by Mark S. King | Dec 30, 2013 | Family and Friends, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, Meth and Recovery, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
The year 2013 was a game changer for My Fabulous Disease, and I want to thank you for your clicks, comments, and shares. I have more confidence as an advocate and a writer, thanks to you, and traffic for this blog more than doubled over last year! I’m bad at... 
by Mark S. King | Nov 28, 2013 | Family and Friends, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News
My brother Richard smiles a lot. He has an easy laugh. But there was a time, years ago, when he held a poisonous drink in his hands and begged his dying lover not to swallow it. A time when Richard held the concoction they had prepared together and wept. Emil... 
by Mark S. King | Sep 3, 2013 | Family and Friends, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, Meth and Recovery, My Fabulous Disease, News
Why Andy Cohen isn’t badgering me with phone calls to bring this series to Bravo, I’ll never know. Nearly four years ago, I invited four friends living with HIV over to my place for a night of devouring brownies and sharing secrets, while my friend Charles captured it... by Mark S. King | Jul 26, 2013 | Family and Friends, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease
(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.) “Did I ever tell you about the night that Emil died?” my brother Richard asked me. It was 1992, and... 
by Mark S. King | Jan 24, 2013 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News
For several years now, I’ve made the occasional pilgrimage to Vero Beach, Florida, to be treated by Dr. Gerald Pierone for facial wasting, or lipoatrophy. And for all of these years, we have battled The Look: the sunken cheeks and sagging face of someone who has...
