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   From: cblasey@paloaltou.edu   
      
   Larry Kramer, the noted writer whose raucous, antagonistic   
   campaign for an all-out response to the AIDS crisis helped shift   
   national health policy in the 1980s and ’90s, died on Wednesday   
   morning in Manhattan. He was 84.   
      
   His husband, David Webster, said the cause was pneumonia. Mr.   
   Kramer had weathered illness for much of his adult life. Among   
   other things he had been infected with H.I.V., the virus that   
   causes AIDS, contracted liver disease and underwent a successful   
   liver transplant.   
      
   An author, essayist and playwright — notably hailed for his   
   autobiographical 1985 play, “The Normal Heart” — Mr. Kramer had   
   feet in both the world of letters and the public sphere. In 1981   
   he was a founder of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, the first   
   service organization for H.I.V.-positive people, though his   
   fellow directors effectively kicked him out a year later for his   
   aggressive approach. (He returned the compliment by calling them   
   “a sad organization of sissies.”)   
      
   He was then a founder of a more militant group, Act Up (AIDS   
   Coalition to Unleash Power), whose street actions demanding a   
   speedup in AIDS drugs research and an end to discrimination   
   against gay men and lesbians severely disrupted the operations   
   of government offices, Wall Street and the Roman Catholic   
   hierarchy.   
      
   Yes, Larry was the one who encouraged drug addict queers to act   
   like babies and shit on public streets and in public buldings.   
      
   https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/us/larry-kramer-dead.html   
        
      
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