Hey, I’m Just Like You is released on 27 September. “I try and reach out to other LGBT+ artists, too, to see if they need support. “There’s online community now,” Tegan say. The foundation is one way that Tegan and Sarah advocate for the LGBT+ community – another way in which they try and help comes back to the twins feeling a lack of support in their early days of being famous, and prominently gay, women. I don’t necessarily believe in my heart that they’re going to take away rights like marriage equality, but they are trying to limit rights and that is really scary.” “As we’ve gotten older, got more political, we started our foundation and started fundraising and speaking out. “Marriage equality in America really ignited our activism and we really started to pay attention,” Tegan says. Tegan and Sara are active politically and socially engaged. Tegan lives in Vancouver and Sara lives in North Vancouver, BC. In August 2022, Sara welcomed her first child. Tegan and Sara first became politically engaged during the (failed) campaign to save gay marriage in California, known as Prop 8. Tegan and Sara are identical twins born September 19, 1980, in Calgary. “They are trying to limit rights and that’s really scary.” “And there are also hundreds of religious attempts to roll back protections for LGBT+ youth, trans people, queer people of colour,” Tegan says. “We were 16, 17 when we started talking to the media, and a lot of the journalists were men, so us being gay was something that was really awkward for them to bring up – because talking about sexuality felt like talking about sex.” “It just didn’t happen naturally,” she explains. “But then, for the first three or four years it rarely came up and we got a lot of flack from the LGBT+ community for not talking about being gay in the press.” “We felt so visibly gay that we just embraced it,” she says. Tegan tells PinkNews that right from the beginning, she and Sara never hid their sexuality, but that she remembers those early days as a “pretty lonely and tough” era. Tegan (right) and Sara perform in the semi-final of Garage Warz, a music competition in Calgary, in 1998. It wasn’t long afterwards that Tegan and Sara released their debut album, Under Feet Like Ours, and began their journey from bedroom grunge band to mainstream success. About half of the songs on Hey, I’m Just Like You are original melodies – “enduring and raw”, Tegan says – that the pair wrote in the 90, on electric guitar.
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