What Is The Role Of Stereotypes In The Normal Heart

Throughout the play, “The Normal Heart” Kramer address more than just the AIDS epidemic; he teaches the audience to take pride and rejoice with one another being gay rather than hiding it to “protect” their social appearance. Within his efforts, Kramer uses relatable characters and communities to further his ideas. More importantly, Kramer never strays from writing the actual truth, including these ideas: the New York Times suppressing the gay community, Mayor Koch rejecting furthering the studies on AIDS, his brother rejecting his sexuality, and President Reagan making little effort to help the gay community. The set of characters in “The Normal Heart” play such an influential role in providing the audience with a message of standing up for your beliefs before it becomes too late. This story is based upon a group of gay men in New York City who created an organization to help raise awareness for AIDS. The main character in this film is Ned, ‘a well-known man in the gay world and who is not afraid to say what he thinks,’ who takes on the role of leading the gay community towards curing the dangerous and contagious disease that later became
Ned emerges as an outspoken gay man with great aspirations for saving the gay community that eventually leads him to be considered the “only screamer among them.” Because of Ned’s threatening and blunt personality, the organization decided to elect Bruce as president because according to a fellow partner in the organization, “he's gorgeous–and all the kids on Christopher Street and Fire Island will feel a bit more comfortable following him.” Bruce is an amicable man who remains secretive about being gay, in which contradicting the premise of his organization. Bruce, along with the other gay men involved in this organization, are also not open about their sexuality.