How Anthony Fauci and Larry Kramer became friends – The Forward
One way to celebrate the 80th birthday on Dec. 24 of Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, would be to re-examine his complex friendship with the American Jewish author and AIDS activist Larry Kramer. When Kramer died in May of this year at age 84, Fauci recounted in interviews that a quasi-bromance had developed between him and the anti-government firebrand, since they first met in the 1980s as adversaries over official AIDS policy. As Fauci explained on “PBS NewsHour” May 28, “It turned out I loved the guy, and I think he loved me ba...