1 Girl 5 Gays is a Canadian talk show

Talk show

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 that premiered on 14 October 2009 on MTV (Canada). In October 2010, gay-interest sister network Logo

Logo (TV channel)

Logo is an American digital cable television channel owned by Viacom's MTV Networks division. Launched in June 2005, the channel's programs are geared towards the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community...

 picked up the program and started airing it in the United States.

Format

In each episode, MTV host Aliya Jasmine Sovani

Aliya Jasmine Sovani

Aliya-Jasmine "AJ" Sovani is a television personality and producer. She anchors MTV News and hosts the talk show 1 Girl 5 Gays on Logo and MTV ....

 sits down with a cast of five homosexual men to discuss love and sex. The panel of "5 gays" is an always-changing group of men, each having differing backgrounds and points of view. The show explores topics such as abortion

Abortion

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, HIV

HIV

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, rape

Rape

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, and more lighthearted themes such as romance and pleasure.

For the start of their third season in 2011, the show did a four-episode series where Sovani had a cast of five lesbians answering questions.

When the show airs during prime time

Prime time

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, some segments are grayed out and muted, with a notice that the uncensored show will air later.

Cast

• Brett Ashley
• Kash Baloch
• Matt Barker
• Jean-Paul Bevilacqua
• Alex Brown
• Juan Manuel Gonzalez Calcaneo
• Ryan Carter
• Adam Chan
• Andrew Charles Edwards
• Ishmael Furoz
• Shawn Hitchins
• Taylor James
• Gerry King
• Gaelan Love
• Ian Lynch
• Simon Lysnes
• Dean McArthur
• Jonathan Morton-Schuster
• Jake Mossop
• Jonathan Nathaniel
• Joseph Palmeri
• David Robert
• Ralph Rosario
• Matt Santos
• Matt Sims
• Marc Andrew Smith
• Philip Tetro
• Thomas Trafford
• Michael Yerxa
• Max Claude