Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterAIDS Walk New York is the world’s largest & most visible HIV/AIDS fundraising event. It was born in 1986 out of the anguish of gay men in neighborhoods from Greenwich Village to Harlem who were first besieged by the deadly new disease. It was nurtured by the passions of New York’s diverse communities of art, culture, and … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThe iconic queer activist/writer Larry Kramer’s most celebrated work The Normal Heart is about to be revived at The National Theatre in London. This largely autobiographical play focuses on the rise of the HIV/AIDS crisis in New York City between 1981 and 1984, as seen through the eyes of writer/activist Ned Weeks, the gay founder of a prominent HIV advocacy … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThe special 20th Anniversary special multi-actor performance of David Drake’s award winning one-man playTHE NIGHT LARRY KRAMER KISSED ME is having one-night-only streamed presentation. The screening is sponsored by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and is FREE BUT donations are encouraged to Provincetown Theater, where Drake is the Artistic Director and which currently is shuttered … Continue reading
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Five years ago I got to film my very first interview. Talk about starting at the very top as my guest was LARRY KRAMER the legendary outspoken gay activist, playwright, author, film producer, and public health advocate. He was also a personal hero of mine too.
Larry was in Provincetown with his husband the architectural designer David Webster for the screening on a new documentary of his life Larry Kramer in Love and Anger, directed by his friend Jean Carlomusto. Though very frail at the time he generously agreed to the interview that the crew of PTV filmed in his hosts garden.
I was as nervous as hell facing the great man that I had admired from afar for so long. As a AIDS widower I was so indebted for his unceasing work at ACT UP and GMHC to help all of us affected by that epidemic, and as gay man had been so utterly moved by reading The Normal Heart and Faggots.
I needn’t have worried Larry is the most generous of men and never let on if he recognised my total inexperience. I remember distinctly the pleasure I had of making him laugh more than once, and making one of my camera crew cry.
That afternoon will always forever stay with me, and now that it has just been announced that Larry Kramer died today at the age of 84, I’m sharing this interview again to remember (to paraphrase writer/actor David Drake) The Day I Met Larry Kramer. May He Rest In Peace
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterTo mark Worlds Aid Day we wanted to re-release this interview that queerguru hosted for Provincetown TV earlier this summer with the leading gay activist and author Larry Kramer. We met to celebrate the launch of Jean Carlomusto’s new documentary “Larry Kramer In Love and Anger” that was about to aired on HBO as part of … Continue reading
