by Mark S. King | May 31, 2011 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
This is directed to HIV negative gay men. Listen carefully. This is your time. I’ve lived with HIV more than half my life, and people often praise me far more than I deserve, simply for surviving. They use words like brave and courageous. You know what takes... by Mark S. King | May 20, 2011 | Family and Friends, Gay Life, Meth and Recovery, My Fabulous Disease
After a lifetime of sporadic, recreational drug use, I became a full-blown crystal meth addict ten years ago, and then eventually got clean and sober in January of 2009. But why would I, or anyone as engaged in life as I was, morph into a drug addict? It seemed an... by Mark S. King | Apr 12, 2011 | Family and Friends, Gay Life, My Fabulous Disease
When I became a man, I put away childish things. — 1 Corinthians 13:11 We’re on a dirt road in the cotton fields, sitting in the back of his Plymouth. It had been my idea to stop and look at the sky, and it doesn’t come off like a sneaky move now,... 
by Mark S. King | Mar 29, 2011 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease
(This essay appears in my collection of essays, My Fabulous Disease: Chronicles of a Gay Survivor, available now at online outlets or your local bookstore.) Over and over, footage of Rock Hudson standing next to Doris Day was playing on television, and he looked... by Mark S. King | Mar 23, 2011 | Family and Friends, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. — Andy Warhol Yesterday I had a conference call with Walmart public relations manager Ravi Jariwala, and Crosby Cromwell, a manager for constituent relations. We discussed the...
