The band's tchy new album, Pop Psychology, was soped by a bigger announcement: Its ontman, Tyler Glenn, is gay.
Contents:
- NEON TRE’ TYLER GLENN: GAY, MORMON AND FALLY OUT
- NEON TRE SGER OUT AS GAY
- NEON TRE’ TYLER GLENN COM OUT AS GAY ROLLG STONE
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). * neon trees mormon 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 SGER OUT AS 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.
"I always tried to make beg gay and beg Mormon work, " sger says of edgy "Trash" clip. Two years after the sger me out to Rollg Stone and clared himself equally proud of beg both gay and a practicg Mormon, his song “Trash” and s acpanyg vio clearly nounce the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats’ rtrictive, nservative view of same-sex relatnships.
NEON TRE’ TYLER GLENN COM OUT AS GAY ROLLG STONE
“I always tried to make beg gay and beg Mormon work, ” he says.
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).