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    Larry Kramer. Laurence David Kramer (June 25, 1935 – May 27, 2020) was an American playwright, author, film producer, public health advocate, and gay rights activist. He began his career rewriting scripts while working for Columbia Pictures, which led him to London, where he worked with United Artists.

  2. May 27, 2020 · Larry Kramer, the noted writer whose raucous, antagonistic campaign for an all-out response to the AIDS crisis helped shift national health policy in the 1980s and ’90s, died on Wednesday morning...

  3. May 27, 2020 · Kramer died Wednesday morning of pneumonia in Manhattan, Will Schwalbe, his friend and literary executor, told NPR. He was 84.

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  4. May 27, 2020 · Kramer died from pneumonia, his close friend and literary executor, William Schwalbe, told CNN. “Larry made a huge contribution to our world as an activist but also as a writer,” said Schwalbe...

  5. May 28, 2020 · Larry Kramer, the playwright whose angry voice and pen raised theatergoers' consciousness about AIDS and roused thousands to militant protests in the early years of the epidemic, has died at...

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  6. May 29, 2020 · Larry Kramer, an outspoken activist and playwright who pushed public health officials to take the AIDS epidemic seriously, died of pneumonia on Wednesday morning. He was 84 years old.

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  8. May 27, 2020 · Larry Kramer, a New York playwright whose theatrical — often confrontational — tactics forced a nation to push aside its apathy and homophobia to confront the Aids crisis, has died. He was 84....