Larry Kramer in Conversation "Rediscovering the Amer. People"

The Aspen Arts Program featured award winning playwright (The Normal Heart) in conversation with Damian Woetzel, Dir. of the Aspen Art Program.  Kramer is an Acad. Award nom. screenwriter and Gay Activist.  He was named a Master Amer Dramatist by PEN/Laura Int'l Fdtn for Theater ('13.)  He is one of today's most prominent writers and activists.  This genius spoke on a myopic topic with anger directed at everyone for not being too complacent regarding hatred towards gays & a failure to cure AIDS.  Kramer is credited for bringing the AIDS to the forefront in the 80's at its inception, when AIDS patients were grossly mistreated.  I felt that Kramer's focus was directed backwards "to the 2,000 years of hatred" towards gay people, the misaligned or lacking history of the gay community.  Worst, is no cure for AIDS resulting from America's apathy.  I didn't know that Lewis & Clark were a homosexual couple nor did I know that Mark Twain was gay.  The point is, do I really need to know that (besides questioning Kramer's authority on the matter)?  And, as far as not having arrived at a cure - how about a cure for Cystic Fibrosis, ALS, cancer, the list is endless and growing. Unclarified strides for gays were begrudgingly given just in the last 2 decades.  Kramer has animus towards the NYT. The reason being Ben Bradlee gave his play a scathing review shutting down his play.  His opening comment was the most sagacious.  He said the leading London agent for playwrights told him "Don't pay any attention to what people say good or bad.  It just gets in the way of the work." Advice he admired but didn't take to heart.