by Mark S. King | Jun 2, 2017 | Book Review, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News
Larry Kramer, Kelsey Louie of GMHC, Mark S. King, and Larry’s husband, David Webster. (Photo: Nathan Perkel) The new POZ Magazine feature article, “Finding Larry Kramer,” tells the behind-the-scenes story of how the iconic activist found his way back to GMHC...
by Mark S. King | May 15, 2017 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News
(May 17, 2017 will mark five years since the death of music icon Donna Summer. This is why her legacy still matters.) The music my friends liked when I was a teenager intimidated me. It was the head-banging rock of the early seventies, and it felt alien and...
by Mark S. King | May 2, 2017 | Family and Friends, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News
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by Mark S. King | Apr 21, 2017 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, Prevention and Policy
(Sean McKenna, as part of a portrait series by photographer David Meanix.) Last December I attended the most moving, transcendent World AIDS Day program I have witnessed in years. That’s not saying much, of course. These evenings are usually well-meaning but maudlin,...
by Mark S. King | Apr 5, 2017 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News
Amazing, really, that this needs to be said: stop posting images and video of the last moments of the lives of innocent people. This is snuff porn, and we’re contributing to it under the insane guise of “enlightenment” and “getting people to give a shit.” Such is life...