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
Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life. There were bars, but you sort of snuck in and snuck out. Activism and gay pride simply didn't exist. I don't even think the word 'gay' was in existence.
I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?
No law school is going to continue to deny the military access if it means putting the medical schools and science departments out of business.
It's a major step for us. This is our Live 8, this is a mass-market moment for the Internet and for us.
So far everything is going very well except that one sound feed.
We're very pleased to offer this event programming for free on the web.
At the very least we will be able to pick up very quickly what the side effects are. And this is something that standard clinical testing doesn't (offer) for several years.
The story doesn't end any more when you post it, when you put it on the TV.
Next year, the audience will be bigger because broadband video is a maturing medium.
Most people would be surprised to find out these issue are debated as hard as they are and news organizations work as hard as they can to avoid bias.
We're looking at other shows now. We want to go gradually. We've never done this before.
News has turned into a loop. You no longer publish a story and you're done. A news story is posted or viewed, and it's the beginning of the process.
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.