Larry Kramer: The American People, Vol. 1: Responses

Larry Kramer's The American People, Volume I, Search for My Heart, A Novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 7, 2015) is a fictional meditation on history, especially on gay and lesbian history. So OutHistory is soliciting and publishing responses by historians, other scholars, and the public to this historical novel. Send comments to outhistory@gmail.com

Kramer and other activists founded the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) in New York in 1987. He is also known for his novel Faggots (1978), the play The Normal Heart (1985), and as a Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Destiny of Me (1992).