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Sellards went to Occidental College in Los Angeles with an old schoolfriend of his future bandmate Scott Hoffman (aka Babydaddy); when at age 19 he went to visit her in Lexington, Kentucky , he met Hoffman. Sellards and Hoffman hit it off immediately and, a year later, both moved to New York (Hoffman going to Columbia College ). In New York, Sellards attended Eugene Lang College , where he studied fiction writing, and eventually earned a living writing snarky articles for the gay magazine HX . For a while, Sellards was a fixture on the New York gay and Electroclash scene, as well as a Stripper in alternative Gay Bar s (including the legendary IC-Guyz). The Scissor Sisters formed in 2002 as a kind of performance art lark, playing outrageous shows in clubs like Luxx , the heart of the electroclash scene in Williamsburg, Brooklyn , where Sellards lived. After a couple years struggling in New York (working with record label A Touch Of Class , who produced "Comfortably Numb" and "Filthy/Gorgeous"), the Sisters finally found success in the UK/Ireland. Shears performs with Erasure 's Andy Bell on "Thought It Was You", on Bell's 2005 album Electric Blue . Shears' musical influences include Duran Duran, Roxy music and Dolly Parton and he also recently attended Sir Elton John's "hen" party before he wed to partner David Furnish. In Concert , Shears is known for provocative dancing and often going near- Nude , hearkening back to his former occupation as a stripper. He, along with his band, has become especially popular in the GLBT community. Shears and fellow band members Babydaddy and Del Marquis are all openly gay. EXTERNAL LINKS
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