AIDS activist and longtime anti-imperialist organizer Tryfan Morys Eibhlyn Llwyd died March 3 in Louisville, Kentucky at the age of 70. Survivors said the death was due to natural causes, and not related to COVID-19.
When Llwyd, who identified as nonbinary or genderqueer, lived in San Francisco, they were one of the central figures in the emergence of militant AIDS activism in San Francisco, starting with the AIDS Action Pledge in 1986 (which became ACT UP/San Francisco in 1988), noted queer historian Gerard Koskovich.
Llwyd moved back to San Francisco (they had lived here for a time earlier) after testing positive for HIV in 1987 because there was a more supportive community for HIV-positive people, as well as a growing activist movement of which they quickly became a key part, according to their friends Margaret and Melinda Power.
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