Student activist, political organizer, and drafter of the plan for the Human Rights Campaign Fund. Back in 1984, Larry Bye helped found the STOP AIDS Project in San Francisco. It quickly became a model program, reaching thousands of gay men.

"It was never, ever designed simply to promote condoms," says Bye. With a facilitator, small groups engaged in "a lot of introspection and healthy self-criticism." Frequently, "people would comment on attributes of the community that made the epidemic worse, including sex clubs and number of partners." At the end, participants made a personal commitment to help end the epidemic: "For some it was about condoms, for some it was settling down behind the white picket fence."