Author, AIDS policy advocate Larry Kramer dead at 84

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The likes of Mark Ruffalo, Joe Biden and Lin-Manuel Miranda have also honoured Kramer's life and career

NEW YORK -- Time never softened the urgency of Larry Kramer’s demands.

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NEW YORK -- Reaction to the death of Larry Kramer, the AIDS activist and playwright who turned his fury into mass protests and helped raise the profile of the disease:

NEW YORK -- Larry Kramer, the playwright whose angry voice and pen raised theatergoers’ consciousness about AIDS and roused thousands to militant protests in the early years of the epidemic, has died at 84.

By Jazz Tangcay

Larry Kramer, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter, playwright, author and trailblazing gay rights and AIDS activist best known for the Tony Award-winning The Normal Heart, has died. He was 84.

Larry Kramer, the famed playwright and AIDS activist, has died. He was 84.

By Marc Malkin

Reaction to the death of Larry Kramer, the AIDS activist and playwright who turned his fury into mass protests and helped raise the profile of the disease:

Elton John has led tributes to Larry Kramer, the playwright who raised theatregoers’ consciousness about Aids, who has died aged 84.

NEW YORK — Author Larry Kramer, whose early advocacy for a national response to AIDS as the disease first emerged in the 1980s helped raise awareness and shape healthcare policy into the 1990s, died on Wednesday at 84.