Jill Jones’ ties to the LGBT community go back to her childhood in Lebanon, Ohio, where she was raised by her maternal grandparents while her mom worked in the music business in Los Angeles.

Her uncle, who would become the hairdresser for Prince, with whom Jones worked and was personally involved with, was gay.

“I think he grew up in a time, because of our family and different things, he went back and forth about feeling completely free to show and be himself,” Jones said. “There’s been a lot of shame attached in his life, with religion (the family were practicing Jehovah’s Witnesses) and the African-American community. That’s my family. It wasn’t as open. I remember my grandmother crying. She kept wondering what she did. I was a little girl.

“He ended up never really being with anybody that we knew of. He went on obligatory dates with women when he was younger to appease the family. I saw that and it bothered me.”

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