Larry Kramer — the New York City-based gay playwright and author whose involvement in the Gay Men's Health Crisis and ACT UP changed the course of the AIDS epidemic — died May 27.
He was 84. He died in Manhattan, where he lived near Greenwich Village, of pneumonia, according to his husband and longtime partner David Webster.
He had been in poor health for some time — having endured liver damage from hepatitis, an HIV infection for several decades, and a broken leg last year.