HIV-AIDS advocate found dead in office

By The Texas Metro News Team

Abounding Prosperity (AP) founder and CEO Kirk Myers-Hill was found dead in his office at Abounding Prosperity Inc. on Tuesday morning, April 4, 2023.

Known for offering a variety of healthcare and wellness services specializing in HIV care in South Dallas, especially for the Black community; Myers-Hill’s impact in the African American

LGBTQ community was – to use a familiar word: abounding.

Myers-Hill, was the unstoppable founder and chief executive officer of the nonprofit.

One could say that AP put the issue of alternative lifestyle on the map in Dallas’s African American community, particularly among LGBTQ Black males; while also calling attention to the treatment of the transgender community.

He is also known for his famil- iar and inspirational quote: “We can’t wait for others to save our community,” Myers-Hill said often. “It is up to us to save ourselves.”

When he founded AP, 18 years ago in 2005, his efforts lifted many heads that had been bowed in secret shame, living undercover because of their gender reversal – either a choice or compulsion to live as the oth-