Mark de Solla Price (born May 17, 1960, in

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) is an author, journalist, public speaker, civil rights activist, and HIV/AIDS educator. Price is a long-time

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resident and a Unitarian Universalist, and the author of the book ''Living Positively in a World with HIV/AIDS''. He was a featured subject (along with his late husband Vinny Allegrini) in the

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documentary ''Positively Naked'' with

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. Formerly Director of Information Technology for CDM Publishing, LLC (Smart + Strong : POZ Real Health AIDSmeds ComboCards). He is the son of the historian of science

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. He is of Spanish-Jewish and English-Jewish descent on his father's side, and his mother is Danish. Price was widowed when his husband Vinny Allegrini died at 66 on March 4, 2015, from an

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-related

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Bibliography

* ''Living Positively in a World with HIV/AIDS'' - Avon Books , (1995)

References

External links

Official Website

Mark's HIV Blog
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Positively Naked
1960 births Living people Writers from New Haven, Connecticut Writers from New York (state) American essayists American people of English-Jewish descent American people of Danish descent American people of Spanish-Jewish descent American self-help writers American spiritual writers American Unitarian Universalists American gay writers HIV/AIDS activists Jewish American writers American LGBT rights activists People with HIV/AIDS American male essayists 21st-century American Jews {{LGBT-activist-stub