by Mark S. King | Jan 19, 2014 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News
If you’re considering how to best disclose your HIV positive status to everyone you know, here’s one suggestion: learn to sew. Television’s long-running reality hit Project Runway could be holding a spot just for you. Over the course of a dozen...
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 | Nov 21, 2013 | Family and Friends, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
Lesley was my closest friend to become sick in the 1980’s, and he fought bravely until his death from AIDS. Today, there are little rituals I have to honor his memory, and I often write about him, the first of many friends lost to the epidemic. But there’s...
by Mark S. King | Oct 22, 2013 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News
Just because it’s over doesn’t mean it didn’t happen… Doesn’t mean it wasn’t beautiful, even with the pain. — “Beautiful Sadness,” sung by chanteuse and gay favorite Jane Oliver In the first minutes of Dallas...