Larry Kramer dies at 84
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losangelesblade.comLarry Kramer has died at age 84. (Photo by Jean Carlomusto; courtesy Farrar Straus Giroux) “First there were a dozen, then two dozen, suddenly 100 and then too, too many.” — Larry Kramer in an email to Troy Masters.
Larry Kramer died today in the middle of another pandemic, not the one he expected would kill him, at the age of 84. The cause was pneumonia, according to his husband David Webster.
Kramer was often soft-spoken, almost shy, and, at least the first time you met him, was unfailingly polite. But when he spoke in public his voice became a Moses-like lightning rod, parting the waters — some would say the nation — demanding respect and dignity for the lives of a people that were being decimated by a then hidden plague, AIDS.
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