by Mark S. King | Feb 27, 2013 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
The turning point could be traced to August of 1998. It was the month that, for the first time in well over a decade, the Bay Area Reporter did not have a single AIDS obituary submitted for publication. The promise of protease inhibitor medications had been realized,... 
by Mark S. King | Jan 9, 2013 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease
My fear of all things anal began when I was an early teen. My older brother David took great delight in bursting into our bathroom to startle me, especially if I was on the john. And, since I was a pubescent redhead, his sudden visits included a lot of laughing and... 
by Mark S. King | Jan 2, 2013 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, Meth and Recovery, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
“My most courageous self, the best man that I’ll ever be, lived more than two decades ago during the first years of a horrific plague… I miss the man I was forced to become.” — “Once, When We Were Heroes,” 2007 AIDS did not kill Spencer Cox in the first,... 
by Mark S. King | Dec 13, 2012 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, Meth and Recovery, My Fabulous Disease, News
Our first meeting on-camera was in 2006. The memory of it pains me still, despite my enthusiasm for appearing on national television for any reason whatsoever. “And how long have you been off drugs?” he asked. The look in his eyes carried a journalist’s skepticism.... 
by Mark S. King | Oct 30, 2012 | Anita Mann and Acting Gigs, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease
(NOTE: When I created this post/video in 2012, I had no idea I would be honored as one of the Grand Marshals of the 2013 Atlanta Gay Pride Celebration (Oct 12-13). It makes the concept of Poz Pride even more interesting to me. If you would like to join my contingent...
