How old is tyler from neon trees

And of course then I wanted to tell the person next to me on the plane. P ushing a tiny cart loaded with avocados through an organic supermarket alongside his friend Adam, a local musician with a swoosh of pink hair and red tartan-plaid pants, Glenn has a hard time containing himself. Now Glenn sees an opportunity to reshape the idea of a gay rock star. The Mormon church has certainly been slow on the social-justice tip.

Provo hosted its first-ever pride march last September. A boisterous woman with a streak of magenta piercing her short blond hairdo, she says she thought Glenn was joking when he came out to her, then gets weepy. Latter-day Saint. But I think I need to finally break away from that and be an adult. The band is comfortable enough to joke about dildos and sugar daddies during rehearsals. Tyler Glenn of Neon Trees. Michael Friberg. Newswire Powered by. Close the menu.

Rolling Stone. Log In. Tyler Glenn: Yeah, I went in [the studio] making what I thought would be a mainstream pop record! Where do I put all of my faith expression, and also embrace my sexuality? I think doing that, though, made me realize I can make a record without a ceiling.

I can be free to do what I want in a record. I think sometimes with Neon Trees records, I had a bit of a fear threshold where I was maybe afraid to go fully out in a theme. So, I would disguise it in certain ways. I just think for me, I feel freer and freer every time I make a new body of work. I also feel really supported by my band on this record to go ahead and talk about themes that maybe I wouldn't have before, or that maybe before would have made them uncomfortable.

So when you first publicly came out in Rolling Stone , from what I recall, you had an intention at that time to live life as an out man — but also still be Mormon. But after listening to Excommunication , I'm going to make a guess that that plan didn't work out. Do you still identify or culturally or religiously as a Mormon?

Where do you stand right now? I don't at all affiliate… when I talk to certain members of the faith, there's a language that Mormons speak, culturally , so there are things that I like identify with because it's part of my whole youth and twenties, that worldview. But I can talk to you plainly: I don't believe it's true. And I think that set me free.

I had so much belief in this weird, narrow concept that didn't even have space for me as an openly gay man, that doesn't have space for anybody LGBT. And so I have found complete freedom and joy in the last three-ish years, leaving that behind. I don't know if that's the suggestion for everybody; I'm not everybody. But yeah, it's been a wonderful thing to leave that behind. You came out relatively late in life, at 30 years old. What was it that made you want to take that leap, both personally and in the public eye as well?

I always felt like I was hiding messages — hiding in plain view, probably. I was also personally just going a little nuts, honestly. I was compartmentalizing. I had led all of my twenties in the closet, and it was just catching up with me.

I was deeply unhappy on tour. I was living my dream — that was the height of our career, and I still had no genuine bliss. I knew the reason was I wasn't living my truth. I was greeted with a lot of support, even from Mormons, and a lot of gay people and queer people that also kind of wrestled with their faith.

I just saw through it, finally. You know, I think coming out of the church was almost personally harder for me than coming out as gay. I always knew I was gay, but I kind of also always thought the church was true — until I realized it wasn't. So for me, it was a bigger spiritual war inside of me, a bigger faith crisis inside of me, to come out and leave the church behind. How did they feel about your decision to come out?

Did you discuss it with them before you went public? I won't speak for them, but I know over the years they've affirmed that they saw I was floundering, that I was struggling. I didn't come out personally to them until right before I took a meeting with Rolling Stone to make it a feature, you know?

I just wanted to just get it over with. I used to subscribe to the idea that you didn't have to come out. It just was really, really, really stifling my growth as a person. Now that you're back together doing a record, I assume they're cool with the fact that you've left the church and that you are living your truth.

But was there any friction with them when you initially came out? There was, yeah. I can look back at how I did it — and I've wrestled with this. I didn't necessarily consider how they would feel when I made a record [ Excommunication ] discussing themes that they still held dear. And I'm not going to speak for all three of them; they're all at varying degrees of their faith as well.

But I do think they all really support my decision. Some of them maybe wish differently, but that's probably just coming from what they can see as caring. And I totally appreciate that now. But we've found a way to get along. Salt Lake City rock star Tyler Glenn, lead singer and songwriter for the band Neon Trees , has been hospitalized after suffering a stroke last week, the musician wrote on his social media accounts.

I suffered a stroke last week. Appreciate all the love and support. Friday, Glenn visited an ophthalmologist, who told the musician he had a retinal edema in a small artery in his right eye.

The eye doctor told Glenn that he had a stroke and should go to the hospital immediately.