Quotes by Larry Kramer

Larry Kramer

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.

Seductive

Views

Writing

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

Definitions

Modern

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.

Aids

Needs

Plague

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

By nature, Im an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.

Believe

Optimistic

Persons

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.

Gay

Pride

Thinking

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

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.

Feelings

Self

Yale

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.

Gay

Thinking

Vocabulary

I don’t consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools.

Artist

Fighting

Men

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Given

Hate

Heart

Honey

Ideas

Inability

Issues

Letting Go

Libel

Love

Love Is

Mean

Media

Men

Mind

Modern

Movement

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New York

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Quotes by Larry Kramer

Larry Kramer

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.

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 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.

By nature, Im an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I don’t consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools.

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