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

Contents:

• NEON TRE’ TYLER GLENN COM OUT AS GAY ROLLG STONE
• NEON TRE SGER OUT AS GAY
• NEON TRE’ TYLER GLENN: GAY, MORMON AND FALLY OUT
• MORMON LEAD SGER OF NEON TRE OUT AS GAY
• NEON TRE SGER TYLER GLENN COM OUT AS GAY
• OPENLY GAY NEON TRE SGER SPEAKS OUT AGAST MORMON RELIGN
• NEON TRE SGER: HOW I TOLD MY DAD I'M GAY
• NEON TRE LEAD SGER TYLER GLENN COM OUT AS GAY
• TYLER GLENN ON HIS EVOLUTN AND THE RETURN OF NEON TRE: ‘COMG OUT OF THE CHURCH WAS ALMOST PERSONALLY HARR FOR ME THAN G OUT AS GAY’
• NEON TRE SGER TYLER GLENN OUT AS GAY
• NEON TRE SGER GETS SUPPORT FROM MORMON COMMUNY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• NEON TRE LEAD SGER GAY, PROUD AND MORMON
• OPENLY GAY LEAD SGER OF NEON TRE CHANGG TUNE ON MORMON RELIGN

NEON TRE’ TYLER GLENN COM OUT AS GAY ROLLG STONE

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).

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. “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. 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.

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

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.

MORMON LEAD SGER OF NEON TRE OUT AS GAY

“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. 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 hisCINCINNATI, OH - JULY 15: Tyler Glenn of Neon Tre performs durg the 2012 Bunbury Mic Ftival at Yeatman's Cove Park on July 15, 2012 Ccnati, Oh.

Cohen / TodayTyler 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 the new Hidn war agast gay teensGlenn says he's known he was gay sce he was a young child, but kept his sexualy a secret — until now. "We were always tght, and I hate this word, 'tolerance, '" he says, regardg his church's stance on homosexualy, which is notorly ght.

NEON TRE SGER TYLER GLENN COM OUT AS GAY

"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 om Rollg Stone:Artist of the week: Neon TreNeon Tre song premiere: 'Everybody Talks'Neon Tre talk about wantg to always sound like Neon Tre. ’ (Republic Rerds) The Utah-found pop-rock band Neon Tre — (om left) Chris Allen, Tyler Glenn, Elae Bradley and Brann Campbell — have released a new seasonal song, "Holiday Rock, " along wh a vio filmed at the LGBTQ+ youth group Encircle's home Salt Lake Utah-found pop-rock band Neon Tre has teamed up wh the LGBTQ+ youth group Encircle to spread some cheer — and a new song — for the band Thursday released a vio for their new sgle, “Holiday Rock” — which was filmed last month at Encircle’s home Salt Lake song is an origal, uptempo celebratn of the holiday spir, wrten by Tyler Glenn, Neon Tre’ lead sger, and Dan Book, who produced the vio picts Glenn and his bandmat — guarist Chris Allen, bassist Brann Campbell and dmmer Elae Bradley — at a crowd and ftive holiday hoe one scene the vio, Glenn, who is gay and is a former member of The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, holds up a sprig of mistletoe.

The Utah sger grew up the Mormon fah, which is agast homosexualy and actively spent approximately $22 ln to fight gay marriage California 2008.

OPENLY GAY NEON TRE SGER SPEAKS OUT AGAST MORMON RELIGN

25 Great Gay Moments Mic. 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 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. When I cid to e out as gay to my iends and fay, my dad was the only person I was sred to tell.

My dad had never been overly vol wh disda for homosexuals, nor was he ever outwardly disrpectful. In fact, I n’t remember talkg about homosexualy at home. “I’m gay.

NEON TRE SGER: HOW I TOLD MY DAD I'M GAY

He said he still loved me, “of urse, ” but didn’t unrstand how someone would e to the ncln they were gay. Tyler Glenn, the lead sger of the pop group Neon Tre, me out as gay a recent terview wh Rollg Stone. Although Glenn says he knew he was gay sce he was a child, he kept his sexualy secret for many years bee of his Mormon relign's nservative views about homosexualy.

I am a happy and healthy Mormon gay pop star. He me out as gay an terview wh Rollg Stone; had a life-changg experience starrg Broadway’s Kky Boots; and released a solo album, Exmunitn, spired by his g-out experience and subsequent cisn to leave the Mormon church which he’d been raised. I had so much belief this weird, narrow ncept that didn't even have space for me as an openly gay man, that don't have space for anybody LGBT.

