Larry Kramer
Weill Cornell's Humanities and Medicine Program will present "A Conversation with Larry Kramer" to be held on Monday, Jan. 13, at 5 p.m. in Uris Auditorium.
Mr. Kramer is a renowned playwright, outspoken AIDS activist and co-founder of the Gay Men's Health Crisis. His efforts have dramatically influenced the attention that AIDS is given on a medical, political and public level. In 1987, Mr. Kramer founded ACT UP, an AIDS advocacy and protest organization. In 1998, he established the Treatment Data Project, which collects treatment data via the Internet from several hundred thousand people with HIV around the world.
A recent recipient of a liver transplant, Mr. Kramer is also very much engaged in the ethical questions involved in transplantation. Mr. Kramer, who is HIV-positive, was born in Connecticut, and grew up in Washington, D.C. He is a recipient of many awards, including the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.