The 1st time I met Larry Kramer in person, I was 24. Before this, we had been fighting for about a year, with increasing vitriol directed towards each other. When Truvada was FDA approved as PrEP back in 2012, Larry, among many others, was a vocal critic of those who used it. 1/n

He viewed it, then, as our defeat, I viewed it as (part of) our salvation from a plague that was still raging. It was ACT UP alumni, who convinced me that we needed to sit down and break bread together, rather than screaming at each other online. 2/n

After it, he became a supporter of increasing access to PrEP. In my mind, that dinner represented a turning point in the fight against HIV, where we stopped fighting among ourselves about PrEP, and began to fight to increase access to it. 3/n

Larry's death represents another turning point. We are in the midst of another fucking plague. The question, I think, Larry would ask all of us is what are we doing to fight back? ARE WE ANGRY ENOUGH? ARE WE ORGANIZED ENOUGH? BECAUSE, RIGHT NOW, WE ARE AS GOOD AS DEAD. 4/n

Larry, and a whole generation that preceded us, taught us how to fight back against a plague that at one time also seemed hopeless. They fought heroically and won. But the generations who came after them us can no longer depend on just them to fight for us. It's our turn now. 5/5