by Mark S. King | Jan 25, 2022 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
Here’s a fun fact. If people had simply stopped having sex in the 1980s, AIDS would have been stopped in its tracks. But we didn’t and it wasn’t. The culprit was basic human need. Even in the face of our own mortality, we reached out to one another and we touched and... 
by Mark S. King | Jan 4, 2022 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
I grew up on Air Force bases. My father was an officer, Colonel Harol R. King, which was a handy thing to mention if the base police caught you lighting firecrackers in the street or running around the golf course like an idiot. Mostly, though, growing up meant... 
by Mark S. King | Nov 30, 2021 | Film Review, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
When the short video “27000” premiered at London Pride in 1996, featuring a live performance from Jimmy Somerville, the world of HIV was a much different place. The new HIV drug “cocktail” that would finally curb the epidemic was only in its first weeks of... 
by Mark S. King | Nov 16, 2021 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
A financial crisis that will curtail hundreds of millions of dollars to HIV clinics and the community-based organizations that run them is coming on January 1, 2022. It’s only weeks away. Meanwhile, our national advocacy groups are essentially frozen into... 
by Mark S. King | Nov 8, 2021 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
In less than two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has killed more Americans than have died from HIV/AIDS since the AIDS epidemic emerged 40 years ago. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicate that more than 700,00 Americans have been lost to... 
by Mark S. King | Oct 11, 2021 | Book Review, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, Meth and Recovery, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
Activist Peter Staley’s much-anticipated new memoir, Never Silent, opens with almost unbearable nail-biting suspense, sweeping us into the behind-the-scenes machinations of an ACT UP takeover of the New York Stock Exchange at opening bell. It’s...
