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We now realise that fight- Ing the virus in the human body is mas- sively complex and tackling the prejudice, stigma, confusion and misunderstanding that fuels It in soclety Is no more simple ‘What we do all know ~ you, me and the real ‘experts —is that each one of us can be HIV's ‘worst enemy or best friend, In this issue we preview GMFA's new campaign which asks all of us to make a few basic commitments; to test regularly to stay informed, to refute prejudice and stereotyping and to protect ‘ourselves. It's an approach that could make ‘a dramatic difference to fighting the spread of the virus. ‘Also in this issue we asked some positive ‘and negative guys to flash us some flesh and talk about HIV in thelr lives. Working with THT we wanted to highlight that positive people could lead otherwise healthy, full lives and that you couldn't tell someone’s status just by looking at them. Itwas no surprise that the issues they ralse In our short interviews are closely reflected in the GMFA strategy. We hope that their comments get us all talking and thinking In this month leading up to WAD ‘on 1 December. also hope you enjoy the rest of this December issue, from our interview with the charming and sexy Shayne Ward to our ‘workout which will help you get biceps just like his and all the rest. m Teery Gee has surgins pop degree mart tran simaditely 04 by Sexand pon thetact he asthe and 595 DvDeolctonct a immarealy.” Wl bvousy! 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Ive run a group called Real Voices” for gay or bisexual inmates which is well supported and at tended ('m not saying that Just because I'm the secretary) and we try to meet twice a month wher staffing levels allow. There ae sila tow problems now and again though, mostly rom the ‘group we call“plastic gangsters" in prison. The prison population is a ‘rose section of males in society, and Its my opinion that most, I not all men, have abi-cuious sce to them, | idnt become active unt | was in my 40s and was amazed at the number of men who use tolls, ‘woods, carparks ete for sexual ‘contact. By far the majority are what would be termed normal men, heterosexual and often married, but who need intmacy wth other men, ‘The same applies prison, andin | any gtoup of men, such asthe armed forces. You would be surprised, (or | then again maybe you wouldnt) at the number of men in prison who hide their sexuality and amongst them ‘are some who are the most openly verbally homophobic, that's usually a {good clue asto theirtrueteslings. | WW Taylor, Nottinghamshire ero f the month ecr We didn’t realise Inthe November issue of GT! believe have spotted a typo inthe Heather Small article, One of Heath- ers answers reads "What people don release is that for my entre career Ive had dentures” Surely it should have read "What people don't realise is that for my entire career, I've had dentures: Heather Small then clearly points cut that's a joke, ls the speting ‘error ajoke also or a poor job by your proof reader? Maurice Patrick Crossley, Aberdeenshire Editor repios: We are sorry for the error We're wanted Can | just say, you guys never {all to impress when itcomes to ‘making sure | get my pretty boy fix. Those Wanted boys ae FIT. 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Not that we're being stalkerieh or anything, he's done one of those calen- dare where In some months hopefully the warmer ones — he's letting his ur ly nthe wind, ‘And i you want to meet the man Inthe flesh hell be signing the calendar in the London Prowier store (prowler.co.uk) on 20 November at pm, at ‘aytines.co ukWe either overlooked The Kixx in our boyband round-up a few issues ago or they're SO NOW that we're practically lining up to a future cover. Or at least trying to get them naked. They're four 19-year-olds from Reading - Dave, Robbie, David and Jack to be precise - and the chances are you’ve maybe not seen them “in action” yet given that they've just finished a tour of, err, schools. Still, if it’s good enough for screaming adolescent girls... Ever wantoto tak one of Sipping gt renes ot Sewcinae » ‘Whetever you make the ~ oc tetlcan ‘them on God, week days are rubbish. What are you supposed to do when the X Factor isn't on? I don't know about you, but I'm whipping iy hair back and forth. Who do you think you are, Willow Smith? You're not exactly first inline for the Wil-Smith's-daughter-lookalike- contest. Or passing for a gil who is nine years old, Even if you make that dog years, *Starts whipping hair* La la