewriting scripts while working for Columbia Pictures, which led him to London where he worked with United Artists. There he wrote the screenplay for the film Women in Love (1969) and received an Academy Award nomination for his work. AIDS-related diseases.
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Larry Kramer's Anger Is Essential in Historic 'Plague' Speech

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“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

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