Stephen Fry is making a BBC documentary about friends who are HIV positive and those who have passed on through HIV related illnesses. The openly gay actor, author and comedian, 49, is filming ‘Stephen Fry: HIV And Me' to mark the 25th anniversary of UK AIDS charity The Terrence Higgins Trust. He says: “I'm not HIV positive myself, but the documentary is something very close to my heart as I have friends who have died from AIDS and who are HIV positive. I've also worked for the Trust for a long time.” The new project follows the success and praise of Fry's most recent TV project ‘The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive', which saw him explore his personal struggle with bi-polar disorder. Fry has been open about his homosexuality for many years. He once joked that, "It all began when I came out the womb. I looked back up at my mother and thought to myself, 'That's the last time I'm going up one of those.'" The ever-busy entertainer is also making two other BBC programmes on very different subjects. The five-parter ‘Stephen Fry In America' sees him travelling across the States in a London cab while the six-parter ‘Last Chance To See' features him and zoologist Mark Carwardine searching for animals on the verge of extinction. Ref: The Sun, Pinknews.co.uk (m)