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Contents:

• 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
• OPENLY GAY NEON TRE SGER SPEAKS OUT AGAST MORMON RELIGN
• OPENLY GAY NEON TRE SGER SPEAKS OUT AGAST MORMON RELIGN
• NEON TRE SGER TYLER GLENN COM OUT AS GAY
• NEON TRE SGER TYLER GLENN ON RISTG SUICI, LOSG HIS RELIGN AND BEG ‘UNAPOLOGETILLY’ GAY
• MORMON LEAD SGER OF NEON TRE OUT AS GAY
• NEON TRE SGER GETS SUPPORT FROM MORMON COMMUNY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• NEON TRE SGER: HOW I TOLD MY DAD I'M GAY
• OPENLY GAY LEAD SGER OF NEON TRE CHANGG TUNE ON MORMON RELIGN

NEON TRE SGER OUT AS GAY

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).

NEON TRE’ TYLER GLENN COM OUT AS GAY ROLLG STONE

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. 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.

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.

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’ TYLER GLENN: GAY, MORMON AND FALLY OUT

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. “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. 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.

OPENLY GAY NEON TRE SGER SPEAKS OUT AGAST MORMON RELIGN

“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.

OPENLY GAY NEON TRE SGER SPEAKS OUT AGAST MORMON RELIGN

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.

NEON TRE SGER TYLER GLENN COM OUT AS GAY

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

“I always tried to make beg gay and beg Mormon work, ” he says.

Two years after g out as gay and praisg the Mormon church for offerg support, Tyler Glenn of Neon Tre is nouncg his fah his latt mic vio.

Neon Tre Sger Tyler Glenn Com Out As Gay. The l also said children of those upl mt disavow homosexual relatnships and nnot be baptized until they are 18. One of few publicly out Mormons, Glenn told The Associated Prs 2014 that he was lookg forward to speakg about gay acceptance his relig culture.

MORMON LEAD SGER OF NEON TRE OUT AS GAY

Sger Tyler Glenn, dmmer Elae Brady, guarist Chris Allen and bassist Brann Campbell are all members of The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats — a fact that has domated discsn about the band sce Glenn me out as gay March. Like, I thk I've fely received posivy, but are also those ments: "How n you say you're Mormon and also gay? Hontly, growg up and beg actively Mormon, I was never told anythg about homosexualy beg wrong.

So I try to get that pot across bee 's sry for me as a sgle, 30-year-old, now-out gay man, g technology. Beg a closeted gay man my 20s and g those apps, a lot of is hookup based, and that's not somethg I'm always about. SIMON: Some people may still fd hard to hold their heads the ia of a high-energy rock band filled wh Mormons, whose lead sger is openly gay.

NEON TRE SGER GETS SUPPORT FROM MORMON COMMUNY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

BRADLEY: I thk what people expect is the polarizg effect: Eher you n be gay or you n be relig — you're not allowed to be both. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two years after g out as gay and praisg the Mormon church for offerg support, Tyler Glenn of Neon Tre is nouncg his fah his latt mic vio. )It was also not a good place for Glenn, now 30, to e out as a gay Mormon, which he did this sprg his adopted state of Utah.

The veteran TV host me out, very publicly, a 1997 Time magaze ver story that bore the matter-of-fact headle: “Yep, I’m Gay. I have gay iends and fay, and I don’t treat them or feel any different about them than I do anyone else. Glenn is still a Mormon, which is no easy task for a gay man or Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, as the Mormon church is officially known, tegoriz homosexualy alongsi murr and rape as a “ser transgrsn.

“Not that I’m gay, but I was Mormon, and (the church’s posn on gays) was a thg that ma me qutn . ”Glenn didn’t flch when asked about the possible ntradictns of beg a gay Mormon. The Utah sger grew up the Mormon fah, which is agast homosexualy and actively spent approximately $22 ln to fight gay marriage California 2008.

NEON TRE SGER: HOW I TOLD MY DAD I'M GAY

25 Great Gay Moments Mic. 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.

” 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.

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).

OPENLY GAY LEAD SGER OF NEON TRE CHANGG TUNE ON MORMON RELIGN

But he is now: Glenn speaks ndidly about his first gay experienc, his band's reactn to hisCINCINNATI, OH - JULY 15: Tyler Glenn of Neon Tre performs durg the 2012 Bunbury Mic Ftival at Yeatman's Cove Park on July 15, 2012 Ccnati, Oh.