{"id":479481,"date":"2018-12-08T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/throwback-the-time-that-pvris-lynn-gunn-interviewed-tegan-from-tegan-and-sara\/"},"modified":"2018-12-08T06:10:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T13:10:00","slug":"throwback-the-time-that-pvris-lynn-gunn-interviewed-tegan-from-tegan-and-sara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/throwback-the-time-that-pvris-lynn-gunn-interviewed-tegan-from-tegan-and-sara\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback: The Time That PVRIS\u2019 Lynn Gunn Interviewed Tegan From Tegan And Sara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They spoke about LGBTQ+ representation, being openly gay in the music industry and more.<\/p>\n<p>Lynn Gunn is your Rock Sound Icon! Pick up your commemorative Lynn Gunn Rock Sound Awards cover now from AWARDS.ROCKSOUND.TV<\/p>\n<p>In celebration of her Rock Sound Icon Award, we&#8217;re looking back at some of her truly iconic moments.<\/p>\n<p>Today we&#8217;re looking back at the time that PVRIS&#8217; Lynn Gunn and Tegan Quin from Tegan And Sara interviewed each other.<br \/>\nThey discussed their experiences of being part of the LGBTQ+ community and the music industry, plus their respective careers.<br \/>\nWhen asked about coming out as gay, Lynn said:&#8221;I came out to my family when I was 18. I don&#8217;t remember there ever being a conversation amongst the band or management regarding me being &#8216;out,&#8217; but I do remember a big debate in my head that existed for a little while before things with PVRIS fully set sail.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I never wanted to compromise in fear of others&#8217; approval, and I recognize the importance of being &#8216;out&#8217; as far as representation and visibility. [But] the debate existed from a different angle [for me]\u2026&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I wanted to be &#8216;out,&#8217; but I wanted it to be the last thing people paid attention to. I didn&#8217;t want to be known as a gay woman playing music; I just wanted to be a musician who also just happened to be gay.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Initially, when people began to ask me about it, I felt uneasy. Not because I didn&#8217;t feel comfortable speaking about my sexuality, but because I always questioned the intentions of the interviewers and the intent behind the questions being asked.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;However, now more than ever, representation and visibility is absolutely crucial in my opinion, so I feel more than happy to talk about it. As for how I identify, I absolutely love women and have yet to feel the same way <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/pvriss-lynn-gunn-has-interviewed-tegan-and-sara\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Via:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/pvriss-lynn-gunn-has-interviewed-tegan-and-sara\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Throwback: The Time That PVRIS\u2019 Lynn Gunn Interviewed Tegan From Tegan And Sara\">Rock Sound<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They spoke about LGBTQ+ representation, being openly gay in the music industry and more.<\/p>\n<p>Lynn Gunn is your Rock Sound Icon! Pick up your commemorative Lynn Gunn Rock Sound Awards cover now from AWARDS.ROCKSOUND.TV<\/p>\n<p>In celebration of her Rock Sound Icon Award, we&#8217;re looking back at some of her truly iconic moments.<\/p>\n<p>Today we&#8217;re looking back at the time that PVRIS&#8217; Lynn Gunn and Tegan Quin from Tegan And Sara interviewed each other.<br \/>\nThey discussed their experiences of being part of the LGBTQ+ community and the music industry, plus their respective careers.<br \/>\nWhen asked about coming out as gay, Lynn said:&#8221;I came out to my family when I was 18. I don&#8217;t remember there ever being a conversation amongst the band or management regarding me being &#8216;out,&#8217; but I do remember a big debate in my head that existed for a little while before things with PVRIS fully set sail.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I never wanted to compromise in fear of others&#8217; approval, and I recognize the importance of being &#8216;out&#8217; as far as representation and visibility. [But] the debate existed from a different angle [for me]\u2026&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I wanted to be &#8216;out,&#8217; but I wanted it to be the last thing people paid attention to. I didn&#8217;t want to be known as a gay woman playing music; I just wanted to be a musician who also just happened to be gay.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Initially, when people began to ask me about it, I felt uneasy. Not because I didn&#8217;t feel comfortable speaking about my sexuality, but because I always questioned the intentions of the interviewers and the intent behind the questions being asked.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;However, now more than ever, representation and visibility is absolutely crucial in my opinion, so I feel more than happy to talk about it. As for how I identify, I absolutely love women and have yet to feel the same way <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/pvriss-lynn-gunn-has-interviewed-tegan-and-sara\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-479481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 05:56:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}