The Gay Dating Show was a popular quasi love quiz in the early 1990s on Amsterdam’s local television station Salto, featuring performances, interviews and informative films about AIDS. Dressed in exuberant costumes, singer and AIDS activist Geert Visser (1960-1992) presented the show as Hellun Zelluf. The formula, combining AIDS education and entertainment was unique. It transcended the stereotype image of pathetic HIV victim and tragic AIDS patient. It looked at issues such as women and AIDS, the discussion about the acceptability or not of anal sex and at the same time it played havoc with the prim and proper world in which we live (Please don’t shock the neighbours). Plans to transfer the Gay Dating Show to national television did not materialise, because Visser himself became too ill to continue. In 1992, he died at the age of 31 from AIDS-related causes.