Mark de Solla Price
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| Born | May 17, 1960 New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Father | Derek J. de Solla Price |
Mark de Solla Price (born May 17, 1960, in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American author, journalist, public speaker, civil rights activist, and HIV/AIDS educator.[1] Price authored the 1995 book Living Positively in a World with HIV/AIDS and was a featured subject (along with his late husband Vinny Allegrini) in the 2006 HBO documentary Positively Naked with Spencer Tunick.
Career and activism
De Solla Price was formerly Director of Information Technology for CDM Publishing, LLC (Smart + Strong : POZ Real Health AIDSmeds ComboCards).
De Solla Price was a marriage equality advocate prior to the nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage in 2015.[2]
He is a blogger at POZ magazine.[3] In late 2006, he went on disability leave from POZ.[4]
Personal life
He is the son of the historian of science Derek J. de Solla Price. He is of Spanish-Jewish and English-Jewish descent on his father's side, and his mother is Danish. He is a Unitarian Universalist.
De Solla Price tested positive for HIV in 1983. He began dating Vinny Allegrini in the early 1990s, and as of 2006 the couple lived in Greenwich Village. In 2006, de Solla Price was also diagnosed with hepatitis C.[2] De Solla Price's husband, Vinny Allegrini, died at 66 on March 4, 2015, from an AIDS-related cirrhosis.[5]
Bibliography
References
- ↑ Price, Mark de Solla (February–March 2001). "Liver Lovers". POZ. Retrieved 2007-07-16.
- 1 2 de Solla Price, Mark (2006-10-02). "How I Celebrated Hepatitis C Awareness Week". Hep. Retrieved 2024-05-20.
- ↑ "Mark de Solla Price". POZ. Retrieved 2024-05-20.
- ↑ Price, Mark de Solla (2007-05-30). "Six-Month Anniversary On Disability". Hep. Retrieved 2024-05-20.
- ↑ "In Memory of Vinny Allegrini (9/11/48-3/4/15) MarkandVinny.com". Mark de Solla Price. Archived from the original on 2016-04-04. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
External links
- Official Website Archived 2007-12-29 at the Wayback Machine
- Mark's HIV Blog
- Mark de Solla Price at IMDb
- Positively Naked
- 1960 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American male writers
- 21st-century American LGBTQ people
- 21st-century American male writers
- American activists with disabilities
- American bloggers
- American essayists
- American gay writers
- American HIV/AIDS activists
- American male essayists
- American people of Danish descent
- American people of Spanish-Jewish descent
- American self-help writers
- American spiritual writers
- American Unitarian Universalists
- American writers with disabilities
- LGBTQ bloggers
- LGBTQ writers with disabilities
- People with HIV/AIDS
- Writers from New Haven, Connecticut
- Writers from New York (state)
- LGBTQ rights activists from New York (state)