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BBC News - December 1, 2006
Andy Bell, who is a frequent visitor to East Sussex, opened Think Pink at The Arts Forum in St Leonards on Friday.
The week-long exhibition is billed as a bid to turn Hastings into a rival to neighbouring "gay capital" Brighton.
"The idea is to get people to think about what it means to be gay and have HIV," said organiser Alastair Fairley.
'About politics'
Some of the art is "on the risque side", according to exhibitor, photographer Andrew Woodyatt.
"But it is really about the politics behind the whole issue of Aids and Aids awareness."
Mr Bell, who now also works as an artist, was diagnosed HIV positive in 1997.
"I have been coming to Hastings for the past year-and-a-half because my new boyfriend lives here and I have been welcomed with open arms," he said.
"I have got friends displaying work at the exhibition so I thought I should do whatever I could to help."
Half the proceeds from the exhibition are to be donated to HIV and Aids charity, the Terrence Higgins Trust.
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