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).
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
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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 SGER OUT AS GAY
Now Glenn se an opportuny to rhape the ia of a gay rock star.
NEON TRE’ TYLER GLENN COM OUT AS GAY ROLLG STONE
“I’ve gotten tired of kd-of gay or straight people beg pop culture’s gay [spokpeople] – like Macklemore, ” he says.