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The band's tchy new album, Pop Psychology, was soped by a bigger announcement: Its ontman, Tyler Glenn, is gay.

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NEON TRE’ TYLER GLENN: GAY, MORMON AND FALLY 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). * tyler glenn gay *

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.

NEON TRE’ TYLER GLENN COM OUT AS GAY ROLLG STONE

(RNS) After years of nials and lyrics that obscure the issue, Neon Tre' ontman Tyler Glenn clared proudly that he is gay -- and still a vout member of The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats. * tyler glenn gay *

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. “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.

NEON TRE SGER OUT AS GAY

Neon Tre ontman Tyler Glenn Medat on Solo Album, Comg Out Gay as a Mormon, and Fdg Peace * tyler glenn 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 28th).

TYLER GLENN AND GAY AWAKENG

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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.

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.

NEON TRE SGER TYLER GLENN ON RISTG SUICI, LOSG HIS RELIGN AND BEG ‘UNAPOLOGETILLY’ GAY

The Neon Tre ont man spoke wh The Advote about his new album, which tackl his experience of leavg the Mormon Church as a gay man. * tyler glenn 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 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.

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

Tyler Glenn (Neon Tre) explor his life as a gay Mormon alternative pop star, his stggl to rencile fah and sexualy, and the shatterg of his LDS fah * tyler glenn 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 his g out and his plited relatnship wh his nservative relign.

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’

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

However, this band of Mormons was shaken up 2014 by the g out of their ont man, Tyler Glenn, as gay.

GAY MORMON ROCKER NO LONGER SGG PRAIS FOR HIS FAH

As a Mormon, homosexualy was owned upon and shunned as taboo. In that time, he released a solo album about his ternal nflict and, for the first time, was able to exprs his homosexual feelgs song.

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

He then spent six months starrg a New York productn of Kky Boots where he nnected wh his gay inty and rtored his passn for sgg and mic. Right of the bat the album starts wh “Nights, ” a song about gay love and, more specifilly, the toxic relatnship Glenn left New York.

NEON TRE’ TYLER GLENN COM OUT AS GAY

In “Skeleton Boy, ” Glenn clearly sgs as if a piece of him is missg, “I’m a skeleton boy strip me down to the bone and then leave me alone // now I’m a skeleton boy, a relic om a former love, ” but his tone he sounds happy that he has experienced beg gay, wh all the good and the bad that me wh . Acrdg to John D’E, gay men have more time to explore a personal life tached om their livelihood bee of the enomic eedom men general received sce the dtrial revolutn.

The creatn of the gay inty, therefore, rose wh the velopment of palism.

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