(UTV | COLOMBO) – US playwright, author and Aids activist Larry Kramer has died at the age of 84.
Kramer wrote the landmark 1985 play The Normal Heart, about the early years of Aids, and 1992’s The Destiny of Me.
He was a pivotal and confrontational figure during the Aids crisis in the 1980s, co-founding the first gay men’s support group and aggressively lobbying officials to take action.
He had made his name as a screenwriter, earning an Oscar nomination in 1971 for adapting DH Lawrence’s Women in Love.
He also published the best-selling but controversial novel Faggots in 1977.
At the start of the 1980s, he put his energies into rallying support and awareness for the fight against HIV and Aids.