la! Fine, if you're not going to listen to me, Il just sit here and entertain myself with a Muppet mash up on YouTube... “slows down whipping™ Didn't they do lewd things with Katy Perry? If they havent it’s only @ matter of time. As is a shouty out of tune cover by the gurning Cher Lloyd on X Factor. Oh my god, we're another five minutes closer to the next Live Final. Where's my weave? sayties.coukice to meat you NFIRST secr She’s been the voice of Belle from Beauty and the Beast since the beginning and now she paints for Disney — but how much of a princess is Paige O’Hara? Dieney princesses follow thelr hearts and not thelr heads, gving up their voice to get a man, ell ing their sou tothe dvi to save aman, and Belle fling for an tlghtfoot monster. Do you tnd to follow your head or your heart Inte? Oh, that's a hard one. | tend to follow my heart, just Because I'm ‘a sole whan it comes to my family ‘and my friends —to the point where ‘my husband Michael isthe opposite and he says "Ok, Paige, you can't ive up your whole ie to take care of your family 5/5 ses ustke Bale SHRIEK It you had to choose between the muscled, good-looking and primeval Gaston or the Beast who ‘would you choose? Oh, the Beast! He's so charming and wonderful ang has a beautiful soul You only know that now. (Laughs) | ‘mean Gaston maybe for a nigh 5/5 Tats what we want hes Do you ever catch yourself singing around the house and Ifo are they from Beauty and the Beast? Of course. Absolutely Beauty and the Beast not so much Human Again sometimes. | sing a lot of Judy because Im worklng on ‘a musical based on the life of Judy Gatland right now. i's been in the process fortwo years and i's actu ally petty dan good. 'm hoping | ccan bing something special tot. It's for Broadway; t's called Judy ‘The Musical. | grew up idolising her, and ve done tributes to her in my act for years Do you believe in true love and “happily ever after”? Yes, Id. Lrealy do. We have our troubles ‘and our fights, but Ive been wth Michael now for 22 years. | ad a horrible marriage before Michael and that made me pretty cyni calfor a while, but wth Michast | wasn looking. | was ata friend's partment and we were singing cover a piano to Kurt Weill~ One “Touch of Venus and ironically i was my ex husband that hired him [Wichael. So, that was the best thing my ex husband ever di. 5/5 Teal tepgy hock up and acoupict ‘wipes atthe x Love Het Have you ever wished upon a star as an adult? | did when I was Ite, when | loved the movie Pinoc ‘’hio. I would dream of being inthe theatre, and why not? It you could wish upen a star now, what would you wish for? Do you sill do thar? Maybe | shoul ‘get back to that. You know what, | do need to get back to that 115 vouras wistingona’ Your father hae decided to Invent something and name it fter you, ‘what would you wish for it to be? (Pause) | can’t think of anything that would help world peace. My biggest agony is what's going on wth the warn Afghanistan and poverty and homelessness. | just wish there was some magic cure, 3/5 wore talng princoseos not boauty agearts Page What can a princess never be without? Her lipstick (aughs). Dar ling, she's gotta have her make-up, 45 Aimost is actunly apne wih a You've invited us to be your guest ata lavish dinner party, what ‘would you (or a talking candle stick) serve? | couldn't serve the {ood that | te. ma vegetarian and | eat very strange food. Id serve wat I'd think you would tke: multiple ‘courses of diferent meate, vageta- bles and sweets, and fantastic wine. But would defintely have a sido dish of my whole-wheat pasta 3/5 st pve uth boty uly {alkoy te end ot ne evening anyway. 30/40 \We dort actuaty care what she scored, we gotto TOUCH Bale Hom Beatty ar ‘he Beast Arem. whichis ot row a8 8 Diamond Eaton cn Disney Oeule Psy sytimes co.uk121doc.o.uk Getting treatment has never been so convenient At 12Adoc, there's no need to wait weeks for an appointment, or worry about the embarrassment of talking to your dactor face-to-face about personal health issues. 