This is the third in a series highlighting the best gay and lesbian authors from the 20th century (with a few before and after that period) who have recorded in fiction, and nonfiction, the history of gay people telling what life is, and was, during an important time of history. The series is aimed to show the newer gay generations what came before and how these writers helped them to have it so much better. It is also aimed at nongay people who will hopefully understand why gay people deserve the rights that nongay people have. Aside from having historic value they all are great reading!

They will not be presented in any particular order but all are equal in importance.



Larry Kramer has been an outspoken Gay activist for at least 50 years. He warned gay men that they would be paying for their promiscuity in the 70s and was the first one there to help people with AIDS starting the GHMC and then forming ACT UP. He wrote the award winning, powerful play "The Normal Heart", brought and kept the AIDS crisis before the public eye and publicly pointed the finger at Ronald Reagan for killing a generation of men. His book "Tales From The Holocaust" is as moving and powerful today as when it was written.

The man is as active today as he was in his 20s and 30s. Many people don't like him because he is loud and pushy but that is what helps make him so effective and makes people in power listen to him.


Larry Kramer
Larry Kramer in 2010.
Born June 25, 1935 (age 75)
Bridgeport , Connecticut , U.S. (1935-06-25 )
Occupation Screenwriter , novelist , essayist , playwright , activist .
Nationality American
Period 1960s-present
Subjects Gay community , AIDS activism

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 reviewsbutemphatic 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 Cityin1985. 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 .

TO READ MORE ABOUT HIS BOOKS, PLAYS, AWARDS, SCHOLAR ACCOMPLISHMENTS, PERSONAL LIFE, ACTIVISM GO TO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Kramer

THERE IS A LOT TO READ THERE BUT MORE THAN WORTH IT.