Lofton, Rodney: - Rodney Lofton began his career as a freelance writer for Spice magazine. His writing has also appeared in The Malebox, an African American gay publication, where he wrote articles on current topics in gay black culture. He became a speaker in the HIV/AIDS community after beating the odds of his own HIV diagnosis and has served as Keynote Speaker and requested facilitator by the New Jersey World AIDS Day Celebration, the Ryan White National Youth Conference, the United States Conference on AIDS, and countless others. He is the author of his memoir The Day I Stopped Being Pretty and the novel No More Tomorrows.