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From 2006: AIDS activist Larry Kramer: "I wasn't a phony ... I fought for life"

The playwright, screenwriter and AIDS activist Larry Kramer died Wednesday, May 27, 2020, at the age of 84. In this profile originally broadcast on "CBS Sunday Morning" on June 25, 2006, Kramer talked with Harry Smith about fighting indifference in the battle against AIDS; the founding of Gay Men's Health Crisis and ACT UP; and becoming a pariah within the gay community due to his outspoken remarks.
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