The Normal Heart is a largely autobiographical play by Larry Kramer. It focuses on the rise of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City between 1981 and 1984 as seen through the eyes of writer/activist Ned Weeks the gay Jewish-American founder of a prominent HIV advocacy group. Ned prefers loud public confrontations to the calmer more private strategies favored by his associates friends and closeted lover Felix Turner none of whom are prepared to throw themselves into the media spotlight.
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