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Mark King

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  • Head of EMEA Content, Columbia Threadneedle Investments EMEA APAC
  • Contributor, POZ
Atlanta
As seen in: POZ, Medium, Yahoo News, Baltimore Sun, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Yahoo, The Advocate Magazine, LGBTQ Nation, Queerty, NewsBreak, The Washington Blade and
Activist and writer of all things HIV adjacent. 2020 GLAAD Awardee and author of 'My Fabulous Disease: Chronicles of a Gay Survivor'

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Health Is Primary

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By Mark King 
| POZ
Cleve Jones had had enough. After watching the tumultuous first year of the second Trump administration with incredulity and disgust, the long-term survivor of HIV and iconic AIDS figure was dumbstruck when, in late 2025, the administration announced that it would not observe World AIDS Day, marked each December 1. It was the first time the event was ignored by any White House since the first annual commemoration in 1988.
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Something Huge is Happening. Get on Board Now.

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By Mark King 
| POZ
I’m going to make this quick because this is happening right now and you should be joining in and not reading this blog. AIDS activism godfathersCleve JonesandSean Strubgot their sizable brains together to createSeven Days in June, a national and nonpartisan campaign to highlight the issues of affordability and healthcare during the very busy election primary month of June 2026. The campaign is featured in an upcoming feature story for the June 2026 issue of POZ Magazine. That’s in a few weeks.
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Something Huge is Happening. Get on Board Right Now.

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By Mark King 
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Some of the “Seven Days in June” sponsor organizations. I’m going to make this quick because this is happening right now and you should be joining in and not reading my blog. AIDS activism godfathers Cleve Jones and Sean Strub got their sizable brains together to create Seven Days in June, a national and nonpartisan campaign to highlight the issues of affordability and healthcare during the very busy election primary month of June 2026. That’s in a few weeks.
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