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stephen gendin 19 july 2000 new york , united states ypsilanti , michigan 20 february 1966 aids activism '' i was a teenage hiv prevention activist '' file : stephen gendin.jpg stephen gendin
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stephen gendin

stephen gendin -lrb- february 20 , 1966 -- july 19 , 2000 -rrb- was a prominent aids activists in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s , whose advocacy is credited for having promoted constructive changes in government policy that would improve the lives of hiv-positive people .
gendin was involved with act up , actup/ri , `` sex panic ! ''
, community prescription service , poz magazine , and the radical faeries .
gendin , whom himself was hiv-positive , dedicated the last fifteen years of his life to help care for those also living with hiv/aids .
he was a founder and the chief executive of the community prescription service , a mail-order pharmacy service that also distributes information designed to help people with hiv and aids .
