Larry Kramer: Interview

"To say Larry Kramer is polarizing is like saying Rush Limbaugh is a little bit conservative. The Pulitzer-nominated playwright, screenwriter, author and activist has been one of the most controversial figures in American gay life over the past 30 years. He first incensed gay men in 1978 with "Faggots," his eerily prescient novel that critiqued the gay community's culture of promiscuity. And as a co-founder of Gay Men's Health Crisis and the founder of ACT UP, the influential AIDS activist group, he became one of the most strident and passionate voices in the early years of the AIDS crisis. While making countless enemies, most notably New York Mayor Ed Koch, he was one of the people most responsible for drawing attention to the disease."

http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2011/ ... index.html (http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2011/04/23/larry_kramer_interview/index.html)

[Koh Samui Luv]

"In those cases where children do have sex with their homosexual elders... I submit that often, very often, the child desires the activity, and perhaps even solicits it, either because of a natural curiosity... or because he or she is homosexual and innately knows it. ... And unlike girls or women forced into rape or traumatized, most gay men have warm memories of their earliest and early sexual encounters; when we share these stories with each other, they are invariably positive ones."

~ Larry Kramer, Reports from the Holocaust, New York, St. Martin's Press, 1991

Thanks for the post. It's people like him that allow the current generation not to have to have a Larry Kramer of their own. In some ways I think that is a bit of a loss.

[joe552]

Remember reading him back in the day. As a teen in Ireland it was powerful stuff. still has a lot of sensible things to say.