by Mark S. King | Oct 16, 2025 | Family and Friends, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, Meth and Recovery, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
During the 2025 United States Conference on HIV/AIDS (USCHA), I watched a speech that may rank as the most beautiful speech I have seen in thirty years of attending this conference. Louie Ortiz-Fonseca, Director of LGBTQ Health and Rights at Advocates for Youth,... 
by Mark S. King | Oct 8, 2025 | Anita Mann and Acting Gigs, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
As part of the remarkable program, “Write it Out!,” which helps shepherd the work of hopeful new playwrights living with HIV, I wrote the first scene of a play a few years ago. It has become The Good Survivor, a short one-act play. I’m going to share it with you,... 
by Mark S. King | Sep 29, 2025 | Gay Life, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
The steel drums playing by the hotel pool blared like a carnival for the tourists wrangling kids and ordering drinks as they adjusted their uncomfortable new bathing suits. Here, though, over the dunes and down the beach a hundred yards away, the drums faded into the... 
by Mark S. King | Sep 11, 2025 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
Just imagine if there was a runway show during the fashion event of the season – New York Fashion Week – that featured not only several models living with HIV, but couture inspired by molecular science, human resilience, and the communities most affected by HIV. Your... 
by Mark S. King | Sep 10, 2025 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
Oh, USCHA, how we love you. You are the Grand Hostess of the HIV/AIDS community, and nowhere else can anyone working for, volunteering in, or living with the reality of HIV find so many beloved allies, frontline workers, and friends. And sometimes, well, we...
