Scissor Sister's AIDS heartbreak
Scissor Sisters frontwoman Ana Lynch was heartbroken when her father died of AIDS when she just 14.
The Laura singer, who is known in the band as Ana Matronic, witnessed her parents marriage fall apart at the tender age of three, when her father revealed he was homosexual.
While Ana grew up seeing both parents regularly, she was devastated when her sister Kate announced their father had contracted the deadly disease.
Ana recalls: "I was angry. Not so much at him, more at circumstance and the universe for dealing me this hand."
After visiting her father in hospital after he developed pneumonia in Christmas 1989, Ana returned to school and found out he had passed away when her father's boyfriend Don telephoned.
She says: "I thought he was going to be okay, that I'd visit again soon.
"I was sitting down (when I found out) and I just dropped the phone, put my face in my hands and started to cry.
"I felt, and still feel, I didn't know him as a person. That's the hardest thing."
And Ana believes she is drawn to gay men as friends in a bid to feel closer to her dad.
She adds: "I think subconsciously I made friends with so many gay men because I was trying to form a posthumous closeness with my dad.
"My boyfriend Seth is the gayest straight man on the planet."
