Neon Trees' Tyler Glenn: Since coming out as a gay Mormon I'm truly happy

Tyler Glenn

The year is 2002 and I am 18 years old. It’s the summer after my high school graduation. I’m in my room, which is located in the 3rd port of the three-car garage in the house I grew up in, and I have my bright yellow fast food uniform on as I have just gotten home from the grease-stained doldrums that is working a fast-food job. I’m on my knees, arms folded on my bed and my head low, tears rolling down my face. I am praying to who I think is God, but at this point I think I’m just praying to anyone that will listen. Maybe it’s my walls that are hearing me? Maybe the dozen or so posters of rock-star idols on my walls: Bruce Springsteen, Joe Strummer, Gwen Stefani or Beck, maybe they can hear me? Or maybe, hopefully, my mom is in the garage and can hear me talking, so she will finally understand why I’m depressed and why I barely graduated high school and why I don’t know where to go now that I’m 18 and have to face my future.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/aug/15/neon-trees-tyler-glenn-since-coming-out-as-gay-mormon-truly-happy