Larry Kramer To Be Honoured By Gay Mens Health Crisis

<p>The writer and gay activist LARRY KRAMER is to be honoured by Gay Men’s Health Crisis the volunteer AIDS Organisation he helped found in 1981.</p> <p> </p><p></p><p>Disagreement caused by Kramer’s confrontational style however led to his resignation, and he left to then help set up <a href="http://www.thegayuk.com/magazine/4574334751/PROFILE-Act-Up/8197167">ACT UP</a> as a more direct action alternative. The whole traumatic period was dramatized by Kramer in his award winning play THE NORMAL HEART that was adapted into a movie last year.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.thegayuk.com/magazine/4574334751/tags/LarryKramer">Mr Kramer</a>, now in very frail health, has been named the first recipient of the LARRY KRAMER ACTIVISM AWARD which <a href="http://www.thegayuk.com/magazine/4574334751/LGBT-PROFILE-Gay-Men%27s-Health-Crisis/8196903">GMHC</a> has established to recognise advocates who reflect Kramer’s ‘spirit, passion and fearlessness’. GMHC co-chair Roberta Kaplan also added that its also an attempt ‘to bring a sense of closure and healing’ between Kramer and the group.</p><p></p><p>80-year-old Mr Kramer is also the subject of the first ever documentary of his life ‘LARRY KRAMER : IN LOVE AND ANGER’ that premiered at Sundance recently, and will be screened on HBO in the US in June and on UK TV later this year. Here’s a clip of director Jean Carlomusto discussing the film and working with the great man.</p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p>by <a href="http://www.thegayuk.com/RogerWalker-Dack">Roger Walker-Dack</a></p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p>