Larry Kramer
Author
Series
Description
In The American People: Volume 2: The Brutality of Fact, Larry Kramer completes his radical reimagining of his country's history. Ranging from the brothels of 1950s Washington, D.C., to the activism of the 1980s and beyond, Kramer offers an elaborate phantasmagoria of bigoted conspiracists in the halls of power and ordinary individuals suffering their consequences. With wit and bite, Kramer explores (among other things) the sex lives of every recent...
3) Outrage
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Reveals politicians who lobby for anti-gay legislation while leading secret lives, the double standards the media sets for these politicians, and the harm inflicted. Includes analysis from Congressman Barney Frank, former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey, activist Larry Kramer, and more.
Publisher
Sundance Selects
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"[T]he story of the brave young men and women who successfully reversed the tide of an epidemic, demanded the attention of a fearful nation, and stopped AIDS from becoming a death sentence. This improbable group of activists bucked oppression and infiltrated government agencies and the pharmaceutical industry, helping to identify promising new medication and treatments and move them through trials and into drugstores in record time."--Container.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 143 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A film drama that tells the dramatic, poignant and often-exasperating story of the early days of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early '80s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the burgeoning epidemic to a city and nation in denial.