by Mark S. King | Sep 10, 2025 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
Oh, USCHA, how we love you. You are the Grand Hostess of the HIV/AIDS community, and nowhere else can anyone working for, volunteering in, or living with the reality of HIV find so many beloved allies, frontline workers, and friends. And sometimes, well, we... 
by Mark S. King | Sep 8, 2025 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
My speech at NLGJA’s closing reception where I was inducted into their LGBTQ Journalist Hall of Fame, addressing HIV/AIDS activism, trans erasure, LGBTQ unity, and the fascist regime that is “picking the flesh from our democracy every single day.”... 
by Mark S. King | Aug 26, 2025 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
Paul Kawata has been such a fixture of the HIV arena – literally since the epidemic began in the early 1980s – that his retirement from NMAC as Executive Director feels as unbelievable as it is inevitable. In a remarkable conversation between Paul and myself... 
by Mark S. King | Jul 9, 2025 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, Meth and Recovery, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
Todd Heywood, known by his friends as simply “Heywood,” has been an outspoken HIV survivor, renowned investigative journalist, and queer advocate for most of his life. So it should come as no surprise that when Heywood got a cancer diagnosis last year, he has used it... 
by Mark S. King | Apr 5, 2025 | Family and Friends, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Trump
More than ten years ago, when pop icon Donna Summer died, I wrote a tribute to the impact her music had made on me as a young gay man growing up in Louisiana in 1977. A few weeks ago, producer Becky Ripley at BBC Radio 4 in Bristol, UK somehow ran across that essay...
