by Mark S. King | Oct 16, 2025 | Family and Friends, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, Meth and Recovery, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
During the 2025 United States Conference on HIV/AIDS (USCHA), I watched a speech that may rank as the most beautiful speech I have seen in thirty years of attending this conference. Louie Ortiz-Fonseca, Director of LGBTQ Health and Rights at Advocates for Youth,... 
by Mark S. King | Oct 8, 2025 | Anita Mann and Acting Gigs, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
As part of the remarkable program, “Write it Out!,” which helps shepherd the work of hopeful new playwrights living with HIV, I wrote the first scene of a play a few years ago. It has become The Good Survivor, a short one-act play. I’m going to share it with you,... 
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 | Sep 8, 2025 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
My speech at NLGJA’s closing reception where I was inducted into their LGBTQ Journalist Hall of Fame, addressing HIV/AIDS activism, trans erasure, LGBTQ unity, and the fascist regime that is “picking the flesh from our democracy every single day.”... 
by Mark S. King | Sep 2, 2025 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Trump
Writer, activist, and 40-year HIV survivor Mark S. King will be inducted into the LGBTQ+ Journalist Hall of Fame, it has been announced by the national journalist organization NLGJA. Also being inducted are Charles Blow, celebrated opinion columnist for the New York...
