The Herald

Tributes to writer and activist Kramer

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STARS including Sir Elton John, Julia Roberts and Lin-manuel Miranda have paid tribute to US playwright, author and Aids activist Larry Kramer.

Mr Kramer died this week at the age of 84.

He was a pivotal and confrontat­ional figure during the Aids crisis in the 1980s, and depicted the era in his landmark 1985 play The Normal Heart.

Sir Elton tweeted that it was “the saddest news” and that the world had “lost a giant of a man who stood up for gay rights like a warrior”.

Roberts, who starred alongside Mark Ruffalo in the movie adaptation of The Normal Heart, told Variety: “He was ferocious and tireless in his beliefs.

“A true hero that so many people owe their lives to today. I was honoured to spend time in his orbit.”

“Rest in power, King!” added Ruffalo online.

Kramer had made his name as a screenwrit­er, earning an Oscar nomination in 1971 for adapting DH Lawrence’s Women in Love.

He also published the best-selling but controvers­ial novel Faggots in 1977.

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