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An interview with Larry Kramer, founder of Gay Men's Health Crisis and an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, bestselling novelist, and author of plays, is presented. Among other things, Kramer talks about the current state of the gay movement.
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'You Can Never Not Fight Back!'
A CONVERSATION WITH LARRY KRAMER ABOUT THE CURRENT STATE OF GAY ACTIVISM
In a blistering speech at Cooper Union on November 7, his first in over a decade, author and activist Larry Kramer told a packed crowd that "as of November 2, gay rights are officially dead."The founder of Gay Men's Health Crisis and of ACT UP, Kramer, 69, is an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, bestselling novelist, and author of the plays The Normal Heart and The Destiny of Me and of a collection of essays, Reports From the Holocaust. He spoke with Alisa Solomon about the current state of the gay movement.ALISA SOLOMON: Since the election, the national lesbian-gay-bi-trans groups have been regrouping and asking what went wrong. All 11 state ballot initiatives defining marriage as between a man and a woman passed-and some of them even deny civil-union protections for gay and lesbian couples. Last week, people in th...See the full content of this document
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