Yes, and actually, "living is an act of resistance" was a prominent theme during the AIDS era. That absolutely applied to transgender people, but at least as much to cisgender gay men who were numerically more at risk.

Choosing life in all its messy and sometimes sexual complexity was often a controversial act.

By choosing life, I mean choosing to fully participate and not to be silent, not to withdraw into a sick bed or a minority community of dying people begging for mercy from the majority.

By choosing to live as an act of resistance, I'm talking about people like the artist Keith Haring. Like Larry Kramer. Like so many others I knew who were not famous.

It's people like you who resist in day-to-day life who make life better for all of us.