Published for the first time in Spanish more than three decades after its premiere, The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me is a semi-autobiographical monologue in which the actor, director, and playwright David Drake tells us about his journey of self-discovery as a gay man while describing the devastating effects of the AIDS crisis that ravaged the LGTBIQ+ community in the 1980s.
The author drew on the anger and frustration that dominated the ACT UP movement and the impact of seeing Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart on stage to write his own activist play, which he performed at its premiere at the Perry Street Theatre in New York in June 1992, a few days before his birthday and the anniversary of the Stonewall riots.
The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me remained on stage for a whole year, making it one of the longest-running monologues in the Big Apple. It has been the subject of around fifty productions worldwide and has been translated into French, Greek, Portuguese, among others. In 2000, it was adapted into a film by Tim Kirkman and starred the author himself.
