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`On the stage, Jake Shears is a triumphant explosion of
unembarrassed carnality and charm. On the page, he's very much the
same. Boys Keep Swinging is one courageous joyride of a memoir. It
should be illegal for rock stars to write so beautifully.' -
Armistead Maupin `The purpose of my life is to entertain. It's a
constant feedback loop.' Before becoming lead singer in the
fabulous Scissor Sisters, Jake Shears was Jason Sellards, just a
kid with an unfathomable imagination and a love of He-Man dolls.
Splitting life between Arizona and the Pacific West Coast, his
childhood was marked by school bullies and the terror of the rise
and misunderstanding surrounding the AIDS virus. With changes in
age and geography Shears gradually found a sense of belonging -
first in Seattle, then in the street life and lights of New York
City in the late 90s where, with friends and musicians also
thirsting for freedom and the stage, he would form Scissor Sisters
and go on to sell out venues worldwide. This is a wide-eyed and
determined coming-of-age story from a world famous LGBTQ+ icon, but
its heartbeat is Shears' friendship with Mary Hanlon, who he met
via The Edge, a prehistoric chatroom, when he was 15 and she was
21. For years Shears lived in New York with a landline for which
only Mary knew the number. Although long-distance, self-absorption
and changing circumstances would take their toll on the friendship,
this was the safe-house that sheltered a pair of misfits from the
unthinking prejudices of a fearful world, a haven to which both
would always return, and for which Shears wrote the song 'Mary'.
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