Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds said that examples of the “divide between my religion and the LGBTQ community” had grown too personal for him to any longer shrug it off as not his problem.
He noted that his wedding ceremony, which took place in his parents’ backyard, was missing his wife’s two best friends and roommates, a lesbian couple who refused to attend knowing he was a practicing Mormon, as it took place when The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was supporting California’s Prop 8 to deny marriage rights to same-sex couples.
The former Brigham Young University student who dropped out to form his Grammy-winning band added that he’s also “received a ton of letters over the years from fans that’ve said, ‘I am gay, and you’re Mormon — I like your band, but I know you don’t support me, and that hurts.