What is Larry Kramer?
{{Infobox writer |name = Larry Kramer |image = Larry Kramer 2010 - David Shankbone.jpg |imagesize = |caption = Larry Kramer in April 2010 |pseudonym = |birth_date = {{Birth date|1935|6|25}} |birth_place = [[Bridgeport, Connecticut]], [[United States|U.S.]] |death_date = {{death date and age|2020|5|27|1935|6|25}} |death_place = [[Manhattan]], [[New York]], U.S. |occupation = Screenwriter, film producer, playwright, author, activist |nationality = American |period = 1960s&ndash;2020 |spouse = {{marriage|David Webster|2013}} |genre = |subject = [[Gay community]], [[AIDS]] activism |movement = }} '''Larry Kramer''' (June 25, 1935 &ndash; May 27, 2020) was an American screenwriter, film producer, playwright, author, and public health and [[LGBT rights]] activist. He began his career rewriting scripts while working for [[Columbia Pictures]]. There he wrote the screenplay for the 1969 film ''[[Women in Love (film)|Women in Love]]''. He earned an [[Academy Award]] nomination for [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Adapted Screenplay]] for his work. Kramer was [[coming out|openly]] [[gay]].<ref name=WaPo>{{citation |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/08/AR2005050800988.html |title=The Pessivist; AIDS Activist Larry Kramer, Hoarse From Speaking Truth to Power |first=Jose Antonio |last=Vargas |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=2005-05-09 |accessdate=2007-09-23 |page=C01}}</ref> In 1988, he was [[diagnose]]d with [[hepatitis B]] and [[HIV]].<ref>[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/aids/interviews/kramer.html PSB interview]</ref> He had a [[liver]] [[transplant]] in 2001. His brother was lawyer [[Arthur Kramer]] (1927&ndash;2008). Kramer died of [[pneumonia]] in [[New York City]] on May 27, 2020. He was 84.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/us/larry-kramer-dead.html?referringSource=articleShare | work=The New York Times | first=Daniel | last=Lewis | title=Larry Kramer, Author and Outspoken AIDS