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--are still every bit the outspoken activists they've been for most of their 13-year career.That outspokenness includes the currently front-burner issue of marriage equality.Tegan: I think everyone’s really optimistic in California and even outside of California.

Sara: I did take a small sit-down, I like to call it. Tegan: I hope this time we play maybe like an hour later.

Although marriage equality and gay rights are legal in Canada, it's not in so many states where our friends and family live.

And I’m dating an American, so I am definitely sensitive to the topic and I don’t see myself rushing out to get married while so many people that I love – and also so many millions more – don’t have these rights.

Tegan and Sara Quin have become torchbearers forpost-’00s queerdom in music.

Where the Calgary, Alberta, natives have excelled is in their readiness to take anecdotes from their personal lives and push them to the forefront, something they’ve done since signing to Neil Young’s Vapor Records in 1999.