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Honoring Larry Kramer on his birthday. 25 June 1935

Playwright, activist, and co-founder of ACT UP and GMHC, Larry was a warrior for AIDS awareness and LGBTQ+ rights. He shouted when others whispered, and demanded action when silence was deadly.

Through The Normal Heart and his tireless advocacy, he saved lives and changed the course of history.

Happy Birthday to a hero who never backed down—and never let us forget that silence = death.

Tatiana Maslany supports AIDSWalk New York via GMHC

We continue to fight against AIDS even today, but the strides we have made would not have been possible without Larry Kramer. 

Larry Kramer, a longtime AIDS activist and an author, has died, The New York Times reports. He was 84. The cause was pneumonia, according to his husband, David Webster. Kramer had overcome many health challenges. In addition to being a long-term survivor of HIV, he also had a liver transplant resulting from liver disease caused by hepatitis B.

The group consisted of six gay men whose lovers had advanced AIDS infections, and a female volunteer therapist who directed and focused our discussions. The experience was warm, loving and often almost unbearably moving as we sustained each other through rituals of fear, anger and denial, and finally helped each other face our lovers' deaths.

Throughout my time in the group I was aware of a compelling fact: no one ever discussed or seriously contemplated leaving his ailing lover. I remember feeling that those homophobes who depict gay men as superficial, uncaring and incapable of deep and profound love and commitment to each other had obviously never been in such a room, or known such men.