Activist Peter Staley knew Larry Kramer like few did. Both men were influential members of ACT UP — Kramer being one of the group's co-founders — and Staley would go on to launch another HIV organization, TAG.
As Staley writes in a remembrance of Kramer he published following the latter man's death on Wednesday, the two had a fraught relationship.
Staley makes clear Kramer was not perfect, but that he was indeed the "spark" that pushed the government and pharmaceutical industry to take action