Larry Kramer Lives To See His ‘Normal Heart' Filmed For TV

Larry Kramer: 'We Have Achieved Very Little'
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 12: Playwright Larry Kramer attends 'The Normal Heart' New York Screening at Ziegfeld Theater on May 12, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Jim Spellman/WireImage)
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 12: Playwright Larry Kramer attends 'The Normal Heart' New York Screening at Ziegfeld Theater on May 12, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Jim Spellman/WireImage)

Most revolutionaries don’t live to see as much dizzying change as Larry Kramer has.

In the 1980s, he was the most strident, scolding voice in New York City (in the world, really) on behalf of gay men infected with H.I.V.: men whose parents shunned them, whose doctors feared them, whose dignity disappeared as their corpses were stuffed into trash bags. Now, 33 years after Mr. Kramer helped found the advocacy group Gay Men’s Health Crisis, AIDS has just fallen out of the top 10 causes of death in New York for the first time since 1983. Epidemics of loneliness and isolation have given way to same-sex marriage and the Michael Sam kiss.

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