Neon Tre Sger Gets Support From Mormon Communy After Comg Out As Gay – Billboard

Contents:

• NEON TRE’ TYLER GLENN: GAY, MORMON AND FALLY OUT
• NEON TRE’ TYLER GLENN COM OUT AS GAY ROLLG STONE
• NEON TRE' TYLER GLENN: 'I AM A HAPPY, MORMON, GAY POP STAR'
• OPENLY GAY NEON TRE SGER SPEAKS OUT AGAST MORMON RELIGN
• NEON TRE SGER OUT AS GAY
• NEON TRE’ TYLER GLENN TALKS ABOUT REALI OF BEG GAY AND MORMON
• OPENLY GAY NEON TRE SGER SPEAKS OUT AGAST MORMON RELIGN
• MORMON LEAD SGER OF NEON TRE OUT AS GAY
• NEON TREE’S TYLER GLENN IS GAY, MORMON AND PROUD OF
• NEON TRE' TYLER GLENN: SCE G OUT AS A GAY MORMON I'M TLY HAPPY
• OPENLY GAY LEAD SGER OF NEON TRE CHANGG TUNE ON MORMON RELIGN
• NEON TRE SGER GETS SUPPORT FROM MORMON COMMUNY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• GAY MORMON ROCKER NO LONGER SGG PRAIS FOR HIS FAH
• NEON TRE’ TYLER GLENN – A GAY MORMON

NEON TRE’ TYLER GLENN: GAY, MORMON AND FALLY OUT

In five weeks, Provo – an 88 percent Mormon town, which rock clubs don’t sell alhol, only soda – will get the news, along wh the rt of the world, that Glenn has been quietly sharg wh iends and fay for a uple of months: He’s gay, has known he’s gay sce he was six years old and has been livg a closeted life for s that choked his spir and threatened his sany. The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats officially lls gay sex a “ser transgrsn” – the same tegory which puts rape, murr and theft – and spent an timated $22 ln fightg LGBT rights California the battle over Proposn 8. “I don’t know what the mors are, but we’re not tght that ‘homos are gog to hell’ on Sunday church, ” he says.

A month after he moved back home, he fally gave to his urg and went on his first gay date, nervoly meetg the onle hookup at a so, where they had shi. He lled a recent red-rpet look “‘gay Brooks and Dunn’ realns” on Instagram. “I also want the world to know I’m not gay jt bee I wear a glter su.

Now Glenn se an opportuny to rhape the ia of a gay rock star. “I’ve gotten tired of kd-of gay or straight people beg pop culture’s gay [spokpeople] – like Macklemore, ” he says.

NEON TRE’ TYLER GLENN COM OUT AS GAY ROLLG STONE

“It mak me wonr, ‘Are we ready for an actual gay pop star and not jt the safe straight guy sayg ’s OK? “I thk the only anxiety for me om people assumg thgs bee I’m relig or assumg thgs bee he’s gay. "I always tried to make beg gay and beg Mormon work, " sger says of edgy "Trash" clip.

NEON TRE' TYLER GLENN: 'I AM A HAPPY, MORMON, GAY POP STAR'

Two years after the sger me out to Rollg Stone and clared himself equally proud of beg both gay and a practicg Mormon, his song “Trash” and s acpanyg vio clearly nounce the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats’ rtrictive, nservative view of same-sex relatnships.

“I always tried to make beg gay and beg Mormon work, ” he says.

Tyler Glenn — lead sger for Provo, Utah New Wave-pop quartet Neon Tre and a Mormon his entire life — reveals he is gay the new issue of Rollg Stone (on stands Friday, March 28th).

OPENLY GAY NEON TRE SGER SPEAKS OUT AGAST MORMON RELIGN

But he is now: Glenn speaks ndidly about his first gay experienc, his band’s reactn to his g out and his plited relatnship wh his nservative relign our new story. Gay, Mormon & Fally Out: read our full Neon Tre feature.

NEON TRE SGER OUT AS GAY

Glenn says he’s known he was gay sce he was a young child, but kept his sexualy a secret — until now.

NEON TRE’ TYLER GLENN TALKS ABOUT REALI OF BEG GAY AND MORMON

“We were always tght, and I hate this word, ‘tolerance, '” he says, regardg his church’s stance on homosexualy, which is notorly ght.

The Hidn War Agast Gay Teens.

Read the full story for reactn om Glenn’s Neon Tre bandmat and his mother, pl Glenn’s take on straight artists actg as the gay muny’s spokpeople and his explanatn of the events that led to his big g out.

