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LARRY KRAMER I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fi...
LARRY KRAMER Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death thr...
LARRY KRAMER I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use t...
LARRY KRAMER We didn't exist. Ronald Reagan didn't say the word 'AIDS' until 1987. I've tried...
LARRY KRAMER Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mea...
LARRY KRAMER The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denia...
LARRY KRAMER Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier ...
LARRY KRAMER I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could ...
LARRY KRAMER AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - ...
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