by Mark S. King | Mar 24, 2014 | Anita Mann and Acting Gigs, Gay Life, My Fabulous Disease, News
Last night I kissed a straight guy full on the lips. Then he tenderly put his arms around me and kissed me back. Tonight I’m going to do it again. It sounds like conquest. Or breaking a taboo. At the very least it fulfills the fantasies of many a gay man. And it... 
by Mark S. King | Dec 20, 2013 | Anita Mann and Acting Gigs, Family and Friends, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, Meth and Recovery, My Fabulous Disease
(I can’t resist posting this each Holiday Season. The video below is my very favorite, of the more than 60 I have produced over the years. Enjoy!) My mother’s home here in Shreveport, Louisiana, was fraught with excitement last week. Christmas decorations... 
by Mark S. King | Oct 22, 2013 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News
Just because it’s over doesn’t mean it didn’t happen… Doesn’t mean it wasn’t beautiful, even with the pain. — “Beautiful Sadness,” sung by chanteuse and gay favorite Jane Oliver In the first minutes of Dallas... 
by Mark S. King | Aug 7, 2013 | Anita Mann and Acting Gigs, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, Meth and Recovery, My Fabulous Disease
“We’re born naked… and the rest is drag.” — RuPaul When I was nine years old, I took my parents’ album of the Broadway musical “Damn Yankees” and memorized every syllable of Gwen Verdon’s show stopper, “Who’s Got the Pain When They Do the Mambo?” Once I was... 
by Mark S. King | Apr 3, 2013 | Family and Friends, My Fabulous Disease
This memory still brings back fear and melancholy, like a ghost story that stubbornly haunts me after all these years… Over and over, footage of Rock Hudson standing next to Doris Day was playing on television, and he looked ghastly. His skin was wrinkled and...
