To look around now and see so much support - and so many other LGBTQ artists thriving - is astonishing. But we did it, and it did make a difference. Honestly, it was exhausting to be constantly in the position to explain or to educate people around us. In the early years, that made us outsiders, and we faced a lot of homophobia and misogyny in the press and online. Sara: We started our career as openly queer. How does it feel to be some of the industry's most recognizable openly gay musicians? It gave me confidence to keep sharing who I was. But the relief I felt - and ultimately, the support I received from some of the first people I told - made all the difference. How’d you feel about coming out to your friends and family? It’s a journey, and everyone has to trust themselves about what is the “right” time for them. But once I started engaging in a significant relationship, it didn’t feel good or fair to deny myself or my girlfriend the opportunity to be out among our friends and family. Those first few years, I wanted and needed privacy to figure things out. Sara: It had begun to feel like I was lying to everyone in my life. How’d you know when it was the right time for you to come out? It was a few months after graduation - just after I turned 18 - that I finally came out. But it wasn’t until the end of grade 12 that I remember saying the words “I’m gay” to myself. I had secret romantic relationships with girls all through high school. It was around that time that I realized the feelings I had about girls my whole life more closely resembled crushes. Where we’d been accepted by our peers, we began to be rejected, and my first response was to grow out my hair.īy grade seven, girls started to talk about boys in a very different way, describing “crush” feelings that I didn’t connect with at all. We’d always been encouraged by our family to dress how we wanted and cut our hair how we wanted, but in grade six I started to feel uncomfortable being misgendered when my hair was short. And my earliest feelings that I might be different from other girls started at the end of elementary school. Sara: My sexuality and gender expression were tightly wound. How old were you when you first realized that you were gay? That’s in addition to previously donating 100 Calm subscriptions, through our community grant program, to teens in states where anti-LGBTQ+ legislation is currently being considered. And Calm is donating $10,000 to the Tegan and Sara Foundation.
And for Pride Month this year, we partnered with meditation and wellness app Calm on #CalmingOut: Stories of Self-Acceptance. A lot of people know our songs “ Closer” and “ Walking With A Ghost,” but even more people know us as the voices of “ Everything Is Awesome” from "The Lego Movie."įive years ago, we launched the Tegan and Sara Foundation. We’ve released nine albums, and are about to launch our 10th. We started writing songs in the late ‘90s, while we were still in high school. We’re identical twins, we’re both gay, and we grew up in Canada.
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We’re musicians who also moonlight writing books, making TV shows, and telling jokes. Who are you, what do you do, and what are you excited to talk with us about this Pride Month? The following has been edited for length and clarity. So we spoke with Tegan and Sara to learn more about their coming out stories, their journeys toward self-acceptance, and their tips for prioritizing mental health in the process. But coming out can come with…a lot of emotions. Some studies show that members of the LGBTQ+ community who’ve come out to others experience lower stress levels and fewer symptoms of anxiety, depression, and burnout compared to those who don’t come out. Because ICYMI: Queer adults are more than twice as likely as heterosexual adults to experience a mental health condition (or, in the case of transgender individuals, four times as likely). And it raises awareness and funds around topics crucial to the health and wellbeing of the queer community, including LGBTQ+ mental health. The org was founded on a commitment to feminism and racial, social, and gender justice. And during that time, they also launched the Tegan and Sara Foundation with the goal of improving the lives of LGBTQ+ women and girls. The two have sold more than a million albums, been nominated for two Polaris Prizes and a Grammy, and won three Juno awards. Twin sisters and pop duo Tegan and Sara have openly identified as queer since their musical career started in 1998.
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