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ZACHARY QUTO: ‘THERE’S A TREMENDO FEAR AROUND OPENLY GAY MEN OUR DTRY’

Star Trek and The Boys the Band actor Zachary Quto has opened up about his cisn to e out publicly as gay 2011 via a post on his webse. * gay zachary quinto *

”It’s no shock that as one of Hollywood’s most visible gay actors, Quto intifi wh Vidal’s liberal pot of view – a radilly progrsive one back 1968. Quto scrib the Myra Breckridge thor as a “hero” of his, explag: “Gore wasn’t jt an tellectual tan… as a gay man, he was credibly unapologetic about his pot of view, and unaaid to unambiguoly exprs those pots of view at a time when they were absolutely radil. ”Debate class: David Harewood (left) and Quto rehearse ‘Bt of Enemi' (Johan Persson)When Quto me out back 2011, followg the suici of gay teenager Jamey Romeyer, he amed the cisn as a moral and polil one, wrg on his blog that “livg a gay life whout publicly acknowledgg ” was “simply not enough to make any signifint ntributn to the immense work that li ahead”.

STAR TREK'S ZACHARY QUTO OPENS UP ABOUT HIS CISN TO E OUT AS GAY

We talk about how a touchstone of gay culture still ronat for Zachary Quto — as an actor and member of the LGBTQ muny... * gay zachary quinto *

“There’s still a tremendo amount of fear around particularly openly gay men our dtry, ” he says. “There is this long-held and stubborn belief that to intify as an openly gay man on some level means you’re herently ls mascule, herently ls believable as a straight character. Zachary Quto has opened up about his cisn to e out as gay.

The actor has nquered the TV and film world wh rol Star Trek, Hero and Amerin Horror n currently be seen Netflix's movie adaptatn of gay drama The Boys the Band – and has recently explaed his cisn to go public wh his sexualy 2011. "I did feel like me g out would have potentially had an impact on my reer and wouldn’t have been a good one, " Quto told DeGuire/WireImageRelated: The Boys the Band review: Big Bang Theory's Jim Parsons sh glossy adaptatnRellg his cisn to e out publicly on his webse 2011, he add: "That was at a time when a lot of young gay kids were killg themselv around the untry bee of bullyg.

NetflixRelated: Zachary Quto says whole st wants to do Star Trek 4"Havg enjoyed a certa level of succs, I felt like the hypocrisy was too much to bear for me to be enjoyg this life that I had created for myself and not acknowledgg my inty as a gay man. But although the out actor is no stranger to the stage, havg performed plays as notable as Glass Menagerie, The Boys the Band, and Angels Ameri, Quto is preparg for his first Wt End n London, where he'll star as gay wrer and tellectual Gore Vidal, wh David Harewood playg polil rival, William F.

THIS IS HOW ZACHARY QUTO RETURNED TO BROADWAY A GAY CLASSIC

The "Marg Call" actor publicly reveals he is gay for the first time a new terview wh New York magaze and on his blog. * gay zachary quinto *

Also a gay in, " Quto said discsn wh Attu.

Never backed down om acknowledgg and acceptg his inty as a gay man.

Although he wasn’t even born when Boys the Band was first staged 50 years ago, this touchstone of gay culture still ronat for Zachary Quto — as an actor and member of the LGBTQ muny.

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Quto also spent those formative years navigatg toward a greater certaty of his sexual orientatn, grapplg wh both the ternal and external homophobia every young person fac at the possibily of beg gay.

“There’s a strong current of wticism and tellect that ns through the gay muny the face of persecutn and bullyg, ” Quto says. That’s also part of how I thk so many members of the gay muny have e to be such impactful tellectual mds and sightful, observant, hilar documenters of the social experience. “I feel like as a young gay kid — or at least nfed kid — there were certaly ways which I had to learn how to eva potential nflicts or potential volatile suatns, and I did rely on both w and tellect to do that, ” he’ll allow.

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Quto was born 1977, nearly a after Boys the Band took New York by storm wh s radil pictn of a Manhattan apartment full of gay men unable to be themselv safely outsi the world at large. Where the play self n be a mirror for the dience to reflect how far we’ve e the last 50 years; but also how far we’ve yet to go terms of tegratg homosexual inty to mastream culture.

