These architects see their work as a force for social justice—the Weeksville Heritage Center, the Marcus Garvey Community Center, and the building in which we’ll meet, the Louis Armstrong Center. This will be like talking to lions in their den but with less chance of being clawed. I hope. Presented with Open House New York. … Continue reading »
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301: Larry Kramer
He wrote Ken Russell’s Women in Love, geeze, 50 years ago, then wrote plays (The Normal Heart) and novels (Faggots). Amidst the emerging AIDS epidemic, he helped found the Gay Men’s Health Crisis and Act Up. Accomplished, right? Not according to him. “I feel like I failed,” he says. A life examined. Continue reading »