Oscar-nominated Larry Kramer passes away

Oscar-nominated screenwriter Larry Kramer, who also courted fame as a playwright, author, and gay rights and AIDS activist, has died. He was 84. Kramer, best known for penning the play “The Normal Heart”, passed away on Wednesday from pneumonia. After the news of his demise, celebrities including Julia Roberts and Lin-Manuel Miranda took to social media to pay tribute and express their grief, reports variety.com.

Kramer is also remembered as one of the founders of organizations Gay Men’s Health Crisis and ACT UP, which advocate for AIDS research and gay rights. Kramer also wrote the screenplays for “Women In Love”, for which he earned an Oscar nomination in 1969; 1973’s “Lost Horizon” and 2014’s film version of “The Normal Heart”, which was directed by Murphy and starred Julia Roberts. Mark Ruffalo, Matt Bomer, Taylor Kitsch, and Jim Parsons.

Apart from “The Normal Heart”, Kramer also wrote the plays “Sissies’ Scrapbook”, “A Minor Dark Age”, “Just Say No”, “A Play About A Farce”, “The Furniture Of Home” and “The Destiny Of Me”. As a novelist, Kramer wrote fiction books such as “Faggots”, “The American People Volume 1”, “Search For My Heart” and “The American People: Volume 2” and “The Brutality Of Fact

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