by Mark S. King | Aug 3, 2022 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
If you know anything about me, it’s that I’m not a clinician or researcher. I leave those stories to people who are better qualified. Instead, I view conferences like the international AIDS conference in Montreal (AIDS2022) through the lens of a long-term HIV... 
by Mark S. King | Aug 1, 2022 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
There was something more than the typical passion on display when activists stormed the plenary stage at AIDS2022 today to protest the slow monkeypox response by United States public health officials. The cries of the diverse crowd of protestors were urgent and... 
by Mark S. King | Jul 31, 2022 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News
When Jessica Whitbread was twenty years old, her physician told her after her HIV diagnosis that she had maybe twenty years to live. She responded to the news by getting involved with a number of HIV-related causes, including the International Community of Women... 
by Mark S. King | Jul 27, 2022 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
The poutine covering the fries in Brady’s bowl is suspicious. “It’s cheese curd,” Randy offers, and as the lone Canadian among us we figure he should know, but his explanation isn’t reassuring. The four of us, white gay men all, pick through the soggy mixture with our... 
by Mark S. King | Jul 26, 2022 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
Years from now, there will be gay men who made it through a case of monkeypox who will have the scars up and down the shaft of their penis to prove it. Let me repeat that. Scars. On their cock. For the rest of their lives. I don’t think there’s a derma-peel that will...
