by Mark S. King | Dec 9, 2025 | Family and Friends, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
Broadway star and Emmy-winning actress Sheryl Lee Ralph has been added to a slate of celebrities and community leaders who will appear at a virtual event on Wednesday, December 17, benefitting The Reunion Project, an alliance of HIV/AIDS survivors. “Mark is 65” will... 
by Mark S. King | Dec 4, 2025 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Trump
The south is losing one of its greatest HIV champions, Kathie Hiers, who has announced her retirement as CEO of AIDS Alabama after more than 30 years of dedicated service. In this first-person telling, Kathie shares one of her favorite memories from her years of... 
by Mark S. King | Nov 28, 2025 | My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
The fish rots from the head down, and that putrid head is Trump. The President’s so-called health officials – buffoons all, such as HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who looks more like the melting face of the Nazi in Raiders of the Lost Ark with each passing day,... 
by Mark S. King | Oct 19, 2025 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
It would be naive to suggest that the queer community invented cheeky protests. Long before inflatable animal costumes, or ACT UP protests, or Black civil rights activists sitting at lunch counters, or women’s suffrage demonstrations, there were barrels of tea being... 
by Mark S. King | Oct 8, 2025 | Anita Mann and Acting Gigs, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
As part of the remarkable program, “Write it Out!,” which helps shepherd the work of hopeful new playwrights living with HIV, I wrote the first scene of a play a few years ago. It has become The Good Survivor, a short one-act play. I’m going to share it with you,... 
by Mark S. King | Sep 29, 2025 | Gay Life, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
The steel drums playing by the hotel pool blared like a carnival for the tourists wrangling kids and ordering drinks as they adjusted their uncomfortable new bathing suits. Here, though, over the dunes and down the beach a hundred yards away, the drums faded into the...
