by Mark S. King | Apr 8, 2022 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
There’s a new survey produced by the Prevention Access Campaign (PAC) that addresses an important issue: people living with HIV being undervalued for their contributions. And too often, it is those of us living with HIV who let it happen. Speaking at an event....
by Mark S. King | Mar 15, 2022 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
In the early 1980s, I was a gay man living in West Hollywood, California, and the AIDS crisis was barely on the horizon. I remember hearing about people dying, maybe a friend of a friend, and thinking to myself, “oh, I think it must happen to really sleazy people....
by Mark S. King | Mar 4, 2022 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
People living with HIV in Maryland have lost insurance coverage and gone without medication following a December ransomware attack against the state health department that hobbled the Maryland AIDS Drug Assistance Program (MADAP). The health department, meanwhile, has...
by Mark S. King | Feb 1, 2022 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
The Reckoning, a blog site devoted to Black LGBTQ+ voices, has been producing kick-ass content for the last few years. It is also riding high these days, with the recent announcement of its second consecutive GLAAD Media Award nomination, joining previous winners Holy...
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...