by Mark S. King | Aug 5, 2017 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
When it was revealed a few days ago that insurer UnitedHealthCare (UHC) had rejected a patient’s pre-authorization claim for the drug Truvada as PrEP due to “high risk homosexual behavior,” all hell broke loose. Advocates and organizations sprang into action with... 
by Mark S. King | Aug 3, 2017 | Gay Life, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
Discrimination against LGBT people is often once-removed, shielded under double-speak and fraudulent intentions. So, it’s refreshing, really, when a company comes right out and says in black and white that gay men aren’t worthy of the same protections as everyone... 
by Mark S. King | Aug 1, 2017 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, Meth and Recovery, 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.) When my guard is down, it comes to me. It flashes across my mind, an uninvited assault, sometimes when I am... 
by Mark S. King | Jul 12, 2017 | Book Review, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
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by Mark S. King | Jun 30, 2017 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
It is coursing through our veins, sustaining life and fighting disease, and yet we fear it. The sight of a few drops can make an adult faint. A bucket of it in a movie is the very definition of horror. Even as Donald Trump contributes his perverted, sexist new layer...
