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A tribute to Larry Kramer revealed a blood feud between the playwright and Ed Koch. Apparently Kramer, who died Wednesday, lived in the same building as the former mayor and despised him so much that he petitioned the building’s board not to put his memorial plaque near Koch’s. Paper magazine founder Kim Hastreiter posted a …
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“Larry Kramer was a nice guy” . . . is not a sentence you’ll be reading much today. The forefather of AIDS activism, who died Wednesday at age 84, was, by most accounts, an obnoxious firebrand whose unrestrained volatility helped save millions of lives. He owned that, and was proud of it. That’s all true. But to …
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Larry Kramer, the pioneering New York AIDS activist who used pamphlets, novels, Broadway plays and ire to spread his lifesaving message, has died. He was 84. His husband, David Webster, told the New York Times that Kramer, who was HIV positive, had been suffering from pneumonia. Kramer, who lived in Manhattan, co-founded the Gay Men’s …
A tribute to Larry Kramer revealed a blood feud between the playwright and Ed Koch. Apparently Kramer, who died Wednesday, lived in the same building as the former mayor and despised him so much that he petitioned the building’s board not to put his memorial plaque near Koch’s. Paper magazine founder Kim Hastreiter posted a …
