I forgot that San Francisco is not an angry city like New York. Gays have gotten what they wanted there over the years, unlike New York, where we had to fight for everything. Larry Kramer More Quotes by Larry Kramer More Quotes From Larry Kramer 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. Larry Kramer plague aids needs I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened here first, on his watch. If he had done what any moral human being should have done in the beginning, and put out alarms, then a lot fewer people would have gotten sick. Larry Kramer should-have people thinking This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees. Larry Kramer inability believe 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. Larry Kramer seductive views writing The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped here. Well, it hasn't, and the one thing they're not saying about Africa is that all those people are going to die; there's no way these people can be saved - none. Larry Kramer media america people I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us? Larry Kramer gay pride thinking 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. Larry Kramer yale self feelings 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. Larry Kramer gay names men I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay. Larry Kramer gay men thinking I was at Yale from 1953 to 1957, and I tried to commit suicide in my freshman year because I was gay, and I thought I was the only person in the school who was. I was just totally and utterly miserable. Larry Kramer gay suicide school We have to think bigger as writers. We have to try and change the world. Larry Kramer trying world thinking I've spent fifteen years of my life fighting for our right to be free and make love whenever, wherever... And you're telling me that all those years of what being gay stood for is wrong... and I'm a murderer. We have been so oppressed! Don't you remember how it was? Can't you see how important it is for us to love openly, without hiding and without guilt? Larry Kramer gay fighting years Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists. Larry Kramer activist artist taken The guys in New York don’t know the new media. San Francisco takes more risks as a culture. Larry Kramer san-francisco media new-york Saying someone is gay who is gay no longer constitutes defamation or slander or libel. You cannot defame someone by telling the truth. Larry Kramer libel gay telling-the-truth 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. Larry Kramer vocabulary gay thinking We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us, as if nothing is happening, going on with their own lives and not knowing what it's like, what we're going through. We're living through war, but where they're living it's peacetime, and we're all in the same country. Larry Kramer There's something, to me, cowardly about taking Truvada instead of using a condom, you're taking a drug that is poison to you, and it has lessened your energy to fight, to get involved, to do anything. Larry Kramer health-news Marriage (equality) is wonderful, (But) they'll come after (it)...This will never be out of the courts. Larry Kramer entertainment I still have it. It's my motivation. Larry Kramer entertainment