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"I don't think stories about women, especially young women, get taken very seriously very often," Tegan Quin told Build Series host Noah Michelson."Young people are often patronized and oversimplified. We were not simple people, not even when we were teenagers." But before they got to that point, there was a time of drug experimentation, which they felt was just as important to include.
At the root of that, they say, was a lot of the homophobia they had internalized growing up — so much that they took some time to come out to each other. It wasn't until they found music that they were able to stop self-medicating and start being more open.