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And hey, how many other ‘gays getto reply to that creariest cof questions “what did you do last right” with "you know. the usual, chatted to Vanessa Wiliams” loan deny that we hounded her - we even got Michael Urie to forward what was basically an ‘email declaring our love to her. ‘What can we say? We learned all our tactics from Mode, And here we are — she's on her way to Memphis to film the US version of ‘Who Do You Think You Are, taking ‘break from the show she's just Joined, our other favourite gay-but- ot-actually-gay show Desperate Housewives. She's playing Renee Perry, former college frend of Lynette Scavo. And we've heard she's abit ofa vixen. "You could say she’s Wilhelmina te," Vanessa chuckles. “She's not {85 devious, not as fashion forward and certainly not as diabolical. But she tries to bring her New York style to Wisteria Lane and she gets Imo abit of rouble, but i's not at a level | was used to on Ugly Betty, It's allon a very suburban level” she laughs again, ‘She thinks for a moment when asked it Renee is as fun to play as the Meade's arch-nemesis, W's completly diferent. Wihelmi na was such a joy, The cast was Incredible, my surroundings were Impeccable, my wardrobe was be- yond creative and up-to-date, having Pat Fields atthe helm. | was realy working in an alternate universe With that character. This is as much ‘a dose of realty as | could possibly get, even though Renee is someone who has money and doesn't realy, saytines.couk Work hard at much of anything,” she chuckles once mare, “I's completely aitferent and 'm enjoying myself on Wisteria Lane” | ask if shes stil surprised at Ugly Batty being cancelled "Oh yeah, we all are. But the Person that made that decision is. no longer at the network so just was an unfortunate time for us as fa show. | know that we were not ready, we had many stories to tll | knew we ware nat clase ta the fond by any means. That was a decision that we're al still scratch- ing our heads over, We miss each ‘other terribly, we talk to each other allthe time. We text each other, Michael [Ure] and I, Beck [New- ton] we were at her baby shower @ couple of weeks ago, she's due in 1 couple of weeks.” ‘She stats listing allthe cast and it {quickly becomes apparent that the network didn’ ust fnish an incred- ible show, they broke up a family The cast, tturns out, didn't even get to keep any mementos “No, the tragedy" she groans. “The network wouldn't lt us take anything, wardrobe or furniture, Which was really kind of heat: breaking because there were ‘a couple of leone pleces that | wanted for my house, especially ‘rom Wilhelmina’ fice and apart ment, which I couldn't get because the network wanted to sell them. | don't even know i they made mon- ey back. Leaving witha really bad taste after we were cancelled and we couldn't. We were wiling to pay for the things that we wanted 1 purchase and we were told no, so that was. ot great. We realy felt badly about that” Bt don't let that rule out the chances ofthe cast reuniting “Ive head nothing,” she admits We'd all ove o dot in a second, in ‘heartbeat. But I've heard nothing and they destroyed everything They ripped athe sets down, hich again was heartbreaking, | dont even know whether i's being stored anywhere, We had a great FIRST time while it lasted for four years. ‘She laughs when | ell her that, ridiculously, the show defines alot cof what we do, | ask what her most ridiculous moment on the show was. “Have you gotten tothe water fight vith Wihelmina and Claire yet? “That was the most ridiculous thing, being able to have a catfight in the water ft was the most un day that wa had together. twas hilarious, that’s insane” ‘Speaking of insane ~two off.the- ‘sale gay moments crop up during ‘our chat, Fitstly ~ she's appear Ing as a judge on season three ot FuPaul's Drag Race. “Iwas great, | got a chance to ‘mest all the contestants and see them prepare. And then, oh my god I've gat to say the two contestants ‘end up doing their ypsych-off to one cf my songs, so that was lovely, it was great” Secondly, she's just finished a Broadway run of Sondheim on Sond- heim, which, when she reveals she might gett perform in London, elicits ‘an audible gasp trom yours truly. “heard that they're actually about to star the same production that we {id over In London so | was tying to get over there fr atleast a six to eight week stint but | don't know whether they're going to hire Brits ori theyl allow us to come in of ‘ot. Butt can do that inbetween the hiatus on Housewives Id love to ‘come over tothe West End and do Sondheim, that'd be great.” ‘The GT campaign to get Vanessa to the West End starts now. With all this chat of how increaible Ualy Betty was (UK viewers will see the final episode air on 22 December) | askifit was strange being the new hhousewite on Wisteria Lane. “Well! actually end up getting into ‘a catfight with Eva Longoria in one of ‘our episodes coming up..” AMAZING. Vanessa laughs hard, “Exactly. So {quess I'm carrying on the theme! Desperate Hounewivs and Ualy Betty eon (Channel 4 Sundays