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  • Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.

  • I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words 'gay community.' Expunge that expression from your vocabulary. We are not a community.

  • This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees.

    Larry Kramer (2015). “The American People: Volume 1: Search for My Heart: A Novel”, p.341, Macmillan
  • I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.

    Yale   Self   Feelings  
  • It’s so wonderful being a gay person. I said that before. I’m going to say it again. I love being gay. And I love gay people. I think we’re better than other people. I really do. I think we’re smarter and more talented and more aware and I do, I do, I totally do. And I think we’re more tuned in to what’s happening, tuned into the moment, tuned into our emotions, and other people’s emotions, and we’re better friends. I really do think all of these things. And I try not to forget them.

    Gay   Love Is   Thinking  
  • The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.

    Gay   America   Stupidity  
  • I was at Yale from 1953 to 1957, and I tried to commit suicide in my freshman year because I was gay, and I thought I was the only person in the school who was. I was just totally and utterly miserable.

    Suicide   School   Gay  
  • By nature, Im an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.

  • You'd think one day we'd learn. You don't get anything unless you fight for it, united and with visible numbers. If ACT UP taught us anything, it taught us that.

    "Happy Birthday, ACT UP, Wherever You Are" by Larry Kramer, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2012.
  • Mr. Do-Nothing Obama will say today, 'Lets think of all the poor dead people' - or 'let's honor all the dead' instead of fighting for the living. He has been really useless in terms of both HIV and gay issues. He is simply not a leader. He may be president, but he is not a leader.

    Fighting   Gay   Thinking  
  • You do not get more with honey than with vinegar!

    Honey   Vinegar  
    "You Can Never Not Fight Back!". Interview with Alisa Solomon, www.villagevoice.com. December 7, 2004.
  • Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I’m telling my story as a political document.

  • I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.

    Gay   Men   Thinking  
  • I love being gay. I love gay people. I think we're better than other people. I really do. I think we're smarter and more talented and more aware. I do, I totally do. I really do think all of these things. And I try very hard to remember all this.

    Gay   Love Is   Thinking  
  • We have to think bigger as writers. We have to try and change the world.

    Thinking   Trying   World  
    "The making of Larry Kramer's Americans" by David Leavitt, www.newyorker.com. May 19, 2015.
  • Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

    Taken   Artist   Activist  
  • Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life. There were bars, but you sort of snuck in and snuck out. Activism and gay pride simply didn't exist. I don't even think the word 'gay' was in existence.

    Pride   Gay   Thinking  
  • I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened here first, on his watch. If he had done what any moral human being should have done in the beginning, and put out alarms, then a lot fewer people would have gotten sick.

  • The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped here. Well, it hasn't, and the one thing they're not saying about Africa is that all those people are going to die; there's no way these people can be saved - none.

    Media   America   People  
  • Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mean dislike, or feel uncomfortable with. I mean hate. Downright hate. Down and dirty hate.

    Hate   Dirty   Mean  
    "AIDS is a plague allowed to happen" By Larry Kramer, www.cnn.com. January 14, 2011.
  • Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.

    Gay   Men   World  
  • The only way we'll have real pride is when we demand recognition of a culture that isn't just sexual. It's all there--all throughhistory we've been there; but we have to claim it, and identify who was in it, and articulate what's in our minds and hearts and all our creative contributions to this earth. And until we do that, and until we organise ourselves block by neighborhood by city by state into a united visible community that fights back, we're doomed.

    Real   Block   Heart  
    Larry Kramer (2007). “The Normal Heart and The Destiny of Me: Two Plays”, p.98, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.

    Needs   Aids   Plague  
    "AIDS is a plague allowed to happen" By Larry Kramer, www.cnn.com. January 14, 2011.
  • I don't mind about the dead ones. They're dead. The worst of it is, they cling to the living and won't let go.

    Death   Letting Go   Mind  
  • The point about L-O-V-E is that we hate the word. Because we vulgarize it. It should be taboo, forbidden from utterance for many years, till we've found a new and a better idea.

    Love   Hate   Ideas  
  • Being gay is a natural normal beautiful variation on being human. Period. End of subject. Therefore, any argument which says differently is an immoral supremacist one. Call it out as such. ... Be outraged, offended, angry and intolerant of any discussion or any one who describes you as unequal, undeserving or unnatural for being just as you are.

    Beautiful   Gay   Normal  
  • I forgot that San Francisco is not an angry city like New York. Gays have gotten what they wanted there over the years, unlike New York, where we had to fight for everything.

    New York   Fighting   Gay  
  • Saying someone is gay who is gay no longer constitutes defamation or slander or libel. You cannot defame someone by telling the truth.

    Larry Kramer (1990). “Reports from the Holocaust: Making of an AIDS Activist”
  • AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.

    "AIDS is a plague allowed to happen" By Larry Kramer, www.cnn.com. January 14, 2011.
  • George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.

    Gay   Men   Names  
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