Larry Kramer

Born June 25, 1935, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Larry Kramer started working at age 23 in a management position at Columbia Pictures. From there he went on to rewrite and polish scripts in the studio. He first broke into film credits with  Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush , the forgotten 1968 bawdy comedy for teens.

The following year, she received an Academy Award nomination for the screenplay adapted from Women in Love , a film version of DH Lawrence ‘s novel , directed by Ken Russell . He is also behind the script for the 1973 version of Lost Horizons.

From the beginning of his career, Kramer wanted to explore the homosexual theme. It was easier for him to talk about this issue on the New York stage, where he debuted in 1973 with the play Sissies’ Scrapbook , about a quartet of friends, one of them openly gay. He raised a huge controversy with his first novel, Fagots, from 1978, because the gay community claimed that he gave a bad image of his group, due to his realistic portrayal of a character addicted to drugs and sexual excesses. “People turned their backs on me,” he recalled in an interview in The New Yorker. “Do you know what my real crime was? I put the truth in writing.”

He regained favor with the community after the outbreak of AIDS in the 1980s. He became a leader calling for measures to investigate the disease. This affair inspired his later stage play The Normal Heart , about a writer who cares for his mistress in the early days of his illness.