Hiv Frontlines

When Mark King was 20, he moved to West Hollywood. It was the early 1980s, and King was set on pursuing his acting career and soaking up the gay scene. He never expected to find himself in the middle of the darkest time in the U.S. HIV epidemic, caring for close friends as they became sick and died, while struggling with his own diagnosis. In this powerful, emotional interview with The Body, King recounts the tremendous courage of people who fought through the epidemic in those early years.