![]() I’d like everything to last forever, but it doesn’t necessarily. Obviously not everyone feels that way, but certainly for me, I feel like nothing lasts forever. You’re always sort of on the edge of life when everything could end. I think that song was mainly just about the idea that we take for granted our relationships and we take for granted our lives. I always use it as sort of an inspiration when she leaves, even though we’re completely happy and fine and nothing in our lives is really all that dramatic. Their accompanying album ‘Hey, I’m Just Like You’ is released on the September 26.I’ve been in a relationship for nearly five years now and my partner travels a little bit. ‘High School’ by Tegan and Sara is published by Virago on September 24 in hardback. “I just really hope this book and the new record will show everybody that we are just like them. “I think back to our youth and about how it took a long time to get to be the people we are today, to feel confident and to be successful. There’s still terrible things that happen and systemic barriers for LGBTQ+ people."Ībove everything, Tegan wants their fans to know her and Sara didn't just become overnight celebrities. A lot of their reactions are fear-based and, even in 2019, rightfully so. I try to push for patience and understanding, try to have empathy for your parents. There’s still people who don’t get it and we have to find each other, support one another, and encourage our allies to continue to speak out.”įor any young queer fans yet to tell their parents about their identity, Tegan says, “I always tell young people that your parents don’t have their whole lives to prepare for that coming out moment whereas you do. “There’s so much great representation and there’s a community online, but there’s still a ton of negativity in the press. “There certainly feels like there has never been a better time to identify as LGBTQ+,” Tegan says of the bittersweet position the queer community is in right now. ![]() The pair hope the book, which is told by each of them in alternating chapters, will bring comfort to “anyone who has been an adolescent and struggled”. It just felt very important to us to tell our story and create a space for people like us,” she says. “There are just so few books written by women in the music industry, and there’s very few written by queer women. She hopes 'High School' will be valuable as an insight into the queer experience. The memoir takes us through their younger years, their struggles with acceptance and their queer identities, drugs and alcohol, fear and love and, ultimately, what happens when you become an adult. “Our start was kind of tough and figuring out who we were was hard,” Tegan tells Cosmopolitan UK. And, with their new revealing memoir 'High School' (which coincides with the release of their ninth studio album 'Hey, I'm Just Like You' - all re-recordings of demos from their high school days), they are returning back to those early days. Both identify as lesbians, and are legit icons within LGBTQ+ circles for their open and honest discussions about their sexuality in their music.Īfter the sisters graduated high school, they decided to pursue a career in music rather than going to uni. ![]() The Grammy-nominated duo from Canada are known for songs ‘Walking With a Ghost’, and ‘Closer’, while anyone who loved The LEGO Movie (how could you not?!) will know the earworm ‘Everything Is Awesome’ that they wrote for the film. Identical twins sisters Tegan and Sara Quinn are, undoubtedly, musical legends.
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