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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 STAR DAN REYNOLDS NO LONGER NFED ABOUT GAY RIGHTS
- IMAGE DRAGONS’ DAN REYNOLDS TALKS NEW ALBUM ‘EVOLVE’ & BIGOTRY MORMONISM: ‘TO BE GAY IS BETIFUL AND RIGHT AND PERFECT’
IMAGE DRAGONS’ DAN REYNOLDS MAK A HUGE ‘BEG GAY’ ANNOUNCEMENT
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"Reynolds grew up Mormon, and he's long been open about his journey to rencile the church's anti-gay doctre wh his own support for gay rights. 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!
Put all together and is easy to unrstand why the gays are so obssed wh him right now! “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”
For Gay Pri Month, Billboard asked numero pop culture lumari to wre 'love letters' to the LGBTQ muny. * imagine dragons bassist 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.
IMAGE DRAGONS STAR DAN REYNOLDS NO LONGER NFED ABOUT GAY RIGHTS
Image Dragons star Dan Reynolds embraced homosexualy and bisexualy after spendg years as a "nfed Mormon". In a "love letter" to the LGBTQ muny to mark Billboard's Gay Pri Month celebratns, the Believer sger sists he tly lov and appreciat his gay fans after wrtlg wh his relig beliefs for years. "As I got olr and found the urage and agency to follow my own heart and md, I let myself follow and speak MY tth that I've known sce I was old enough to unrstand love: that beg gay is perfect and fact betiful, as is all love.
For Gay Pri Month, Billboard asked numero pop culture lumari to wre 'love letters' to the LGBTQ muny. For Gay Pri Month, Billboard asked numero pop culture lumari to wre “love letters” to the LGBTQ muny.
As I got olr and found the urage and agency to follow my own heart and md, I let myself follow and speak MY tth that I’ve known sce I was old enough to unrstand love: that beg gay is perfect and fact betiful, as is all love.
IMAGE DRAGONS’ DAN REYNOLDS TALKS NEW ALBUM ‘EVOLVE’ & BIGOTRY MORMONISM: ‘TO BE GAY IS BETIFUL AND RIGHT AND PERFECT’
But durg his acceptance speech at the 2017 TrevorLIVE event, Reynolds took the opportuny to share his story of gog on his Mormon missn trip, where he tght people for two years that beg gay was a s. He lled out Emem for his homophobic lyrics on Kamikaze. After Glee featured Image Dragons’ “It’s Time” 2012 durg an episo which gay character Blae sgs to his boyiend Kurt, the band’s ontman Dan Reynolds started receivg letters om gay fans.
In this Q&A wh Billboard, Reynolds discsed workg wh BMI’s 2017 Pop Songwrer of the Year Jt Tranter on Image Dragons’ Hot 100 h “Believer, ” wrg about love on the band’s third stud album Evolve (out now) and lnchg the Love Loud ftival to bat bigotry and teach acceptance to relig fai bee “to be gay is betiful and right and perfect.
Glee had a huge impact on the band bee helped our first song take off and had a huge impact on a lot of people, pecially wh the gay muny. One of the reasons I’ve felt such a need to speak out on this is I’ve gotten untls emails and letters om fans around the world who said, “I’m gay, but I know you’re Mormon so that probably means you don’t accept my liftyle, but I love ‘It’s Time’ and your mic.