ICYMI: Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) held its 2015 spring gala on Monday, March 23 in New York City. Longtime activist and writer Larry Kramer was honored at the event and showed up to make some fiery remarks. An excerpt from his speech:
“The main difference between the Larry Kramer who helped to start Gay Men’s Health Crisis in his living room in 1982 and ACT UP in 1987 and the Larry Kramer who stands before you now is that I no longer have any doubt that our government is content, via sins of omission or commission, to allow the extermination of my homosexual population to continue unabated.
"It is talk like this that got the original GMHC board to boot me off and out.
"It is also talk like this that enabled ACT UP to succeed in getting us our own treatments. These treatments are not good enough but have been good enough to extend our lives. Unfortunately they still come with side effects and they reward their greedy manufacturers with more money than they would make locating the cure that would end this plague.”
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