Larry Kramer

Larry Kramer is an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and producer of the literate adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's "Women in Love" (1969, directed by Ken Russell) and screenwriter of the less successful 1973 remake of "Lost Horizon". Additionally, he enjoyed success with the somewhat controversial 1978 novel "Faggots", which depicted some of the excess of gay men in the 1970s. By the early 80s, however, he had shifted his energies from film and fiction to the AIDS epidemic, co-founding the seminal community organization, the Gay Men's Health Crisis.In 1985 the New York Shakespeare Festival produced Kramer's groundbreaking AIDS drama, "The Normal Heart", a searing chronicle of the disease's rapid growth, the fear and indifference manifested by the political and medical establishments, and the infighting within GMHC. The play has since been seen in more than 600 productions worldwide but although it has been optioned for the movies, sadly remains unfilmed. Kramer went on to co-found the more confrontational AIDS activist group ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) and wrote the flawed but moving 1992 autobiographical drama "The Destiny of Me", which focused on the teenage years of "Normal Heart"...

Larry Kramer is an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and producer of the literate adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's "Women in Love" (1969, directed by Ken Russell) and screenwriter of the less successful 1973 remake of "Lost Horizon". Additionally, he enjoyed success with the somewhat controversial 1978 novel "Faggots", which depicted some of the excess of gay men in the 1970s. By the early 80s, however, he had shifted his energies from film and fiction to the AIDS epidemic, co-founding the seminal community organization, the Gay Men's Health Crisis.

In 1985 the New York Shakespeare Festival produced Kramer's groundbreaking AIDS drama, "The Normal Heart", a searing chronicle of the disease's rapid growth, the fear and indifference manifested by the political and medical establishments, and the infighting within GMHC. The play has since been seen in more than 600 productions worldwide but although it has been optioned for the movies, sadly remains unfilmed. Kramer went on to co-found the more confrontational AIDS activist group ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) and wrote the flawed but moving 1992 autobiographical drama "The Destiny of Me", which focused on the teenage years of "Normal Heart" protagonist Ned Weeks. More recently, Kramer, who is HIV positive, co-founded the Treatment Data Project which gathers statistics on the protocols of several hundred thousand people worldwide with HIV disease.

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