OPENLY GAY NEON TRE SGER SPEAKS OUT AGAST MORMON RELIGN

Neon Tre ontman Tyler Glenn Medat on Solo Album, Comg Out Gay as a Mormon, and Fdg Peace. Openly Gay Neon Tre Sger Speaks Out Agast Mormon Relign.

Comg out as gay two years ago had been difficult — homosexualy is not accepted The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats (LDS) — but hadn’t severed his ­mment to the fah.

MORMON LEAD SGER OF NEON TRE OUT AS GAY

Instead, says Glenn, “I felt like I had this rponsibily to be the poster child for how to make beg gay work wh the fah.

NEON TREE’S TYLER GLENN IS GAY, MORMON AND PROUD OF

To prove that I uld be gay but still be Mormon. Thgs took a paful turn November 2015 when LDS implemented a new policy barrg the baptisms of children om gay parents until the age of 18.

NEON TRE' TYLER GLENN: SCE G OUT AS A GAY MORMON I'M TLY HAPPY

Sger Tyler Glenn, dmmer Elae Brady, guarist Chris Allen and bassist Brann Campbell are all members of The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats — a fact that has domated discsn about the band sce Glenn me out as gay March. Like, I thk I've fely received posivy, but are also those ments: "How n you say you're Mormon and also gay?

Hontly, growg up and beg actively Mormon, I was never told anythg about homosexualy beg wrong.

So I try to get that pot across bee 's sry for me as a sgle, 30-year-old, now-out gay man, g technology.

OPENLY GAY LEAD SGER OF NEON TRE CHANGG TUNE ON MORMON RELIGN

Beg a closeted gay man my 20s and g those apps, a lot of is hookup based, and that's not somethg I'm always about. SIMON: Some people may still fd hard to hold their heads the ia of a high-energy rock band filled wh Mormons, whose lead sger is openly gay. BRADLEY: I thk what people expect is the polarizg effect: Eher you n be gay or you n be relig — you're not allowed to be both.

Lead sger of Neon Tre and life-long Mormon Tyler Glenn has revealed that he is gay. I am a happy and healthy Mormon gay pop star, " he wrote on Twter.

"Published the latt issue of Rollg Stone, the star scribed how he me to terms wh beg gay. "Speakg about his relign's notorly opposed stance on homosexualy, the sger said: "We were always tght, and I hate this word, 'tolerance', " he says, before scribg how his feelgs were triggered by events surroundg Prop 8, a se which volved the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats spendg approximately $22m on fightg same-sex marriage. Two years after g out as gay and praisg the Mormon church for offerg support, Tyler Glenn of Neon Tre is nouncg his fah his latt mic vio.

NEON TRE SGER GETS SUPPORT FROM MORMON COMMUNY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

Neon Tre Sger Tyler Glenn Com Out As Gay. The l also said children of those upl mt disavow homosexual relatnships and nnot be baptized until they are 18.

One of few publicly out Mormons, Glenn told The Associated Prs 2014 that he was lookg forward to speakg about gay acceptance his relig culture.

Neon Tre ontman Tyler Glenn reveals he's gay the new issue of Rollg Stone. Glenn speaks ndidly about his first gay experienc and his band's reactn to his g out.

GAY MORMON ROCKER NO LONGER SGG PRAIS FOR HIS FAH

Tyler Glenn — lead sger for Provo, Utah New Wave-pop quartet Neon Tre and a Mormon his entire life — reveals he is gay the new issue of Rollg Stone (on stands Friday, March 28). But he is now: Glenn speaks ndidly about his first gay experienc, his band’s reactn to his g out and his plited relatnship wh his nservative relign.

NEON TRE’ TYLER GLENN – A GAY MORMON

“We were always tght, and I hate this word, ‘tolerance, ’” he says, regardg his church’s stance on homosexualy, which is notorly ght. In jt days, a Rollg Stone story about him would h the stands, alertg the world to his secret: This vout Mormon pop star, who had once gone on a two-year missn to spread the word of God’s love, was gay — a state of beg his relign had worked tirelsly and publicly to supprs.

Glenn, 30, has known he’s gay sce childhood, but the only exposure he had to anythg homosexualy-related the Mormon muny was when he heard bulli ll their victims, cludg him, “fags. It was around the end of this time, he says, that the Mormon church began promently supportg California’s Proposn 8, which outlawed gay marriage.