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...
by Mark S. King | Sep 8, 2025 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
My speech at NLGJA’s closing reception where I was inducted into their LGBTQ Journalist Hall of Fame, addressing HIV/AIDS activism, trans erasure, LGBTQ unity, and the fascist regime that is “picking the flesh from our democracy every single day.”...
by Mark S. King | Sep 2, 2025 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Trump
Writer, activist, and 40-year HIV survivor Mark S. King will be inducted into the LGBTQ+ Journalist Hall of Fame, it has been announced by the national journalist organization NLGJA. Also being inducted are Charles Blow, celebrated opinion columnist for the New York...
by Mark S. King | Aug 31, 2025 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, Monkeypox, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
In the center of the latest maelstrom at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the last week – on the heels of a deadly mass shooter who killed a police officer and shot out multiple CDC office windows – has been Demetre Daskalakis, MD, a career...
by Mark S. King | Aug 26, 2025 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
Paul Kawata has been such a fixture of the HIV arena – literally since the epidemic began in the early 1980s – that his retirement from NMAC as Executive Director feels as unbelievable as it is inevitable. In a remarkable conversation between Paul and myself...