Jake Shears ‘Coming out at 15 was intense’

about 4 years in The guardian

The musician, 41, on snoring, partying, raising fawns, toilet training and Zsa Zsa Gabor
Zsa Zsa Gabor, David Bowie and TV evangelists were obsessions of mine when I was eight years old. I was a weird, off-the-wall kid with a strange sense of humour, but I was surrounded by enough people who loved me and knew how to nurture me.
Growing up on a tiny island in northwest Washington was gorgeous. I lived by the water, raised a fawn, watched whales. My parents were quite conservative, but a lot of hippies lived in the area, so a real counterculture existed. Continue reading...

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