by Mark S. King | May 12, 2016 | Book Review, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News
Daniel Cardone’s essential but relentlessly grim documentary about longtime AIDS survivors, Desert Migration, is fascinated with the bodies of the gay men it profiles. The film begins with lingering shots of each of the subjects as they begin their day. It follows... 
by Mark S. King | Apr 12, 2016 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, Meth and Recovery, My Fabulous Disease, Prevention and Policy
Stigma is insidiously quiet. It is conjured in the mind, born of discomfort and fear, and then it is projected at “the other” among us. It judges them and isolates them. And it happens without a sound. Stigma lets us take comfort in seeing things in others about... 
by Mark S. King | Apr 8, 2016 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
In a bizarre press release issued by AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the $1 billion dollar agency has offered “no interest loans” to assist Baton Rouge HIV non-profits who are suffering financially as a result of being sued by AHF. Yes, their circular logic is... 
by Mark S. King | Apr 6, 2016 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
In a profoundly troubling lawsuit against the City of Baton Rouge and local HIV/AIDS non-profits, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) has forced federal funds to be withheld while AHF continues their litigious temper tantrum over not receiving a Ryan White Care Act... 
by Mark S. King | Apr 4, 2016 | Family and Friends, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease
When the health of my close friend Ron began to rapidly decline in 1987, he made the decision to leave Los Angeles to return home to rural New York to be near his family. “Just long enough to feel a little better,” he told me at the time. It was a common trajectory in...
