The Image Dragons ontman discsed workg wh Jt Tranter on “Believer,†the band’s third stud album 'Evolve' and lnchg the Love Loud ftival to bat bigotry and teach acceptance to relig fai: “to be gay is betiful and right and perfect.
Contents:
- IMAGE DRAGONS’ DAN REYNOLDS OPENS UP ABOUT HIS LGBTQ ACTIVISM AND THE HATE HE RECEIV FOR MAKG “SO MANY KIDS GAY”
- IMAGE DRAGONS’ DAN REYNOLDS TALKS NEW ALBUM ‘EVOLVE’ & BIGOTRY MORMONISM: ‘TO BE GAY IS BETIFUL AND RIGHT AND PERFECT’
- IMAGE DRAGONS STAR DAN REYNOLDS NO LONGER NFED ABOUT GAY RIGHTS
IMAGE DRAGONS’ DAN REYNOLDS OPENS UP ABOUT HIS LGBTQ ACTIVISM AND THE HATE HE RECEIV FOR MAKG “SO MANY KIDS GAY”
* imagine dragons gay pride *
"Reynolds grew up Mormon, and he's long been open about his journey to rencile the church's anti-gay doctre wh his own support for gay rights. But durg his acceptance speech at the 2017 TrevorLIVE event, Reynolds took the opportuny to share his story of gog on his Mormon missn trip, where he tght people for two years that beg gay was a s. He lled out Emem for his homophobic lyrics on Kamikaze.
People tell me they won’t allow their kids to go to my ncerts anymore; that when I get to heaven, God’s gog to be upset wh me bee I ma so many kids gay. The Mormon Church is famoly associated wh s support of Proposn 8, which outlawed gay marriage California 2008. The church recently released a seri of official vios unr the headle Mormon and Gay that tells the real-life stori of LGBTQ Mormons and monstrat that ’s okay: You n feel gay and be Mormon.
The church is basilly sayg: You n be gay, but you n’t be out. Speakg to the crowd of over 35, 000, Cook’s troductn began, “I stand before you tonight as an uncle, a sports nut, a CEO, a lover of the betiful Utah outdoors, and a proud, gay Amerin! People were tellg him, 'Could you sg a ltle ls gay?
IMAGE DRAGONS’ DAN REYNOLDS TALKS NEW ALBUM ‘EVOLVE’ & BIGOTRY MORMONISM: ‘TO BE GAY IS BETIFUL AND RIGHT AND PERFECT’
Image Dragons ontman Dan Reynolds ma a powerful statement at the 2019 Billboard Mic Awards last month when he offered a ll to actn agast “gay nversn” therapy. Homophobia has “affected not jt my clost iends growg up, but also my fay, ” Image Dragons ontman Dan Reynolds told HuffPost.
Notg that homophobia has “affected not jt my clost iends growg up, but also my fay, ” he shgs off those who suggt he’s panrg.
IMAGE DRAGONS STAR DAN REYNOLDS NO LONGER NFED ABOUT GAY RIGHTS
Put all together and is easy to unrstand why the gays are so obssed wh him right now! “People tell me they won’t allow their kids to go to my ncerts anymore; that when I get to heaven, God’s gog to be upset wh me bee I ma so many kids gay.
Reynolds acknowledged that his activism probably wasn’t gog to change the Mormon Church’s views on homosexualy, somethg that he was massively cril of, but he felt that he had a “rponsibily to speak to all the kids who listen to Image Dragons, and there are so many of them, all the fai e to our shows, and to slowly jt speak this tth of me.