by Mark S. King | Jun 7, 2023 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
You’re never too old to learn how terribly ignorant you are. When I first heard about plans for a World AIDS Museum in Fort Lauderdale, FL, some years ago, I might have rolled my eyes a little bit. Who’s going to that? I wondered. Those of us who were there aren’t... 
by Mark S. King | Jan 31, 2023 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
The issue of HIV criminalization used to intimidate me, because I didn’t understand State laws, much less how to change them. Thank God I got a scholarship to the first HIV Is Not A Crime Training Academy (HINAC) in 2014, because it opened my eyes and introduced me to... 
by Mark S. King | Oct 12, 2022 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, Meth and Recovery, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
After scrapping the in-person USCHA conference for two years due to COVID, and efforts to locate the event in San Juan, Puerto Rico being threatened by two hurricanes – including Ian only weeks ago – it would seem the industrious folks at NMAC (which produces USCHA)... 
by Mark S. King | Oct 5, 2022 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
“There is no greater form of stigma than when it is written into our laws.” SERO Project founder Sean Strub made that notable remark years ago, in regard to what he considers one of the great moral issues of our time: the prosecution of people living with HIV for no... 
by Mark S. King | Aug 13, 2022 | Gay Life, Monkeypox, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy
The big picture view of monkeypox in this country has been fraught with heated debate, acrimony, homophobia, and anxious uncertainty about vaccine strategy and distribution. And that’s just on social media. What a breath of fresh air, then, to witness a...
