In the early 1980s, as AIDS ravaged the gay community in the U.S., two people emerged as the first “poster boy” and “poster mom” of the epidemic — even as celebrities shied away from the cause and ...

At CBS and ABC, he pursued news segments aimed at destigmatizing gay life and drawing attention to an epidemic that at the time was largely overlooked. By Miguel Salazar Joseph Lovett, a broadcast ...

Larry Kramer – writer, playwright, activist, and author of the 1985 play The Normal Heart – has been a polarising figure in queer politics. On the one hand, his activist energy in the early years of ...