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.
