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SUMMARY:'What AIDS says about America's gays: the founding of GMHC and ACT
  UP' - Larry Kramer
DTSTART:20081027T133000Z
DTEND:20081027T150000Z
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CONTACT:Lesley Dixon
DESCRIPTION:    Larry Kramer - in his own words:\n\n    "In 1981\, with fi
 ve friends\, Larry Kramer founded Gay Men's Health Crisis\, still one of t
 he world's largest providers of services to those with AIDS. In 1987\, he 
 founded ACT UP\, (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power)\, the AIDS advocacy and
  protest organization\, which has been responsible for the development and
  release of almost every life-saving treatment for HIV/AIDS. Among his num
 erous plays is The Normal Heart\, which was selected as one of the 100 Bes
 t Plays of the 20th Century by the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain
  and is the longest running play in the history of New York's Public Theat
 re. Kramer's screenplay adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love\, a f
 ilm he also produced\, was nominated for an Academy Award. (He lived in Lo
 ndon from 1961-1970.) His novel\, Faggots\, continues to be one of the bes
 t-selling of all gay novels. He is a recipient of the Award in Literature 
 from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was the first openly gay
  person and the first creative artist to be honored by an award from Commo
 n Cause. For many years he has been writing a very long book about the pla
 gue\, The American People\, which is now some 4000 pages long. His most re
 cent book is The Tragedy of Today's Gays published by Tarcher/Penguin. It 
 will tell you much about what you need to know about AIDS\, and about Amer
 ica. "There is no question in my mind that Larry helped change medicine in
  this country. And he helped change it for the better. In American medicin
 e there are two eras. Before Larry and after Larry." Dr. Anthony Fauci of 
 the National Institutes of Health\, quoted in The New Yorker\, May 13\, 20
 02. On December 21\, 2001\, Kramer was the 22nd person co-infected with HI
 V and hepatitis B to receive a liver transplant\, from which he has miracu
 lously and spectacularly recovered. Kramer lives in New York and Connectic
 ut with his lover\, architect/designer David Webster".\n
LOCATION:Howard Building\, Downing College
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