Friday, 26 July 2013

Larry Kramer Is Married in Hospital Ceremony

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Larry Kramer and David Webster
Published: July 26, 2013

William David Webster and Larry Kramer were married Wednesday in New York. Eve M. Preminger, a retired Surrogate Court judge in New York, officiated at NYU Langone Medical Center, where Mr. Kramer was recovering from surgery.

Courtesy of David Webster
David Webster, left, and Larry Kramer
Mr. Webster (left), 66, goes by David. He is the principal designer and the owner of an architectural design firm in New York that bears his name. He graduated from Columbia.

He is a son of the late Beryl Murrell Webster and the late William C. Webster, who lived in White Plains.

Mr. Kramer, 78, is an author and a founder of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis and the protest group Act Up, in New York. His autobiographical play, “The Normal Heart,” about the early days of the AIDS crisis, opened at the Public Theater in 1985 and was revived on Broadway in 2011. He wrote the screenplay for the 1969 film “Women in Love,” of which he was also a producer, and for the movie version of “The Normal Heart,” which is now in production. Mr. Kramer graduated from Yale, where a program in gay and lesbian studies was named for him.

He is a son of the late Rea Kramer and the late George Kramer, who lived in Washington.

A version of this article appeared in print on July 28, 2013, on page ST14 of the New York edition with the headline: David Webster, Larry Kramer.

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