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How Erasure turned one of Cole Porter’s biggest hits into a powerful rallying cry during the AIDS crisis
Keith Haring, playwright Larry Kramer, and British film director Derek Jarman made some of their strongest work in direct response to the epidemic. At the intersection of these different responses was the Red Hot + Blue album in 1990. The idea was simple: Invite people to record a cover of a Cole Porter song for a compilation album to benefit ACT UP.
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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.