As society turned away from a disease that was killing gay men, Larry Kramer demanded we pay attention to AIDS. Kramer, who many credit as saving thousands of lives affected by the disease, died Wednesday in New York. He was 84.
In the early 1980s, a little understood disease called AIDS was stigmatized as society turned its head away from the hundreds of gay men it was killing. But then Larry Kramer published his essay"1,112 and Counting."
"If this article doesn't rouse you to anger, fury, rage and action, gay men have no future on this earth," Kramer wrote."Unless we fight for our lives we shall die." With that one essay, Kramer helped shift the nation's attention to the spread of AIDS, and his continued activism, while often divisive, helped propel the US to respond to the crisis in the way it did.
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