Recently, I’ve been transfixed by Larry Kramer’s gut-wrenching play “The Normal Heart.” Why am I so obsessed with Kramer’s work now?
Because art is as vital as air in this time of the COVID-19 plague. Poems, plays, movies, novels and paintings can’t cure a disease.
But they can comfort, entertain and prod us to work for justice. The LGBTQ community has lived with AIDS since the beginning of the epidemic in the 1980s.