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Larry Kramer

While promoting his new movie, The Kids Are All Right, Lisa Cholodenko’s film, Mark Ruffalo has announced that he will take the lead role in a film adaptation of The Normal Heart, a play by Larry Kramer, founder of Act Up in New York in 1987. Two years ago, the famous author and gay activist (also co-founder of Gay Men’s Health Crisis) had put on this semi-autobiographical play about the AIDS explosion in the early 80’s, a scathing attack and cry of rage against the ignorance and denial of the government confronted with the epidemic, at a time when people spoke of a “gay cancer”. (more...)

The New York Times has an interesting article on this season's gay Broadway productions as a sign of the changing demographics of gay America. The article suggests that gay theatre, much like the big and small screen Will & Grace et al), is in the midst of a seismic shift from depictions of tragedy and crisis to less political exposés on dating and relationships. Queerty readers weigh-in.