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Scissor Sisters multi-instrumentalist Babydaddy has been supporting The Gender and Sexuality Advocacy and Education Program at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., long before the bullying of gay youth made headlines the past month following the suicide of Rutger’s student Tyler Clementi.

“They approached me early on because they had heard a radio interview I had done for MPR [Minnesota Public Radio] talking about having a somewhat awkward childhood being a gay kid,” says Babydaddy, whose birth name is Scott Hoffman.

“It’s an organization that helps young kids — boys who don’t necessarily identify as boyish boys and girls who don’t identify as girlish girls — and it’s an organization to protect them and help people understand what they must be going through, which I think is a wonderful cause.”