Mark de Solla Price

Mark de Solla Price (born May 17, 1960, in New Haven, Connecticut) is an author, journalist, public speaker, civil rights activist, and HIV/AIDS educator.[1] Price is a long-time Greenwich Village 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 HBO documentary Positively Naked with Spencer Tunick.

Mark de Solla Price

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 Derek J. de Solla Price. 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 AIDS-related cirrhosis.[2]

Bibliography
  • Living Positively in a World with HIV/AIDS - Avon Books ISBN 0-380-77623-5, ISBN 0-380-77623-5 (1995)

References
  1. Price, Mark de Solla (February–March 2001). "Liver Lovers". POZ. Retrieved 2007-07-16.
  2. "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.


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