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LGBTQ&A

Tyler Glenn: 15 Years of Neon Trees

LGBTQ&A

Jeffrey Masters

Society & Culture

4.7703 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Neon Trees frontman, Tyler Glenn talks about coming out, why the Mormon Church isn't a safe space for queer people, his solo alum, Excommunication, and the new Neon Trees album, I Can Feel You Forgetting Me (available now). LGBTQ&A is hosted by Jeffrey Masters and produced by The Advocate magazine, in partnership with GLAAD. Come find us on Twitter to recommend a guest, @lgbtqpod.

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It started with a whisper, and that was when I kissed her,

0:06.0

and then she made my lips, her.

0:09.0

I hear the chit-cha.

0:11.0

And that was Neon Trees, singing their smash hit, Everybody Talks.

0:15.0

They're also known for the song Animal.

0:17.0

What are you waiting for? Say goodbye to my heart tonight. And of course the song Sleeping With a Friend.

0:27.6

Sleeping with a friend is one of my all-time favorite Neon Tree songs, but not because

0:42.7

that is something I have any experience with.

0:45.6

No further questions.

0:46.8

Thank you.

0:47.7

Okay, but in all seriousness, since releasing their first studio album about 10 years ago,

0:53.3

Tyler Glenn, the lead singer of Neon Trees,

0:55.9

has really gone through a public transformation. And maybe that's too strong of an assessment

1:01.9

from me, but Neon Trees came to public fame as a band of musicians who were all Mormon. That was a huge

1:09.3

part of their identity. And since then, Tyler has come out

1:13.2

of the closet, and also more recently, he's left the Mormon church. Leaving it, he says, was even

1:19.0

harder than coming out. As you will hear Tyler described today, now his life looks wildly

1:24.7

different than it did just 10 years ago. And I think you will find that

1:29.1

he is incredibly generous in sharing what that has been like and sharing the fact that he doesn't

1:35.5

have it all figured out yet. He is still figuring out what he wants, what he wants his life to

1:41.3

look like. And that is something I think we need to hear more of

1:45.2

from public figures. So thank you to Tyler for that. And lastly, of course, we also talk about

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