Stephen Gendin

Stephen Gendin (February 20, 1966 – July 19, 2000) was a prominent AIDS activist, involved with ACT UP, ActUp/RI, "Sex Panic!", Community Prescription Service, and POZ Magazine.Gendin was raised in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and attended Brown University, where he learned that he was HIV+ as a first-year student in 1985. He aggressively experimented with new medications for HIV and maintained a healthy and active lifestyle for many years, but did not survive treatment for AIDS-related lymphoma [cite news
last = Lugliani
first = Greg
title = In Memoriam: Stephen Gendin: Activist and Writer Dies of AIDS at Age 34
publisher = The Body: The Complete HIV/AIDS Resource
date = 2000-09-01
url = http://www.thebody.com/bp/sept00/lastword.html
accessdate = 2007-01-02] in the summer of 2000. Stephen's death was eulogized in a widely-reprinted speech by Larry Kramer [cite news
last = Kramer
first = Larry
title = Be Very Afraid
publisher = POZ Magazine
date = 2000-10-01
url = http://www.poz.com/articles/206_1384.shtml
accessdate = 2007-01-02] .

Bibliography

*"I Was a Teenage HIV Prevention Activist" [cite book
last = Dangerous Bedfellows
title = Policing Public Sex
publisher = South End Press
date = 1996
location = Boston
pages = 105-114
id = ISBN 089608549X ]
*"Jesse Helms Must Die" [cite news
last = Gendin
first = Stephen
title = Jesse Helms Must Die
publisher = POZ Magazine
date = 1996-11-01]
*"Riding Bareback" [cite news
last = Gendin
first = Stephen
title = Riding Bareback
publisher = POZ Magazine
date = 1997-05-01]
*"Membership has its Privileges" [cite news
last = Gendin
first = Stephen
title = Membership has its Privileges
publisher = POZ Magazine
date = 1997-06-01]
*"At the End of my Rope" [cite news
last = Gendin
first = Stephen
title = At the End of my Rope
publisher = POZ Magazine
date = 1998-02-01]
*"AIDS is Over" [cite news
last = Gendin
first = Stephen
title = AIDS is Over
publisher = POZ Magazine
date = 1998-07-01
url = http://www.poz.com/articles/229_7190.shtml
accessdate = 2007-01-02]
*"You Can't Take it with You" [cite news
last = Gendin
first = Stephen
title = You Can't Take it with You
publisher = POZ Magazine
date = 1998-08-01
url = http://www.poz.com/articles/230_7302.shtml
accessdate = 2007-01-02]
*"Confessions of a Jerk" [cite news
last = Gendin
first = Stephen
title = Confessions of a Jerk
publisher = POZ Magazine
date = 1998-09-01
url = http://www.poz.com/articles/231_7393.shtml
accessdate = 2007-01-02]
*"Stop the World, I Want to Get Off" [cite news
last = Gendin
first = Stephen
title = Stop the World, I Want to Get Off
publisher = POZ Magazine
date = 1998-11-01
url = http://www.poz.com/articles/233_7681.shtml
accessdate = 2007-01-02]
*"How Am I?" [cite news
last = Gendin
first = Stephen
title = How Am I?
publisher = POZ Magazine
date = 1998-12-01
url = http://www.poz.com/articles/234_7257.shtml
accessdate = 2007-01-02]
*"Bad News Bear" [cite news
last = Gendin
first = Stephen
title = Bad News Bear
publisher = POZ Magazine
date = 1999-01-01
url = http://www.poz.com/articles/210_7089.shtml
accessdate = 2007-01-02]
*"They Shoot Barebackers, Don't They?" [cite news
last = Gendin
first = Stephen
title = They Shoot Barebackers, Don't They?
publisher = POZ Magazine
date = 1999-02-01
url = http://www.poz.com/articles/211_1459.shtml
accessdate = 2007-01-02]
*"The Seven Year Itch" [cite news
last = Gendin
first = Stephen
title = The Seven Year Itch
publisher = POZ Magazine
date = 1999-04-01
url = http://www.poz.com/articles/213_9566.shtml
accessdate = 2007-01-02]
*"Both Sides Now" [cite news
last = Gendin
first = Stephen
title = Both Sides Now
publisher = POZ Magazine
date = 1999-11-01]
*"On the Runs" [cite news
last = Gendin
first = Stephen
title = On the Runs
publisher = POZ Magazine
date = 2000-04-01
url = http://www.poz.com/articles/200_10450.shtml
accessdate = 2007-01-02]
*"The Lost Day" [cite news
last = Gendin
first = Stephen
title = The Lost Day
pages =
language =
publisher = POZ Magazine
date = 2000-07-01
url = http://www.poz.com/articles/203_10297.shtml
accessdate = 2007-01-02]
*"The Hole Truth" [cite news
last = Gendin
first = Stephen
title = The Hole Truth
pages =
language =
publisher = POZ Magazine
date = 2000-08-01
url = http://www.poz.com/articles/204_10203.shtml
accessdate = 2007-01-02]
*"Last Word" - Oct 2000 [cite news
last = Gendin
first = Stephen
title = Last Word
publisher = POZ Magazine
date = 2000-10-01
url = http://www.poz.com/articles/206_7782.shtml
accessdate = 2007-01-02]

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