'Fiercely intelligent, erudite, funny, articulate, and—dare I say it?—sweet, with a haunted undertone of melancholy, he was a frequent guest at my parents’ dinner parties,' Adam___Green remembers Larry Kramer
, Larry Kramer’s lacerating cri de coeur about the AIDS epidemic in 1980s New York City, I described the play’s protagonist Ned Weeks, closely modeled on the author himself, as “difficult to like and impossible not to love.” I was reminded of this when I read Kramer’s obituary in--he died this morning at 84—which quoted a Dwight Garner pan of his last novel, published earlier this year, “The American People, Volume 2: The Brutality of Fact”: “I can’t say I liked it,” Garner wrote.
A playwright, novelist, essayist, and AIDS activist, whose life and work were driven by righteous fury and a capacious heart, Kramer was impossible not to love, but he was also—his infamously blazing temper, scathing tongue, and take-no-prisoners relentlessness notwithstanding—easy to like. Fiercely intelligent, erudite, funny, articulate, and—dare I say it?—sweet, with a haunted undertone of melancholy, he was a frequent guest at my parents’ dinner parties.
Despite a litany of health problems over the years that left him frail , Kramer had a happy domestic life: He lived with Daniel Webster, an architect, from 1994 till his death, and. But his public life was marked by outrage, a need to speak his mind in the bluntest of terms, and a gift for pissing people off.
Kramer was an unapologetic moralist, and he found the focus for his righteous anger—and his life’s work—in the maelstrom of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. A Cassandra who recognized the potential scope of the disease from the beginning, as well as the apathy of the federal government and other institutions, he co-founded Gay Men’s Health Crisis, a pioneering organization for HIV-positive men and women.
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