Larry Kramer
Larry Kramer
Larry Krameris 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 the 1969 film Women in Loveand earned an Academy Award nomination for his work. Kramer introduced a controversial and confrontational style in his novel Faggots, which book earned mixed reviews but emphatic denunciations from elements within the gay community...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth25 June 1935
CityBridgeport, CT
CountryUnited States of America
It's a major step for us. This is our Live 8, this is a mass-market moment for the Internet and for us.
We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
We didn't exist. Ronald Reagan didn't say the word 'AIDS' until 1987. I've tried desperately to get a meeting in the White House; Gay Men's Health Crisis is already an established organization. I have a certain presence.
Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.
We're making adjustments every minute based on how things are holding up.
We're going to bring this color commentary to the Web. It enables us to take more programming to users.
This is the second phase of our plan to re-launch all of our websites as broadband channels.
This is the second phase of our plan to re-launch all of our Web sites as broadband channels. We're going to use this as a home-base for shows and programming we haven't been able to do before.
This major expansion of CBSNews.com is designed to capture an audience that is increasingly looking for news and information at all times of the day ... and using the Internet for that purpose.
There is an awakening occurring at the traditional media companies.
We are going to put our content in every form on every device. We're testing them all.
So far everything is going very well except that one sound feed.
If we can create a good consumer platform, it wouldn't surprise me that other companies would come to us as they do on the network.
If you believe as I do that we're an honest, hard-working news organization, all you need to do is have the ability to explain how you do what you do and they'll understand.