by Mark S. King | Sep 11, 2025 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
Just imagine if there was a runway show during the fashion event of the season – New York Fashion Week – that featured not only several models living with HIV, but couture inspired by molecular science, human resilience, and the communities most affected by HIV. Your... 
by Mark S. King | Sep 10, 2025 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
Oh, USCHA, how we love you. You are the Grand Hostess of the HIV/AIDS community, and nowhere else can anyone working for, volunteering in, or living with the reality of HIV find so many beloved allies, frontline workers, and friends. And sometimes, well, we... 
by Mark S. King | Aug 31, 2025 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, Monkeypox, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
In the center of the latest maelstrom at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the last week – on the heels of a deadly mass shooter who killed a police officer and shot out multiple CDC office windows – has been Demetre Daskalakis, MD, a career... 
by Mark S. King | May 19, 2025 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
Craig Washington could be forgiven if he has a certain strut in his step these days. His lifetime of community service, building one program after another that lifts up, supports and celebrates SGL (Same Gender Loving) Black men, is written across the history of... 
by Mark S. King | Apr 5, 2025 | Family and Friends, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Trump
More than ten years ago, when pop icon Donna Summer died, I wrote a tribute to the impact her music had made on me as a young gay man growing up in Louisiana in 1977. A few weeks ago, producer Becky Ripley at BBC Radio 4 in Bristol, UK somehow ran across that essay...
