Larry Kramer, author and passionate AIDS activist, has died at age 84.Kramer died Wednesday morning at his home in Manhattan, The New York Times reports.
The cause was pneumonia, according to his husband, David Webster. Kramer was a long-term survivor of HIV and had undergone a liver transplant several years ago.Kramer is best known as the author of the Tony-winning The Normal Heart, a play about the AIDS crisis, and as a founder of Gay Men’s Health Crisis — the first AIDS service organization —