In an interview with gay glossy The
Advocate, Jake Shears discussed his 11-year relationship with
director Chris Moukarbel.
The 36-year-old Shears is best known as
the lead male singer for the group Scissor Sisters.
He currently stars as Greta in a new
production of Martin Sherman's landmark 1979 play Bent, which
is playing at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.
Shears said that the play, which tells
the story of two gay men who fall in love in a concentration camp in
Nazi Germany, is “about all those who came before us.”
“And all this that we have now is
because we're really standing on the shoulders of others who suffered
a lot and who are not alive to see what's happened,” he
said.
“It's important to remember that
there were many here before us and that it's been a long haul and it
still is – it's still a long haul for a lot of other people around
the world who don't really have as much freedom as we do.”
On the longevity of his 11-year
relationship with director Chris Moukarbel (Sex On), Shears
said that the secret was “keeping the switch on.”
“It's just like – we just get on
great,” he explained. “We're both creative in our own ways, and
we're just really lucky to have found each other. We have an amazing
rhythm to our relationship, you know? It works, and we're in it for
the long haul.”