Writer and Activist Sarah Schulman on The Normal Heart, Being Friends With Larry Kramer, and the Whitewashing of AIDS History
With The Normal Heart, Larry Kramer's largely autobiographical play turned recent HBO movie, it's impossible and maybe pointless to try to separate the personal from the political. The play's protagonist"and Kramer's stand-in"is Ned Weeks (Mark Ruffalo), the splenetic activist-writer who screamed at everyone who wouldn't listen, and even those who ... More »