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By the time he was 40, Jett had lost 40 friends to the AIDS epidemic. He began volunteer work with the charitable organizations Aid For AIDS, Elizabeth Taylor’s amfAR, and Cable Positive.

As someone who preferred his programs to be a little more "on the edge," Jett developed a show that would eventually become the network’s top premiere program. The Queer Edge with Jack E. Jett became hit on the network. Each week a different co-host would join Jett. Co-hosts included Charo, Kim Coles, Butch Patrick (The Munsters), and Randy Jones (The Village People).

When Q Television began to falter, a new management team was sent in, but the network was never able to recover. As a result, Jett ended up with total ownership of the 145 episodes of The Queer Edge. The shows can be seen on TLA Video On Demand, as well as Jett’s own online channel, FUTV in JetTVision, operated in conjunction with World of Wonder.

Jack E. Jett died of a heart attack in Texas on March 21, 2015 soon after celebrating his 21st anniversary with his partner, John Gennusa.

The Dallas Observer stated that Jett was to host a new program on Dallas radio station KFXR-AM "CNN 1190" starting on January 25, 2010. In the newspaper's blog posting announcing the show, Jett was quoted as saying

As of May 2010, Jett was co-hosting a show with Rob Lobster on Dallas-area AM station KFCD called ilume-A-Nation Radio, featuring what Jett called "guilty pleasure yourself songs," once-popular songs now widely disliked.

In the year of 2001, Jack E. Jett released a DVD through TLA Video entitled The Gayest Show on Earth. This DVD quickly became a viral cult classic. The DVDs were sent to various college dorms around the world. The DVD quickly sold out and is out of print.

In early 1990, Jett returned to his native Dallas, Texas. Having been an avid fan of public-access television cable TV in Los Angeles, Jett found a very limited public-access television selection in Dallas. He decided to create a show that featured various oddball characters and freaks of nature. The show became a local cult classic, and soon became available on cable access stations in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, and Austin.

Through a fluke meeting at The China Club in the early 1980s, Mr. Jett was offered a contract to model for Cinq Deux Un ("521"), an agency in Tokyo, Japan. Jett's modeling career lasted for the next eight years. Then known as "Jhett," he became one of the highest paid male models in the world in 1982, with contracts in Milan, Paris, Los Angeles, and Barcelona. Jett also appeared in Playgirl that year, in a profile about his career and life in Beverly Hills. He met The Go-Go's lead singer Belinda Carlisle, and they quickly became best friends.

Jack E. Jett (June 17, 1956 – March 21, 2015) was the first openly gay American talk show host.