We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic [AIDS] every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there,… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
We didn't exist. Ronald Reagan didn't say the word 'AIDS' until 1987. I've tried desperately to get a meeting in the White… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mean dislike, or… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened here first, on… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
“Holy shit," somebody muttered in the dark. "A virgin," sputtered another. "I didn't know they still made them." "He just did.” — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
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… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
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… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I’m telling my story as a political document. — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic [AIDS] every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
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. — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there be any… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
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… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words 'gay… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image