Larry Kramer's "The Normal Heart" won
the Tony Award for best revival of a play on Sunday evening  and the
following was his heart felt touching acceptance speech!
Larry Kramer: "Dearest loving mother, Daryl Roth and generous Paul
Boskind, thank you, and everyone, for this magnificent production. To
gay people everywhere, whom I love so, The Normal Heart is our history.
I could not have written it had not so many of us so needlessly died.
Learn from it and carry on the fight. Let them know that we are a very
special people, an exceptional people, and that our day will come."
Last
year I started a series  listing and
telling people about the top 100 gay writers and Larry Kramer was near
the top. I admire this man for many reasons mainly his writing but,
also, for his activism. Before AIDS came on the scene he was warning the
gay community to clean up their act and when it did arrive he was on
the front lines screaming at the New York Mayor, the President of the
United States and all those, including gays, who didn't pay attention to
what was happening. He fought for, and got, drugs from the government
and drug companies. In all probability Larry Kramer is responsible for
so many gay men being alive today.
Mr. Kramer was an angry
man and channeled that anger for the hood of man. He is still angry and
fighting for ALL people with AIDS, including himself!
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Here is a little bio of Larry Kramer that only touches on a small part of his life:
"Larry Kramer (born June 25, 1935) is an American playwright, author, public health advocate, and LGBT rights activist. He began his career rewriting scripts while working for Columbia Pictures, which led him to London where he worked with United Artists. There he wrote the screenplay for Women in Love in 1969, earning an Academy Award nomination for his efforts. Kramer introduced a controversial and confrontational style in his 1978 novel Faggots,
which earned mixed reviews but emphatic denunciations from the gay
community for his portrayal of shallow, promiscuous gay relationships in
the 1970s.
Kramer witnessed the first spread of the disease that became known as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) among his friends in 1980, and he co-founded the Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), which has become the largest private organization to assist people living with AIDS in the world. Not content with the social services GMHC provided, Kramer expressed his frustration with bureaucratic paralysis and the apathy of gay men to the AIDS crisis by writing a play titled The Normal Heart which was produced at The Public Theatre in New York City in 1985. His political activism extended to the founding of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) in 1987, a direct action protest organization widely credited with changing public health policy and widespread perception of people living with AIDS (PWAs) and awareness of HIV and AIDS-related diseases.^[1] He has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his play The Destiny of Me (1992), and has been a two-time recipient of the Obie Award. Kramer currently lives in New York City and Connecticut"
From wikipedia.com

Larry Kramer’s “The Normal Heart” wins Tony Award for best revival of a play and he makes moving speech