by Mark S. King | Nov 28, 2013 | Family and Friends, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News
My brother Richard smiles a lot. He has an easy laugh. But there was a time, years ago, when he held a poisonous drink in his hands and begged his dying lover not to swallow it. A time when Richard held the concoction they had prepared together and wept. Emil... 
by Mark S. King | Nov 21, 2013 | Family and Friends, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
Lesley was my closest friend to become sick in the 1980’s, and he fought bravely until his death from AIDS. Today, there are little rituals I have to honor his memory, and I often write about him, the first of many friends lost to the epidemic. But there’s... 
by Mark S. King | Nov 12, 2013 | Family and Friends, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News
Another year, another magical Caribbean adventure with a happy community of people living with HIV and our loved ones. It could only be the annual HIV Cruise Retreat. We gathered in Miami from around the world, with a record attendance of almost 300 people. There was... 
by Mark S. King | Oct 18, 2013 | Family and Friends, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease
We have learned through the last decades of the LGBT movement that the most effective way to change perceptions is to come out. It forces people to face their prejudices and it is almost always a positive experience, even in the face of potential discrimination. So... 
by Mark S. King | Sep 29, 2013 | Anita Mann and Acting Gigs, Family and Friends, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, Prevention and Policy
This is a clever social media campaign: Healthline, an online health community, has asked people who have been living with HIV to create videos for those who have recently tested positive, known as “You’ve Got This.” Think of it as “It Gets... 
by Mark S. King | Sep 24, 2013 | Family and Friends, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, Meth and Recovery, My Fabulous Disease, Prevention and Policy
Note: This essay has been shared more than 15,000 times from this site since it posted in July of 2012. Some readers responded angrily, and the barebacking aspect of the story brought both cheers and derision (one comment accused director Max Sohl of “crimes...
