by Mark S. King | Apr 8, 2016 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
In a bizarre press release issued by AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the $1 billion dollar agency has offered “no interest loans” to assist Baton Rouge HIV non-profits who are suffering financially as a result of being sued by AHF. Yes, their circular logic is...
by Mark S. King | Apr 6, 2016 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
In a profoundly troubling lawsuit against the City of Baton Rouge and local HIV/AIDS non-profits, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) has forced federal funds to be withheld while AHF continues their litigious temper tantrum over not receiving a Ryan White Care Act...
by Mark S. King | Apr 4, 2016 | Family and Friends, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease
When the health of my close friend Ron began to rapidly decline in 1987, he made the decision to leave Los Angeles to return home to rural New York to be near his family. “Just long enough to feel a little better,” he told me at the time. It was a common trajectory in...
by Mark S. King | Mar 17, 2016 | Family and Friends, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, Meth and Recovery, My Fabulous Disease, News
In the gorgeous and sometimes maddening web series Unsure/Positive, we follow the life of a Boston gay man, Kieran, literally from the moment he gets his HIV positive test result. Kieran’s journey in the six-episode first season (available for only $3.99 on Vimeo)...
by Mark S. King | Mar 8, 2016 | Anita Mann and Acting Gigs, Family and Friends, Gay Life, My Fabulous Disease, News
It was 1975 and I was 14 years old, all gangly limbs and stubborn acne, and I was sitting in the passenger seat of a parked car. Splayed across my lap was the magazine, open to the page my companion had selected. I was staring at the photo with something like...