by Mark S. King | Nov 3, 2025 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News
My friends, I have a special announcement. I will devote my 65th birthday to a celebration of all HIV/AIDS survivors, and the stars will definitely be out. One of them could be you! Mark your calendars for Wednesday, December 17th at 8pm ET. The virtual event will... 
by Mark S. King | Oct 19, 2025 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
It would be naive to suggest that the queer community invented cheeky protests. Long before inflatable animal costumes, or ACT UP protests, or Black civil rights activists sitting at lunch counters, or women’s suffrage demonstrations, there were barrels of tea being... 
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 29, 2025 | Gay Life, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
The steel drums playing by the hotel pool blared like a carnival for the tourists wrangling kids and ordering drinks as they adjusted their uncomfortable new bathing suits. Here, though, over the dunes and down the beach a hundred yards away, the drums faded into the... 
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...
