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Larry Kramer, Playwright and AIDS Activist, Dies at 84

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By Gordon Cox Theater Editor Larry Kramer, the writer and influential gay activist who pressed the U.S. government and the medical establishment to respond to the AIDS epidemic, has died.

He was 84. Kramer died Wednesday from pneumonia, his husband David Webster told the New York Times. Earlier in his life, Kramer was a screenwriter with credits including “Women in Love” and the 1973 musical “Lost Horizon.” Spurred by the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s, Kramer became a fierce

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