OutCasting; Considering the legacy of Larry Kramer

this is our casting overtime from media for the public good producer of public media's lgbt youth programs hi i'm sarah percy news participant in nineteen eighty three larry kramer a longtime aids activist who died on may twenty seven two thousand twenty wrote this article doesn't scare the blank out of you wear in real trouble the article was entitled one thousand one hundred top and counting and it appeared in the new york native a newspaper serving the gay and lesbian population of new york city the one thousand one hundred twelve referred to the number of confirmed a chevy its cases at that time early in the aids crisis and we meant the gay community larry kramer's southern mountain for what it was when many didn't he understood that not getting to the top in conquering it would mean a horrible illness and death from millions of people the article called the gay community into action to protect itself it didn't take long for people to realize that what larry kramer sat in the nineteen eighty three article was true the aids crisis did scare the blank out of people and use that fear to scare away the aids

activism most of light cameras weren't happened before i was even born reading about his life in the days after his death i was impressed he was an incredible force for change a towering historical figure who was also flawed and controversial anti littering such a different time that at first i couldn't relate to her or for that matter to anyone living through these cases i couldn't imagine what it must've been like to open the new year later in nineteen eighty three and read the words if we don't act immediately that we face are approaching do larry kramer and did one thousand one hundred and counting with a call to action he needed three thousand people to be ready for civil disobedience and he asked readers to send in their telephone numbers on how many people they could be counted on to provide there were no specifics given no qualifications of these people needed to have they just needed to be angry enough to show up and fight over the course of a decade and half larry kramer the groups he co founded and other activists helped

turn it from a nearly automatic death sentence into a chronic manageable disease in the years since then activists tackled other issues you brought an end to don't ask don't tell the flawed policy that allow gays to serve in the military but only if they had their sexual orientation it made marriage equality the law of the land and the other discriminatory laws overturned along the way they helped improve public attitudes towards lgbt people but lgbt people continue to be singled out for an equal treatment in countless ways every day some people are pressing the claim that the religious police permit them to discriminate against us in ways that would be impermissible for any other minority lgbt youth continued to be added greatly increased risk of bullying homelessness and suicide trans women of color continue to be murdered in an alarming rate and in addition to lgbt issues of course are society's facing crises of income inequality increasing polarization and division climate change and violence against people of color including the

recent killings of george floyd in minneapolis and ahmad artery in georgia right now these problems can seem to enormous to solve a lot of people that certainly fewer than before so he taught you need you people and they're misusing their cherry picked religious beliefs the exercises which is protected by the constitution as justification for their hatred possible solutions to climate change are opposed by powerful businesses and the politicians who support them and racial prejudice america's original sin is still out there in full force and often armed to the teeth another misuse of a constitutional right larry kramer inspired people to come together and activism his life made me realize that anyone young people in and i can make a difference something these problems and too many others to name will require our shared sense of the necessity of solving them along with larry kramer style persistence anger and determination and sustained collective action by my generation and the generations yet to come but we have to see the mountain and find ways to congress that will be a fitting way to honor

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