Kramer's Nuremberg vision.

As media coverage of the 25th anniversary of AIDS winds down, longtime activist and author Larry Kramer is ramping up a new crusade. The title of his latest article-"Nuremberg Trials Nuremberg Trials

surviving Nazi leaders put on trial (1946). [Eur. Hist.: Van Doren, 512]

See : Justice for AIDS," in the September-October issue of The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide--speaks for itself.

"We are currently witnessing endless commemorations of various milestones of HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome , as it now is called," he writes. "To commemorate something without even knowing and acknowledging its history and how the actions and inactions of individuals and institutions and governments caused and shaped that history is a harsh and tragic joke."

His demand? "I would like to see something set up to document the real history of this plague akin to the Nuremberg Trials, which nailed Nazi responsibility for the Holocaust

Main article: The Holocaust

Historians differ as to where the responsibility for the Holocaust lies. Intentionalist historians such as Lucy Dawidowicz argue that Hitler planned the extermination of the Jewish people from as early as 1918, and ," Kramer writes. His proposed defendants include Ed Koch, The New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times, and Nancy Reagan.

Kramer also wants to ditch the term pandemic pandemic /pan·dem·ic/ (pan-dem´ik)
1. a widespread epidemic of a disease.

2. widely epidemic.

pan·dem·ic
adj.
Epidemic over a wide geographic area.

n. and start calling it what it is: a plague.

COPYRIGHT 2006 Liberation Publications, Inc.
No portion of this article can be reproduced without the express written permission from the copyright holder.

Reader Opinion

Article Details
Printer friendly Cite/link Email Feedback
Title Annotation:	HIV/AIDS; Larry Kramer
Publication:	The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Article Type:	Brief article
Geographic Code:	1USA
Date:	Oct 10, 2006
Words:	160
Previous Article:	Justin Fisher.(RELEASED)(Brief article)
Next Article:	Friend or foe.(THE ADVOCATE REPORT)(Brief article)

Related Articles
The Destiny of Me. (Lucille Lortel Theater; New York, New York)
Falwell, Gingrich ... Signorile?(gay activist group Sex Panic!)
JUST SAY NO LIVES!(theatrical play on AIDS during the Ronald Reagan Administration)(Brief Article)
Larry Kramer.(displays pictures of his body, ravaged by HIV and liver disease, to illustrate dangers of disease)(Brief Article)
Larry gets a liver--but who's next? Author-activist Larry Kramer's high-profile liver transplant could help other HIV patients win access to expanded...
Birth of AIDS activism January 1982: Larry Kramer was among the first to make on the growing health crisis. (Rebels & Pioneers).
While the World Sleeps: Writing From the First Twenty Years of the Global AIDS Plague.
Inspiration and aspiration: behind The Normal Heart's still-powerful call to arms is an equally vibrant message about the dangers of letting pop...
Kramer vs. Reagan.(reader forum)(Letter to the Editor)
Mixner goes to Yale--at least on paper.(SOCIETY)(Interview)