I was greeted wh a lot of support, even om Mormons, and a lot of gay people and queer people that also kd of wrtled wh their fah.

NEON TRE LEAD SGER TYLER GLENN COM OUT AS GAY

” But, you know, the rhetoric doubl down every uple of years om specifilly the Mormon church agast homosexualy, and 's really stiflg. You know, I thk g out of the church was almost personally harr for me than g out as gay. I always knew I was gay, but I kd of also always thought the church was te — until I realized wasn't.

I sometim joke that I'm a “bad gay” — I know that's totally a cliché, but I didn't really know as much as I should have about the Kky Boots experience change how you approach makg mic? ’How '80s LGBTQ band Bronski Beat’s hntg ‘Smalltown Boy’ ma a difference: ‘It was very bold’The Dms’ Jonny Pierce: ‘Beg gay lerally saved my life’Image Dragons’ Dan Reynolds talks privilege, LGBTQ rights, mental health, and why ‘society is broken’Follow Lyndsey on Facebook, Twter, Instagram, Amazon, above terview is taken om a portn of Tyler Glenn’s appearance on the SiriXM show “Volume Wt.

I don't know what all means, but I'm OK wh , " he origal Neon Tre Lead Sger Tyler Glenn Com Out as Gay at TVGui. 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?

TYLER GLENN ON HIS EVOLUTN AND THE RETURN OF NEON TRE: ‘COMG OUT OF THE CHURCH WAS ALMOST PERSONALLY HARR FOR ME THAN G OUT AS 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.

NEON TRE SGER TYLER GLENN OUT AS GAY

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.

Neon Tre lead sger Tyler Glenn has e out as gay.

The sger was raised as a Mormon and still intifi as such, even though the Mormon church forbids homosexual behavr and says such relatns are agast the will of God.

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

Ellen Page rponds to anti-gay pastor. When Tyler Glenn of Neon Tre announced last month that he's gay, the bigger headle behd his revelatn was that he is one of the few publicly out Mormons.

When Tyler Glenn of Neon Tre announced last month that he’s gay, the bigger headle behd his revelatn was that he is one of the few publicly out Mormons. Glenn said he is lookg forward to speakg up about gay acceptance his relig culture and assistg young adults who face some of the hardships that he experienced.

“I was also really clear to my bandmat, we’re not a gay band all of a sudn; this don’t typest , ” he said. “I’m a gay man and ’s fe, and our shows aren’t gog to bee a gay show. Glenn said he hop members of the Mormon church will ntue to bee more unrstandg and acceptg of homosexualy and gay marriage.

NEON TRE LEAD SGER GAY, PROUD AND MORMON

“It’s terrible some of the thgs that have been said by church lears, but I also feel like there’s a lot of stris that have been ma even sce the Prop 8 bacle years ago, ” he said, referrg to the Mormon church’s opposn to California’s Proposn 8 ban on gay marriage 2008. Some gay Mormons say they are now beg weled back to the church even though they rema same-sex relatnships.

Yet church lears ntue to emphasize that the fah oppos gay marriage and that homosexualy is a s.

’ I hate gay apps.

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

NEW YORK — When Tyler Glenn of Neon Tre announced last month that he’s gay, the bigger headle behd his revelatn was that he is one of the few publicly out Mormons. SALT LAKE CITY — Two years after g out as gay and praisg the Mormon church for offerg support, the lead sger of a popular rock band is nouncg his fah his latt mic Glenn of Neon Tre, a Provo, Utah-based band, released the vio Friday for a sgle tled "Trash, " which he appears to be trashg the church.

The l also said children of those upl mt disavow homosexual relatnships and nnot be baptized until they are of few publicly out Mormons, Glenn told The Associated Prs 2014 that he was lookg forward to speakg about gay acceptance his relig culture. The band’s fourth album, “I Can Feel You Fettg Me, ” was released 2014, Glenn announced, Rollg Stone magaze, that he is gay. He later left the Latter-day Sat fah — and 2016 released a solo album, “Exmunitn, ” which he exprsed his tratn wh the church’s stanc agast homosexualy and same-sex his posts Monday, Glenn thanked his mom for stayg by his si durg his hospal stay.