For Gay Pri Month, Billboard asked numero pop culture lumari to wre 'love letters' to the LGBTQ muny.
Contents:
- IMAGE DRAGONS’ DAN REYNOLDS MAK A HUGE ‘BEG GAY’ ANNOUNCEMENT
- 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 MAK A HUGE ‘BEG GAY’ ANNOUNCEMENT
"I had lots of iends growg up who were gay and had to hi om their fay." * singer imagine dragons gay *
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 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.
IMAGE DRAGONS’ DAN REYNOLDS OPENS UP ABOUT HIS LGBTQ ACTIVISM AND THE HATE HE RECEIV FOR MAKG “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. Related: Image Dragons’ Dan Reynolds slams Emem over “hateful” anti-gay lyrics.
Put all together and is easy to unrstand why the gays are so obssed wh him right now! The “Believer” sger, who was raised Mormon, prevly nfsed to regrettg the anti-gay msage he preached as a missnary.
Reynolds creded his wife for his change of heart, sayg, “She tght me what I already knew my heart, which is to be gay is betiful. People were tellg him, 'Could you sg a ltle ls gay? 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.