Neon Trees singer Tyler Glenn comes out as gay

Neon Trees frontman Tyler Glenn has come out as gay.

The 30-year-old singer speaks candidly about his sexuality in the latest issue of US music magazine Rolling Stone, which goes on sale this Friday (March 28).

“I’ve always felt like I’m an open book, and yet obviously I haven’t been completely,” Glenn says in the interview, which will be published in full on RollingStone.com​ tomorrow (March 25).

“I had my crushes on guys throughout high school, but it was never an overwhelming thing until my twenties,” he goes on to explain. “Then I’d be dating girls and in love with my straight friend and it was the worst feeling in the world.”

Glenn has been a Mormon his entire life and during the interview, he also discusses the relationship between his sexuality and his religion, saying: “We were always taught, and I hate this word, ‘tolerance’. The only time that felt different was when the Prop 8 thing came up.”

Glenn has fronted Neon Trees, an alternative rock four-piece from Provo, Utah, since the band’s formation in 2005. The band released their second and most recent album, Picture Show, in 2012 and are best known for the singles Animal, a US top 20 hit in 2009, and Everybody Talks, a US top ten hit in 2011.

Watch the video for Animal below:

[youtube height=”HEIGHT” width=”WIDTH”]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM7Hlg75Mlo[/youtube]