by Mark S. King | Jul 19, 2017 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, 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.) The annual Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco is noted for its unbridled embrace of every kinky star in our...
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...
by Mark S. King | Jun 28, 2017 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, Prevention and Policy
In thirty years of HIV work alongside black advocates, I have rarely written on the topic of race. It makes me uncomfortable, or perhaps I feel unequipped, unqualified. But it’s that very hesitancy, according to black gay academic Charles Stephens, that only...
by Mark S. King | Jun 12, 2017 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
No Justice No Pride protestors blocking the Capital Pride Parade. (Photo: Dylan Comstock) Hell hath no fury like a privileged white gay man who has waited too long for the next pride parade contingent to sashay by. When #NoJusticeNoPride blocked the DC Pride parade...