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Larry Kramer, playwright and AIDS activist, dies at 84

by AP Entertainment Writer
| May 29, 2020 12:03 AM

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.

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