If you’ve heard of Larry Kramer, then his reputation as a passionate activist with high expectations and a short fuse probably precedes him. If you don’t know him, Larry is famous for being one of the first civilians to sound the alarm even before AIDS was called AIDS and became a catastrophic worldwide epidemic that has swept away millions of lives.
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Until 1981, Larry Kramer was best known for his Academy Award-nominated screenplay for “Women in Love” and Faggots, his controversial novel about New York City’s gay subculture in the post-Stonewall 1970s. And then he picked up the New York Times on the morning of July 3, 1981 and read about a rare cancer found in forty-one gay men.
It was in that moment that Larry Kramer was—to quote gay rights champion Frank Kameny—radicalized. Larry went on to co-found @GMHC (originally known as the Gay Men’s Health Crisis) and @actupny (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), two of the leading organizations that responded to the AIDS epidemic.
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Photo: Larry Kramer, 1978. Credit: Courtesy of Larry Kramer Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
New episode! In 1981 Larry Kramer sounded an alarm almost no one wanted to hear. Gay men were dying from a mysterious disease and the only way to stop its spread was to stop having sex. The outspoken activist went on to co-found @gmhc and @actupny, two of the leading organizations in the fight against AIDS.
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Photo: Larry Kramer with his wheaten terrier, Molly, 1989.
Credit: Photo by Robert Giard courtesy of The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library.
When Deborah Johnson & Zandra Rólon Amato, veterans of the LGBTQ civil rights movement, headed out for a romantic dinner in Los Angeles in 1983, they had no idea that they’d wind up in court defending their right to be served
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Zandra Rólon Amato recalls being denied service in a romantic booth with Deborah Johnson at the Papa Choux restaurant in Los Angeles in 1983. Hear the whole story on this week’s episode via your podcatcher (subscribe at http://bit.ly/mgh-subscribe) or at this link: http://bit.ly/mgh-johnson-rolon
New episode! In 1983, Deborah Johnson and Zandra Rólon Amato went to a Los Angeles restaurant for what was supposed to be a romantic dinner. Instead they wound up in court. They fought back against discrimination and won.
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Photo: Belanger’s military portrait at age 17 ½ as a member of the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps (RCA), June 1940. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Credit: Courtesy ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.
You likely know his face from an iconic 1953 photo booth photo. But there’s a full life’s story behind that photo that includes love, heartbreak, Alfred Kinsey, and fighting for trans rights. Listen to J.J. Belanger’s story on the podcast this week via your podcatcher (subscribe here http://bit.ly/mgh-subscribe) or at this link: http://bit.ly/mgh-belanger
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New episode! J.J. Belanger had a big life that extended from the skies over Europe during World War II and the offices of the legendary Dr. Alfred Kinsey to trans rights activism before transgender rights were on anybody’s radar.
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