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¿Quién es Larry Kramer?
(Es, porque un legado de ese tamaño JAMÁS morirá).
Abro hilo.
(Ese es #LarryKramer en la sala de mi casa)
Larry Kramer es uno de los activistas LGBT+ más importantes de la historia. Su nombre está a lado de figuras como Harvey Milk o Marsha P. Johnson. Su lucha fue contra el sida, fue la voz que definió la acción en contra de la enfermedad y posteriormente del VIH.
A Larry Kramer lo caracterizó una cosa: el enojo. En 1981 fundó la Gay Men’s Health Crisis, la primera organización para personas con VIH. La fundó en su departamento de Nueva York, tras darse a conocer la nota del New York Times sobre “El raro cáncer” que atacaba a homosexuales.
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Theatre is written for its time, and on occasion we get something written in fire that turns out to have lasting value. Here's my @denverpost review of #LarryKramer’s #TheNormalHeart, when it was finally staged on Broadway in 2011. Anyone hear the drumbeats echoing? @EllenBarkin
By John Moore
"The Normal Heart," Larry Kramer's 1985, fact-based AIDS polemic, may be the angriest play since "Medea." Actor Joe Mantello paces throughout like a rabid dog, his right hand almost always glued inside his jacket pocket as if concealing a gun he's about to unload...
on everyone in attendance. But the words he spits out do the job quite nicely on their own. Kramer exonerates no one from allowing the worst plague in 80 years to go all but unchallenged between 1981-84. Not Ronald Reagan, The New York Times or the medical community....
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