POZ

The June issue of POZ magazine is now online! Featuring: Mark S. King’s “The Sound of Stigma”, A Journey with Visual AIDS, HIV vaccination trials, Treatment updates & more.

To check it out, click here.

My Sad and Trivial Night with Rock Hudson

POZ Blogger, Mark S. King reminisces an unforgettable night with the famous actor. Rock Hudson was HIV-positive and died in 1985.

The Private War That Killed Spencer Cox

AIDS did not kill Spencer Cox in the first, bloodiest battles of the 1980’s. It spared him that.

The reprieve allowed Spencer’s brilliance as co-founder of the Treatment Action Group (TAG)  to forge new FDA guidelines for drug approval and help make effective HIV medications a reality, saving an untold number of lives.

Such triumph by a man still in his twenties might have signaled even greater achievements ahead. Instead, Spencer found himself adrift in the same personal crisis as many of his contemporaries, who struggled for a meaningful existence after years of combating the most frightening public health crisis of modern times.

Read more of Mark S. King’s blog: http://blogs.poz.com/marksking/2013/01/the_private_war_that.html

The Night Don Lemon Hugged Me

We talked about HIV stigma and Madonna lighting. He shared a story of seeing an AIDS patient on a New York City street years ago. I interjected my new favorite topic, the injustice of HIV criminalization. We were two very different men comfortable in our own skin, who refused to allow shame a place at the table.

Read more of Mark S. King’s blog : http://blogs.poz.com/marksking/2012/12/don_lemon.html