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Kramer assisted discovered both Gay Men’s Health Crisis and Act Up.
US playwright, author and Aids activist Larry Kramer has died at the age of 84.
Kramer composed the landmark 1985 play The Typical Heart, about the early years of Aids, and 1992’s The Fate of Me.
He was a pivotal and confrontational figure throughout the Aids crisis in the 1980 s, co-founding the very first gay guys’s support group and strongly lobbying officials to act.
He had actually made his name as a screenwriter, earning an Oscar nomination in 1971 for adapting DH Lawrence’s Females in Love.
He also published the best-selling however controversial novel Faggots in 1977.
At the start of the 1980 s, he put his energies into rallying support and awareness for the fight against HIV and Aids.
‘ Behind enemy lines’
Kramer first became conscious of the illness after buddies living next door in New Yor