 Although the latter article incited outrage among many gay men at the time, after his death, many recognized that his controversial disclosures provoked life-saving awareness among gay men of the risks involved in increasingly widespread but rarely discussed practices of unprotected intercourse, especially among persons who incorrectly presumed (as many still do) that a "negative" HIV test result demonstrated the absence of infection when tested.Gendin died July 19, 2000, from AIDS-induced lymphoma at the age of 34.In the summer of 2000, Gendin's death was eulogized in a widely-reprinted speech by Larry Kramer.