Larry Kramer - Bitter and Out of Touch, Much?

Larry Kramer did great things - he is a major part of gay history, and we should all be extremely grateful for the things he has done.

HOWEVER, quotes like the one below, from a recent Salon interview about "what is wrong with gay men today", are DISGUSTING.

"I never said don't have sex, but what's so hard about using rubbers? It doesn't seem to require much intelligence to figure that one out. I don't have much sympathy for people who seroconvert now, who know about AIDS. I don't care if you were on drugs or whether you were out of it in the heat of passion or whatever. Your cock is a lethal instrument. It can murder people."

Please, tell us how comparing gay men's cocks to murder weapons is helpful?

Read the rest, see what you think. That kind of utter hateful crap makes it pretty damn hard to listen to the rest of what he has to say - all of which isn't rubbish...

Homosex in Colonial America - Larry Kramer

via Huffington Post, by Larry Kramer

No, there was no right word for it that you wanted to use for it if you were doing it. Buggery and sodomy connoted anal penetration and thus were, in many places, punishable by death.

That does not mean that men did not know they were gay (to use today's word), know what to do with their cocks, know when they were smitten with other men, know where to go to find them, know what it meant to get violently rejected, or the reverse, find a friend, in other words, the whole gestalt, to use another of today's terms. A penis has never been something that you pick up and put down and put away idly without consideration.

Read the rest.

27 Arrested at ACT UP 20th Birthday Demo

500 March, Demand Single-Payer Health Care


Check out Rex Wockner's especially visual coverage of ACT Up's 20th birthday. Looked like a demo from the good ole days....

It's all about single payer, universal healthcare kiddies!

Jim

Is Larry Kramer relevant?

The April issue of POZ has a long interview with ACT-Up founder Larry Kramer by Tim Murphy. Kramer recently spoke in New York on the 20th anniversary of ACT-Up. Click here for his speech.

I am on a gay men's listserv that is currently in the midst a rather rancorous debate about him.

What do you think? Does Larry Kramer speak to you? Do you find what he has to say relevant to you today?

Please share.

Jim