Intergenerational AIDS Activists Endorse PrEP, Call Out Gilead

published on December 8, 2015 by Les Fabian Brathwaite, in OUT

"While PrEP isn’t for everyone, any individual who thinks they are at risk of getting HIV should have easy access to it, without judgement."

On January 4, 1982, some 80 gay men met up in Larry Kramer's Manhattan apartment to form what would become the GMHC. Over 30 years later, and in the same apartment (god bless rent control) Kramer hosted another meeting, representing not only how much work had been done to fight the epidemic, but also how much work was left to do.

Over a dinner of boeuf bourguignon, Kramer, Jim Eigo, Matt Ebert, James Krellenstein and Peter Staley poured the wine and spilled the T on PrEP and took Gilead to task for its "near monopolies in drugs that treat and prevent HIV."

Kramer had previously taken a strong stance—the only stance he knows—against Truvada, when he said anyone taking it must have "rocks in their heads."

“There’s something to me cowardly about taking Truvada instead of using a condom," Kramer told The New York Times. "You’re taking a drug that is poison to you, and it has lessened your energy to fight, to get involved, to do anything.”

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