by Mark S. King | May 18, 2021 | Family and Friends, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
Last night I sat with my husband and a member of our pod (is there a more 2020 expression than that?) as we watched a perfectly sweet and entertaining movie that gets pretty sad at the end, and throughout its last twenty minutes I cried like my mother had just died. I... 
by Mark S. King | Apr 20, 2021 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
(Readers: Please join me when I host a virtual screening of this play on April 28th, including a talk-back with the cast and crew. Details below.) When the monumentally important play Jerker begins screening online as the latest virtual offering of Out Front Theatre,... 
by Mark S. King | Mar 13, 2021 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
Two broadcasts this week took a look at the words we use as people living with HIV – and the words others use to describe us. Those words can be hurtful or weaponized, even among ourselves. As a participant in both conversations, the question boils down to, “how... 
by Mark S. King | Feb 16, 2021 | Film Review, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
The promise of a new, ambitious television series about “what happened” to gay men in the 1980s is tremendously exciting for long-term HIV/AIDS survivors like myself, starved as we are for representation in the media and for another chronicle of our history to be... 
by Mark S. King | Feb 11, 2021 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
The Counter Narrative Project (CNP) continued their boundary-busting content creation by hosting a recent virtual event honoring the legacy of Mario Cooper. Cooper, who died in 2015, has been described as the “Nexus Between AIDS Activists and Black...
