AD“We’re not here to make friends, we’re here to raise the issues,” Mr. Kramer told Time magazine in 1990. ADWithout using the term “AIDS” — Mr. Kramer called the disease at the center of his play the “plague” — “The Normal Heart” captured the human toll of the AIDS struggle. When Edward I. Koch was mayor of New York, Mr. Kramer often accused him of neglecting the concerns of AIDS patients. After a series of heated confrontations, the building’s management ordered Mr. Kramer not to speak to the former mayor. “I yanked her away so hard she yelped,” Mr. Kramer told the New Yorker, “and I said: ‘Molly, you can’t talk to him.

Source: Washington Post May 27, 2020 16:27 UTC