by Mark S. King | Nov 13, 2018 | Book Review, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, Prevention and Policy
(In my day, all you needed was a way with words. Now, with video conferencing in the age of COVID, the “suspension of disbelief” in an audio phone session has been ruined. Let me take you back to a simpler time…) The number might be a little low.... 
by Mark S. King | Nov 9, 2018 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
The team behind the 20th Anniversary Community Summit, being held in Atlanta this weekend and sponsored by ViiV Healthcare, knew how to open the event today on exactly the right foot. The first words attendees heard were the poetry of Mary Bowman, delivered by the... 
by Mark S. King | Oct 24, 2018 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, Prevention and Policy
The Kinsey Sicks have been at this a long time. The acapella singing group of gay men in drag are celebrating 25 years of performing shows that are equal parts camp comedy and very of-the-moment political humor. Benjamin Schatz is an original member of the group,... 
by Mark S. King | Oct 20, 2018 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
The AIDS activists who regularly stormed the homes, offices and even churches of the powerful beginning in the late 1980’s weren’t the only ones who were scared for their lives. Frank Young served as FDA Commissioner during the massive “Seize Control of the FDA”... 
by Mark S. King | Oct 16, 2018 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, Prevention and Policy
(This essay appears in my collection of essays, My Fabulous Disease: Chronicles of a Gay Survivor, available now at online outlets or your local bookstore.) Lesley was my closest friend to become sick in the 1980’s, and he fought bravely until his death from... 
by Mark S. King | Oct 10, 2018 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
Very little happens by accident. The most iconic moments in HIV/AIDS activism – the appearance of the early SILENCE=DEATH meme, the footage of AIDS activist Peter Staley being peeled from a building during a protest, the photos of Sen. Jesse Helms’ home wrapped in an...
