About Mark S. King

Articles

• My Fabulous Disease: Mark King's Video Blog on TheBody.com (Regularly Updated)
  Always insightful, informative and tremendously entertaining, Mark's video blog documents his journey as a gay man living with HIV entering the middle years of his life.
• HIV Frontlines: Mark King Looks Back at the AIDS Epidemic's Darkest Hour in the U.S. (May 14, 2008)
  In this powerful interview, King recounts the tremendous courage of people who fought through the U.S. epidemic during its terrifying early years.
• Meth Burial (May 2008)
• A Place Like This -- Chapter 9 (2007)
  To read PDF, click here.
• Once, When We Were Heroes (June 2006)
• Outliving My Father (May 22, 2001)
  Mark recounts how years of caring for friends dying of AIDS prepared him for taking care of his dying father.
  From The Advocate
• AIDS Always Benefits from What We Don't Talk About (April 2001)
  
• When AIDS Hits the Workplace (November 1999)
  
• Lazarus Gets A Third Wind (May 1999)
  From career choices to his sex life to his stunned friends, renewed life has brought one headache after another.
  From Body Positive
  
• Downtown (November 1998)
  
• Richard (October 1998)
  
• Emil (September 1998)
  
• Geneva (July 1998)
  
• The Marketing of AIDS (May 1998)
  
• Scared to Death (March 1998)
  
• Big City AIDS Activist Goes to Beaumont, Texas (1997)
  
• Five Sad Truths About AIDS (1997)
  
• When Opposites Attract (1997)
  
• HIV and Other Fabulous Prizes (1997)

MyFabulousDisease.com

• HIV and Gay Media: The Vanishing Virus (February 27, 2013)
• The Increasingly Strange Case of Uncle Poodle (February 18, 2013)
• Your Mother Liked It Bareback (January 28, 2013)
• Probing My Anal Phobia (January 9, 2013)
• The Private War That Killed Spencer Cox (January 2, 2013)
• The Truth Is Bad Enough: What Became of the Happy Hustler? (October 22, 2012)
• Is "Dawson's 20-Load Weekend" the Most Important Gay Porn Film Ever Made? (July 9, 2012)
• Revisiting "The Real Poz Guys of Atlanta" (October 4, 2011)
• For Dad: "I Am the Man My Father Built" (June 16, 2011)
• Hiding From the "AIDS at 30" Media Storm (June 14, 2011)
• Vacations and Retreats for People With HIV/AIDS (April 28, 2011)
• Walmart Gets Better (March 23, 2011)
• Farewell, Elizabeth (March 23, 2011)
• Walmart, the G Word and Internet Activism (March 22, 2011)
• The Hilarious Idiocy of Anonymous Gay Sex (February 7, 2011)
• Hurting Mom (or) My First Gay Christmas (December 7, 2010)
• (Not Exactly) Like a Prayer (November 18, 2010)
• Examining Death, Including the One I Caused (November 8, 2010)
• The 2010 HRC Dinner (in Under Four Minutes!) (October 10, 2010)
• Fighting Back Hard Against Bullying (October 5, 2010)
• Dueling Videos: Oprah in 1987 and AIDS Activism in 2010 (September 16, 2010)
• HIV Stigma (and My Lover Jack) at USCA (September 14, 2010)
• Tracking the Elusive HIV "Bug Chasers" (September 10, 2010)
• AIDS 2010 for Dummies: An Entertaining Review (August 3, 2010)
• The Man That AIDS Forgot: Safe Sex Architect Richard Berkowitz (July 3, 2010)
• An AIDS Golden Oldie, Spinning Again (June 27, 2010)
• Fantastic Voyage: How the HIV Cruise Retreat Transforms Lives (June 22, 2010)
• My Pretend Life Without HIV (May 11, 2010)
• How the Denver Principles Changed AIDS (and Health Care) Forever (May 4, 2010)
• Dixie Carter's Death and Her HIV/AIDS Prevention Legacy (April 11, 2010)
• Why Do Gay Men Love Monster Movies? (April 9, 2010)
• Did Gay Bareback Porn Kill Chad Noel? (April 7, 2010)
• "The Clap" Is Becoming the Applause! (March 31, 2010)