“A titan, a warrior, an unflinching iconoclast.” Reaction to the death of playwright Larry Kramer came from Broadway to the halls of power.
, the AIDS activist and playwright who turned his fury into mass protests and helped raise the profile of the disease:
“At a time when the federal government sat paralyzed in denial of a disease that was ravaging an entire generation of LGBTQ people, Larry Kramer was fearless, uncompromising, relentless and loud —characteristics that ruffled feathers but that forced a response to a public health crisis. He was `one of the men who fought the war’ — the epitome, in the midst of a different plague, of New York Tough.
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