by Mark S. King | Sep 20, 2021 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News
One of the sunnier, and always inspiring, HIV anti-stigma campaigns in our communmity will hit social media this Wednesday, September 22, when A Day with HIV takes place, and you’re invited. People living with HIV (and our wonderful allies) are invited to snap a photo...
by Mark S. King | Sep 16, 2021 | Film Review, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News
When Rev. Steve Pieters attended the red carpet premiere of the upcoming film, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, he never imagined he was about to meet his biggest fan — the film’s star, Jessica Chastain. In 1985, Pieters appeared on televangalist Tammy Faye Bakker’s...
by Mark S. King | Sep 2, 2021 | Book Review, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
You probably don’t know his name, but you might have heard the name of his most famous “victim.” In 1990, dentist David J. Acer was accused by his patient, Kimberly Bergalis, of infecting her with HIV. It was the start of an onslaught of accusations from Acer’s...
by Mark S. King | Aug 19, 2021 | Film Review, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News
“Where will we dance?” The elderly gay man asks the young queer bartender the question with all sincereity, confused about where gay men will be able to congregate, much less dance, once the small town’s last remaining gay dance club is closed. The criminally young...
by Mark S. King | Aug 10, 2021 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
Ultimately, the organizers of the United States Conference on HIV/AIDS (USCHA) ran out of viable options for hosting the largest annual HIV conference in the country as an in-person event. For weeks, as the delta variant of COVID surged and the prospects for...