Kramer, Larry
Currently alive, at 73 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Authors, Dramatist
1935 - Born on the 25th of June in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
1953 - He enrolled in Yale where, he tried to kill himself by overdosing on aspirin.
1957 - He received his B.A. in English. After graduation he became assistant to first the President of Columbia Pictures, and later to the President of United Artists.
1983 - Kramer had co-founded the GMHC but had resigned from its board of directors in 1983.
1987 - He founded ACT UP, the Aids Coalition to Unleash Power. the international AIDS advocacy and protest organization.
1991 - Kramer and his partner, architect David Webster.
2001 - At the age 66, Kramer was on the brink of death from end-stage liver disease caused by hepatitis B, a common infection for people with HIV.
2001 - He received the new liver on the 21st of December. As of 2007, the liver and Kramer are still working.
- Arthur Kramer endowed Yale with $1 million to be spent over five years to finance the Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies. The money would pay visiting professors and a proram coordinator for conferences, guest speakers and other events.
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Faggots by Larry Kramer (Paperback - Jun 1, 2000) Very few writers have the prescience or audacity to produce one of the standard works of their era--not a classic, necessarily, but a book that defines its own cultural moment in startling new terms,...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Currie, Kay, Kramer and Roosevelt's Conflict of Laws: Cases and Comments by David P. Currie and Herma Hill Kay and Larry Kramer and Kermit Roosevelt (Hardcover - Aug 18, 2006) The Seventh Edition continues the tradition of organizing the teaching of conflicts around the broad themes reflected in different intellectual approaches to the problem. Part I builds a model for... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review by Larry D. Kramer (Paperback - Dec 8, 2005) In this groundbreaking interpretation of America's founding and of its entire system of judicial review, Larry Kramer reveals that the colonists fought for and created a very different system--and...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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The Tragedy of Today's Gays by Larry Kramer (Paperback - Apr 21, 2005) With equal parts eloquence and urgency, common sense and patriotism, Kramer writes a concise history of AIDS and despairs that gays have become a tragic people: A lack of civic and political... |
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The Normal Heart and The Destiny of Me by Larry Kramer (Kindle Edition - Oct 1, 2000) The Normal Heart, set during the early days of the AIDS epidemic, is the impassioned story of Ned Weeks. The play is a moving denunciation of the ignorance and fear that lead to the worldwide plague...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Conflict of Laws: Cases, Comments, Questions (American Casebook Series) by David P. Currie and Herma Hill Kay and Larry Kramer (Hardcover - Jun 25, 2001) Studying choice of law is useful not merely for its own sake, but also for the purpose of understanding other types of conflicts. The organization of this book reflects this conception. Part I...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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