Just Thinking.

While to the many unaware of his name, Larry Kramer's death is just another obituary in the times of COVID-19. However, to those aware of the history of AIDS, the literature of AIDS and the history of activism in the 1980s and 1990s, especially in the USA, Larry Kramer is a monument. An angry, raging, theatrical, loud and honest and unafraid man, who was confident and sure enough to literally scream at your face.  Larry Kramer (25 June 1935 - 27 May 2020), to those of his generation, was the black sheep of his community in the pre-AIDS years, mainly due to his incendiary, gasp-I-can't-believe-he-said-that satire Faggots . The title itself invites raised eyebrows and trepidation from readers from all walks of life. Be it the oh-so-heteros and the people of the newly recognised, newly 'healed' (by the American Psychological Association) post-Stonewall generation. All of them were aghast. Although the former seemed to accept the book better than the latter. This reaction t