[1] Paul Russell, The Gay 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Gay Men and Lesbians, Past and Present (2002), page 186. William J. Mann in Gay Pride (2004) calls him "the gay conscience during those terrible years of the late 1980s." See also Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, Contemporary Gay American Novelists: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook (1993), page 244.
Father: George Kramer
Mother: Rea Wishengrad
Brother: Arthur Kramer (attorney)
Husband: David Webster (architect, together since 1991, m. 2013, until his death)
High School: Woodrow Wilson High School, Washington, DC
University: BA English, Yale University (1957)
ACT UP Founder (1987-)
Gay Men's Health Crisis Co-Founder
Hillary Clinton for President
Obama for America
Suicide Attempt 1953 (swallowed 200 aspirin tablets)
Liver Transplant 21-Dec-2001
Risk Factors: Hepatitis, AIDS
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Every Act of Life (23-Apr-2018) · Himself
How to Survive a Plague (22-Jan-2012) · Himself
Vito (14-Oct-2011) · Himself
Making the Boys (18-Jul-2009) · Himself
Outrage (24-Apr-2009) · Himself
Author of books:
Faggots (1978, novel)
Wrote plays:
The Normal Heart (1985)
Just Say No, A Play about a Farce (1988)
The Destiny of Me (1992)
