RIP Larry Kramer- Page 2

[joevitus]

Posted: 5/28/20 at 12:18am

I can imagine. I'm I guess a little younger than you. I don't know many who died, but I was constantly being told when I was first coming out "So and so would be such a good role model for you." "Well, I'd like to meet him." "He died." It's the first thing you seemed to learn. "He died." Over and over and over. I can't imagine what it was like to experience that in real time.

And that Kramer could capture the time so effectively demonstrates what a great artist he was. 

[Miles2Go2]

Posted: 5/28/20 at 10:03am

Highland Guy said: "On June 8 (perhaps other dates, as well), HBO will show the 2015 documentaryLarry Kramer in Love and Anger."

Thanks. I also just discovered it’s on HBO Go now. 

[kennedy_rose]

Posted: 5/28/20 at 10:10am

Mr. Kramer, so few like him...a brave, brave man.

Let's not forget this as well:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/health/larry-kramer-anthony-fauci.html

[SmoothLover]

Posted: 5/28/20 at 10:32am

He came into a restaurant I was working in, gosh it must have been over 15 years ago and he was very frail. I recognized him and I remember my impulse was to be extra warm towards him because I admired what he had accomplished. They should name a street in NYC after him.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/28/20 at 1:44pm

Here's a nice remembrance of Larry by writer Adam Green, son of Adolf Green and Phyllis Newman.

Adam Green in Vogue: A Righteous Fury and a Capacious Heart: Remembering Larry Kramer

Larry would not want his memory to be sugar-coated. He could spit venom and castigate friends and foes alike with the fire and brimstone of an Old Testament prophet. But then he would turn around and be pure love. I was lucky to be the recipient of both--the love more than the venom, thankfully.

He considered those of us who attended Act-Up meetings and demonstrations his "children," and we loved him like a parent, even though sometimes his seemingly disproportionate fury and rage would enrage us in return.

 

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/28/20 at 1:47pm

This clip, from the excellent documentary about Act-Up called "How to Survive a Plague," shows Larry castigating his "children" at a difficult moment when the organization he created was being split into two.