by Mark S. King | Jul 7, 2023 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News
I’ve known my best friend Charles for more than 40 years. He knew me when I was HIV negative, for goodness sake. That’s how long we’ve been besties. When Charles was interviewed recently for a story about my advocacy, he said something that surprised me. “Mark almost...
by Mark S. King | Jun 7, 2023 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
You’re never too old to learn how terribly ignorant you are. When I first heard about plans for a World AIDS Museum in Fort Lauderdale, FL, some years ago, I might have rolled my eyes a little bit. Who’s going to that? I wondered. Those of us who were there aren’t...
by Mark S. King | May 16, 2023 | Film Review, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
There are so many governmental and community programs that refer to “ending the HIV epidemic” that you might be excused for rolling your eyes a little when you hear about one. What do they even mean? Ending the HIV epidemic how, you might wonder. And for whom? Those...
by Mark S. King | May 5, 2023 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
You must know this, because it matters. Because it has already changed your life, no matter who you are, and you may not even realize it. It was 1983. Just a year prior, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) became the fearful nameplate for the murderer of gay...
by Mark S. King | Apr 5, 2023 | A LIST OF ALL "MFD" VIDEOS, Book Review, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News
There must have been something in the water at those New York City ACT UP meetings back in the day. There had to be. The band of ferocious, cheeky AIDS activists (immortalized in the Oscar-nominated documentary, How to Survive a Plague) has produced scientists,...