Jake Shears

Jake Shears is the vocalist of Scissor Sisters, and he's TOTALLY gay and HOOT. Come on boys, this is our guy

Shears was born in Arizona but grew up north of Seattle, on San Juan Island. While living on San Juan he went to school at Friday Harbor High School. When he was 15 he moved into the dorm at The Northwest School in Seattle and finished high school there. Shears attended Occidental College in Los Angeles. When Shears was 19, he traveled to Lexington, Kentucky to visit a classmate, who introduced him to Scott Hoffman (Babydaddy). Shears and Hoffman hit it off immediately and, a year later, both moved to New York.

Shears' early performances include a play of Narnia in 1993, directed by Fred Yockers.

In New York, Shears attended Eugene Lang College, where he studied fiction writing and was classmates with Travis Jeppesen, and wrote pieces for the gay magazine HX. For a while, Shears, who is openly gay,[1] was a fixture on the New York gay and electroclash scene.

In 2000, Shears also worked as a music reviewer for Paper magazine.

Shears announced at the 2010 Glastonbury Festival that on the day of performing (26th June 2010), it had been 6 years since he had met his boyfriend (referred to as "Chris"). The two are not married, but have recently become engaged following a proposal from Shears "when we were both absolutely wasted".