You can read the POZ Magazine story, “Meth Still Kills,” right here. The vulnerability shown to me by these gay men was beyond anything I had expected. Soon thereafter, addiction and sex therapist David Fawcett, PhD ( Lust, Men and Meth: A Gay Man’s Guide to Recovery ) spoke to me for the article, as well as long-term survivor Doug Rose and more recently diagnosed Breaun Randle, both of whom have battled meth addiction. I was astonished by his willingness and candidness. Ĭhuck became my first interview for the story, only two days after he found the body of his roommate, Mark. Someone I knew, Mark Wingo, had died of a meth overdose, and his roommate, Chuck Parker, posted the news and plainly said that meth was the cause.
No sooner had POZ Magazine editor Oriol Gutierrez accepted my pitch to do a feature story about meth, gay men and HIV than a stunning Facebook post came across my feed.
