by Mark S. King | May 4, 2010 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease
You must know this, because it matters. Because it has already changed your life and you probably don’t realize it. It was 1983. Just a year prior, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome became the fearful nameplate for the murderer of gay friends and lovers. The... by Mark S. King | Apr 18, 2010 | Family and Friends, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, Prevention and Policy
A few weeks ago I spent the day at the Florida AIDS Walk, and it was striking how different it was from the Walks I attended years ago. Smiling faces, racial and ethnic diversity, baby strollers, and most of all a feeling of happiness and celebration. That’s... by Mark S. King | Apr 15, 2010 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, Prevention and Policy
Once again, the HIV disclosure debate has heated up among prevention advocates, the media, and front-line sexually active men and women just trying to get laid. It all boils down to this: should sharing your status be morally mandatory, or does having protected sex... by Mark S. King | Apr 7, 2010 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, Meth and Recovery, My Fabulous Disease
Among the many online condolences to the family of Chad Noel (“Jim and Bonnie, so sorry to hear of the loss of your son…”) are glimpses of the boy this young man was, while growing up in the ironic hometown of Laramie, Wyoming (where Matthew Shepard... 
by Mark S. King | Apr 4, 2010 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease
“I (have) always hated any suggestion that AIDS was a gift. A Mercedes is a gift.” — Mark S. King, “A Place Like This,” pg. 180 I must admit my belief that bug-chasers are an extremely elusive and exotic form of pervert that aren’t...
