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Larry Kramer Biography

Larry Kramer (born June 25, 1935) is 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 1969 film Women in Love (1969) and earned an Academy Award nomination for his work. Kramer introduced a controversial and confrontational style in his novel Faggots (1978), which earned mixed reviews and emphatic denunciations from elements within the gay community for Kramer's one-sided portrayal of shallow, promiscuous gay relationships in the 1970s.

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Mr. Do-Nothing Obama will say today, 'Lets think of all the poor dead people' - or 'let's honor all the dead' instead of fighting for the living. He has been really useless in terms of both HIV and gay issues. He is simply not a leader. He may be president, but he is not a leader.

Fighting, Gay, Living, Simply, Thinking

I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened here first, on his watch. If he had done what any moral human being should have done in the beginning, and put out alarms, then a lot fewer people would have gotten sick.

Happened, Human, People, Responsible, Should Have, Thinking

I've spent fifteen years of my life fighting for our right to be free and make love whenever, wherever. . . And you're telling me that all those years of what being gay stood for is wrong. . . and I'm a murderer. We have been so oppressed! Don't you remember how it was? Can't you see how important it is for us to love openly, without hiding and without guilt?

Fighting, Gay, Guilt, Love, Murderer, Years

Saying someone is gay who is gay no longer constitutes defamation or slander or libel. You cannot defame someone by telling the truth.

Defame, Gay, Libel, Saying, Slander, Telling The Truth

Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a positive force, because it allows sensible people to realize how stupid and vile their beliefs are.

Belief, Michelle, People, Romneys, Sensible, Stupid

Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

Activist, Activists, Artist, Rarely, Taken, Writers

I was at Yale from 1953 to 1957, and I tried to commit suicide in my freshman year because I was gay, and I thought I was the only person in the school who was. I was just totally and utterly miserable.

Commit, Gay, School, Suicide, Thought

I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools.

Artist, Fighting, Man, Men, Opinionated, Words

The point about L-O-V-E is that we hate the word. Because we vulgarize it. It should be taboo, forbidden from utterance for many years, till we've found a new and a better idea.

Hate, Idea, Love, Point, Taboo, Years

I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.

Came, Feelings, Happened, Outcast, Self, Yale

Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life. There were bars, but you sort of snuck in and snuck out. Activism and gay pride simply didn't exist. I don't even think the word 'gay' was in existence.

Compartmentalized, Gay, Pride, Thinking, Word

You do not get more with honey than with vinegar!

Honey, Vinegar

AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.

Aids, Allowed, Beginning, Contained, Needs, Plague

Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.

Gay, Men, Realized, Useful, World

George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.

Gay, Intellectual, Men, Names, Primary

I love being gay. I love gay people. I think we're better than other people. I really do. I think we're smarter and more talented and more aware. I do, I totally do. I really do think all of these things. And I try very hard to remember all this.

Gay, Love Is, People, Talented, Think, Thinking

By nature, Im an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.

Believe, Nature, Optimistic, Person, Persons

AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.

Aids, Call, Definitions, Modern

We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic [AIDS] every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us, as if nothing is happening, going on with their own lives and not knowing what it's like, what we're going through. We're living through war, but where they're living it's peacetime, and we're all in the same country.

Country, Crazy, Nothing, Peacetime, War

There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there be any other issue in the face of death, possible extinction?

Gay, Issues, Movement, Question

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