You'd think one day we'd learn. You don't get anything unless you fight for it, united and with visible numbers. If ACT UP taught us anything, it taught us that. Larry Kramer More Quotes by Larry Kramer More Quotes From Larry Kramer Being gay is a natural normal beautiful variation on being human. Period. End of subject. Therefore, any argument which says differently is an immoral supremacist one. Call it out as such. ... Be outraged, offended, angry and intolerant of any discussion or any one who describes you as unequal, undeserving or unnatural for being just as you are. Larry Kramer normal gay beautiful 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 other issue in the face of death, possible extinction? Larry Kramer issues movement gay Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mean dislike, or feel uncomfortable with. I mean hate. Downright hate. Down and dirty hate. Larry Kramer hate mean dirty The point about L-O-V-E is that we hate the word. Because we vulgarize it. It should be taboo, forbidden from utterance for many years, till we've found a new and a better idea. Larry Kramer hate love ideas I love being gay. I love gay people. I think we're better than other people. I really do. I think we're smarter and more talented and more aware. I do, I totally do. I really do think all of these things. And I try very hard to remember all this. Larry Kramer gay love-is thinking Mr. Do-Nothing Obama will say today, 'Lets think of all the poor dead people' - or 'let's honor all the dead' instead of fighting for the living. He has been really useless in terms of both HIV and gay issues. He is simply not a leader. He may be president, but he is not a leader. Larry Kramer gay fighting thinking By nature, Im an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am. Larry Kramer optimistic persons believe Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I’m telling my story as a political document. Larry Kramer given political stories 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 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 crazy war country You do not get more with honey than with vinegar! Larry Kramer vinegar honey AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one. Larry Kramer aids modern definitions I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools. Larry Kramer fighting artist men 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 bars, but you sort of snuck in and snuck out. Activism and gay pride simply didn't exist. I don't even think the word 'gay' was in existence. Larry Kramer gay pride thinking 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 been there; but we have to claim it, and identify who was in it, and articulate what's in our minds and hearts and all our creative contributions to this earth. And until we do that, and until we organise ourselves block by neighborhood by city by state into a united visible community that fights back, we're doomed. Larry Kramer block real heart Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful. Larry Kramer gay men world 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 mind letting-go death The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America. Larry Kramer stupidity gay america It’s so wonderful being a gay person. I said that before. I’m going to say it again. I love being gay. And I love gay people. I think we’re better than other people. I really do. I think we’re smarter and more talented and more aware and I do, I do, I totally do. And I think we’re more tuned in to what’s happening, tuned into the moment, tuned into our emotions, and other people’s emotions, and we’re better friends. I really do think all of these things. And I try not to forget them. Larry Kramer gay love-is thinking Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a positive force, because it allows sensible people to realize how stupid and vile their beliefs are. Larry Kramer belief stupid people 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
