![]() ![]() He was a recipient of the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a Master American Dramatist, and the Isabelle Stevenson Award, presented by the Tony Awards Committee. His other plays include The Destiny of Me, Sissies' Scrapbook, and Just Say No, and his prose work includes The American People Volumes 1 & 2, the novel Faggots, two nonfiction books, and a screenplay, Women in Love. He is the author of The Normal Heart, which in 2014 was made into an Emmy-winning TV adaptation by HBO. In 1981, with five friends, he founded Gay Men's Health Crisis, and in 1987 he founded ACT UP. This was a man who, lonely and self-hating, tried to commit suicide as an undergraduate at Yale who, obsessed but patient, waited decades to snag the man he loved who, after alienating many of. In 1981, with five friends, he founded Gay Mens Health Crisis, and in 1987 he founded ACT UP. ![]() Larry Kramer (1935-2020) was a writer and activist. Larry Kramer (1935-2020) was a writer and activist. ![]()
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