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 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 | Aug 31, 2025 | Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, Monkeypox, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
In the center of the latest maelstrom at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the last week – on the heels of a deadly mass shooter who killed a police officer and shot out multiple CDC office windows – has been Demetre Daskalakis, MD, a career...
by Mark S. King | Aug 26, 2025 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
Paul Kawata has been such a fixture of the HIV arena – literally since the epidemic began in the early 1980s – that his retirement from NMAC as Executive Director feels as unbelievable as it is inevitable. In a remarkable conversation between Paul and myself...
by Mark S. King | Jun 27, 2025 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, News, Prevention and Policy, Trump
As press conferences go, the one held this week for the #SaveHIVFunding effort by the national advocacy group PrEP4All was a doozy. But not for the usual reasons. There were no shocking announcements from the slate of public health advocates and workers. There were no...