Neon Tree's Tyler Glenn is gay, Mormon and proud of

Contents:

• NEON TRE’ TYLER GLENN: GAY, MORMON AND FALLY OUT
• NEON TRE’ TYLER GLENN COM OUT AS GAY ROLLG STONE
• NEON TRE SGER OUT AS GAY
• TYLER GLENN AND GAY AWAKENG
• NEON TRE SGER TYLER GLENN ON RISTG SUICI, LOSG HIS RELIGN AND BEG ‘UNAPOLOGETILLY’ GAY
• NEON TREE’S TYLER GLENN IS GAY, MORMON AND PROUD OF
• 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’
• GAY MORMON ROCKER NO LONGER SGG PRAIS FOR HIS FAH
• NEON TRE' TYLER GLENN: GAY, MORMON AND FALLY OUT
• NEON TRE’ TYLER GLENN COM OUT AS GAY

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.

NEON TRE’ TYLER GLENN COM OUT AS GAY ROLLG STONE

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. 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).

NEON TRE SGER OUT AS GAY

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.

TYLER GLENN AND GAY AWAKENG

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.

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

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

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

As a Mormon, homosexualy was owned upon and shunned as taboo.

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’

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. 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.

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.

GAY MORMON ROCKER NO LONGER SGG PRAIS FOR HIS FAH

Hubs of gay culture and muny cropped up as queer people ngregated to meet people like themselv (D’E). New York was a major ont-le for the alcg of the gay inty as a port cy that received many soldiers and sailors as well as cur and eager civilians. Glenn himself went through a siar transformatn as he traveled to New York to immerse himself gay culture.

He met and nnected wh many gay people and his fame got him a role the queer-cult-classic Kky Boots. For many gay men, like Glenn, a reer also has the potential to hr one’s personal growth. Perhaps I uld feel the reprsed homosexualy wag to burst om the lyrics.

At the time, Glenn was lookg to rencile his Mormon fah wh beg gay, and durg our talk that same year he said, “I thk that there’s a time and a place to e out, and I don’t know if wag till I was 30 was the bt thg, but fely has turned out fe, and I’m a happy person.

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

” A year later, Glenn received dispirg news that left him feelg jt the oppose: The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats enacted a policy that prevents children livg wh same-sex upl om beg baptized until age 18 – also, they mt “disavow” same-sex relatnships before baptism – and proclaims members gay marriag subject to exmunitn. For me, I believed Mormonism, and I knew I was gay, and then I tried to merge the two together.

So, I feel really bond to my gayns, I feel really bond to the muny more than I ever have, and I’m really explorg that.

"For someone to see that and be triggered that that uld be wrong or bad and they need to take that and go vandalize [is] jt kd of to me a teachable moment to a lot of people that there's still this kd of, I gus for lack of a better term, hatred, " Tyler 's part of larger trend of Pri flag thefts and vandalism across the Murray neighborhood bands together for nonbary teen after triple pri flag vandalismTyler me out as gay 2014 and left the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats. "In 2014 when Glenn first me out publicly as a gay Mormon, he was equally proud of both of those inti. (RNS) KISS may have been on the ver of the April 10 issue of Rollg Stone, but the most eye-openg headle may have been the one that proclaimed: “Gay, Mormon & Fally Out.

NEON TRE’ TYLER GLENN COM OUT AS GAY

After years of nials and lyrics that obscure the issue, Glenn clared proudly that he is gay — and still a vout member of The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats. 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. ” 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?