Mark King

1 month ago | marksking.com | Mark King

Craig Washington could be forgiven if he has a certain strut in his step these days. His lifetime of community service, building one program after another that lifts up, supports and celebrates SGL (Same Gender Loving) Black men, is written across the history of Atlanta and beyond.

1 month ago | outsfl.com | Mark King

40 Years Ago I Tested HIV Positive | OpinionForty years ago, on March 15th, 1985, I received my HIV positive test result. Reaching this milestone is beyond anything I could have imagined as a frightened 24-year-old, and I have written about the experience , and about the many eventful years since, many times. That is not the story I want to tell you, not again. What I want you to know, what I must absolutely convince you of, is that the time has come to lay our bodies on the line again.

Mar 15, 2025 | poz.com | Mark King

“If this article doesn’t scare the shit out of you, we’re in real trouble… Our continued existence depends on just how angry you can get.” – Larry Kramer, “1,112 and Counting,” The New York Native, 1983 Forty years ago, on March 15th, 1985, I received my HIV positive test result. Reaching this milestone is beyond anything I could have imagined as a frightened 24-year-old, and I havewritten about the experience, and about the many eventful years since, many times.

Mar 14, 2025 | marksking.com | Mark King

“If this article doesn’t scare the shit out of you, we’re in real trouble… Our continued existence depends on just how angry you can get.”– Larry Kramer, “1,112 and Counting,” The New York Native, 1983Forty years ago, on March 15th, 1985, I received my HIV positive test result. Reaching this milestone is beyond anything I could have imagined as a frightened 24-year-old, and I have written about the experience, and about the many eventful years since, many times.

Feb 20, 2025 | poz.com | Mark King

The phrase sat there on my Facebook feed, staring back at me like an accusation. “If you aren’t resisting, you are assisting,” the post read. I felt flush with self-conscious guilt. It wasn’t a familiar feeling, not after nearly forty years of speaking up and staking my ground as a long-term HIV survivor. And yet somehow, in this new surreal era of governmental upheaval, the slate of our past contributions has been wiped clean and replaced with a new query. What have you done lately?