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Hosting on E! TV made Mark Malkin famous, but it's his marriage to Fabian Quezada-Malkin, one of Hollywood's most sought-after hair colorists,  that he's most proud of. The two men, both HIV-positive, talk about their very different lives (Quezada-Malkin is an immigrant), facing fear, coming out and coming together, and why we need to talk about HIV now more than ever. Plus: Fighting HIV criminalization on campus, whitewashing HIV history, Keith Haring fashion, and the treatment and prevention breakthroughs for 2018.

Entertainment reporter Marc Malkin says his husband’s love and support gave him strength to come out as HIV-positive.

Looking good in a T-shirt led ABC entertainment reporter Karl Schmid to come out HIV-positive in a social media post that went viral. Now, we’re all mad about the guy.

This Texas-bred boy-next-door won a gay reality dating competition — and the devotion of fans — by coming out as HIV-positive. Now he’s paying it forward.

After a decade away from Hollywood, The Real World star Karamo Brown is back on MTV and is ready to take on the high rates of HIV in the black community.

Former basketball star DeMarco Majors talks about surviving assault and living with HIV.

He mesmerized us as Omar on The Wire, charmed us as Chalky on Boardwalk Empire, and still has us coming back for more as half of the titular Hap and Leonard. So expertly crafting another gay character on TV (real-life, HIV-positive veteran Ken Jones on When We Rise) was smooth sailing for the actor and activist. But the reasons why he took this role was way more personal than many realize.