About this Book

Larry Kramer, America's highest-profile gay man, is known world-wide as an activist, polemicist, essayist, playwright, novelist, film producer and scriptwriter, and -- since 1988 -- as a person living with HIV. As the founder of Gay Men's Health Crisis and ACT UP, he has revolutionized the way we look at medicine and disease. His film adaptation of Women in Love, his novel Faggots and his play The Normal Heart have created controversy around the world.

In this premiere anthology, leading writers and observers of the gay, AIDS, theatre, film and literary communities attempt to assess Kramer's unique contribution -- in each of his many fields of activity -- to American public life and specifically to the gay community.