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Stephen Gendin

POZ writer and AIDS activist who died on July 19, 2000

Whatever happened to AIDS activism? Stephen Gendin dares his comrades to bite the hand that feeds ‘em.

Stephen Gendin goes in for a Pap smear and comes out with a date for surgery.

Stephen Gendin pulls a Proust and goes searching for lost time. He hopes he doesn’t find dementia lurking in a budding grove.

Meds made a mess of his intestines. Now, with this Diarrhea Diary, former slave to the porcelain Stephen Gendin shares his dirty laundry.

The so-called party of the millennium in New York’s Fire Island Pines started under a cloud of controversy.

In their own words, two lovers try to make sense of how one came to infect the other with an HIV supervirus.

When your body-as-temple becomes a little shop of horrors

Tony Valenzuela is AIDS activism’s most misunderstood man.

If the virus doesn’t get you, the drugs you take will.

Don’t ask.

When neggies pop The Question

And the man that got away 

So he takes it to the limit

Gay men have abandoned crisis mode. Their prevention hasn’t

When HIV progresses from stressful to lethal

Sex is the most powerful force in the world, a force to be worshiped and learned from, not harnessed, hidden or ignored.