but it was probably counted by the state as Covid-19.
Posted on 05/27/2020 4:23:07 PM PDT by Salman
NEW YORK (AP) — Larry Kramer, the playwright whose angry voice and pen raised theatergoers’ consciousness about AIDS and roused thousands to militant protests in the early years of the epidemic, has died at 84.
Bill Goldstein, a writer who was working on a biography of Kramer, confirmed the news to The Associated Press. Kramer’s husband, David Webster, told The New York Times that Kramer died Wednesday of pneumonia.
“We have lost a giant of a man who stood up for gay rights like a warrior. His anger was needed at a time when gay men’s deaths to AIDS were being ignored by the American government,” said Elton John in a statement.
Kramer, who wrote “The Normal Heart” and founded the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, or ACT UP, lost his lover to acquired immune deficiency syndrome in 1984 and was himself infected with the virus. He also suffered from hepatitis B and received a liver transplant in 2001 because the virus had caused liver failure.
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another FDRQ bites the big one...
He didn't have room after he packed all the fudge.
Dang you beat me to it.
Why couldn’t it have been him instead of Freddie Mercury in 1991?
But whatever you do, don’t be a smoker, or drive without a seatbelt, or get on a motorcycle without a helmet, or go in public without your mask or so on.
Some risky lifestyle choices seem to elevate you to the status of protected class.
Only man in the who dies with a compromised immune system, hiv, hepatitis, hepatitis and is not coded COVID-19. THIS WAS THE FEAR ALL ALONG. NY is loaded with comorbitities like his. Can’t ostracize our darlings now can we.
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In 1977, Asimov suffered a heart attack. In December 1983, he had triple bypass surgery at NYU Medical Center, during which he contracted HIV from a blood transfusion.[94] When his HIV status was understood, his physicians warned that if he publicized it, the anti-AIDS prejudice would likely extend to his family members.
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In other words, “Don’t sue us, bro! Your reputation will suffer and your family will be humiliated!”
Got that right. Maybe some doofus will figure out that STDs are contagious also. Maybe..if and when a new flu show up next year...we’ll know how to stop the contagion with proper physical distancing without stopping the economy.
Rest in torment, you filthy, God-hating sodomite.
Prayers for a deeply misguided soul.
You left off the glory hole.
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