Now the play is back the biggt way possible, starrg a Who’s Who of gay Hollywood heavyweights, cludg Quto, Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory), Matt Bomer (The Magic Mike films) and Andrew Rannels (Girls, The New Normal), each ntributg his own star power hop that the new productn will s own way pel dienc to rensir who gay people were — and are. But eventually — after the gay rights movement began, once homosexualy was dropped as a mental illns by the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn 1973, after the AIDS crisis — the show’s bchs, born a time of clstrophobia and reprsn, began to appear dated. Quto acknowledg that Boys “beme a b stigmatized as backward-lookg a kd of rctive, stereotypil associatn wh the gay characters.

ZACHARY QUTO ANNOUNC HE'S A 'GAY MAN''STAR TREK' ACTOR HAD DODGED MORS BEFORE MAKG REVELATN 'NEW YORK' {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}CELEBRIBY GIL KFMANOCTOBER 17, 2011/10:52 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}BY GIL KFMANOCTOBER 17, 2011 / 10:52 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"ZACHARY QUTO ANNOUNC HE'S A 'GAY MAN'","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2011-10-17T14:52:40.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2011-10-17T14:52:40.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"MTV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"MTV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1280,"HEIGHT":720}},"CREATOR":"GIL KFMAN","ARTICLESECTN":"CELEBRI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FOR YEARS, [ARTICLE ID="1610606"]"STAR TREK"[/ARTICLE] ACTOR ZACHARY QUTO DODGED QUTNS ABOUT HIS SEXUALY, PREFERRG TO KEEPG HIS PRIVATE LIFE PRIVATE AND LET HIS WORK ON TV SHOWS SUCH AS "HERO" AND MOVI LIKE THE RECENT "WHAT'S YOUR NUMBER" DO THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THEN, UNEXPECTEDLY, HE OFFHANDLY OUTED HIMSELF AN TERVIEW WH NEW YORK MAGAZE, WHILE DISCSG HIS STARRG ROLE LAST YEAR THE RTAGG OF THE EARLY AIDS-ERA DRAMA "ANGELS AMERI."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}QUTO TOLD THE MAGAZE THAT HIS EIGHT-MONTH ROLE THE EPIC PULZER PRIZE-WNG PLAY BY TONY KHNER WAS "THE MOST CHALLENGG THG I'VE EVER DONE AS AN ACTOR AND THE MOST REWARDG"; HE TOOK ON THE GELG ROLE OF LOUIS IRONSON, A CHARACTER WHO WALKS OUT ON HIS AIDS-STRICKEN BOYIEND. "AND AT THE SAME TIME, AS A GAY MAN, MA ME FEEL LIKE THERE'S STILL SO MUCH WORK TO BE DONE, AND THERE'S STILL SO MANY THGS THAT NEED TO BE LOOKED AT AND ADDRSED."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}QUTO, WHO HAS BEEN OUTSPOKEN ON GAY RIGHTS ISSU THE PAST, TOLD THE NEW YORK TIM LAST YEAR THAT EVEN THOUGH BLOGS WERE FULL OF SPECULATN ABOUT HIS ORIENTATN, HE PREFERRED "NOT TO FEED THE MOR L WH EHER SUBSTANTIATN OR DISMISSAL."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT THE EVENTS OF THE PAST YEAR APPEAR TO HAVE HAD AN IMPACT ON HIM AND QUTO SEEMED FORTABLE AT THIS POT ANNOUNCG HIS ORIENTATN. THKG ABOUT HOW THE LAST FEW MONTHS HAVE SEEN GAY MARRIAGE LEGALIZED NEW YORK WHILE ALSO MARKG THE RECENT SUICI OF BULLIED [ARTICLE ID="1671464"]GAY TEEN JAMEY ROMEYER[/ARTICLE], QUTO SAID, "AND AGA, AS A GAY MAN I LOOK AT THAT AND SAY THERE'S A HOPELSNS THAT SURROUNDS , BUT AS A HUMAN BEG I LOOK AT AND SAY 'WHY? WHERE'S THIS DISPARY G OM, AND WHY N'T WE AS A CULTURE AND SOCIETY DIG EPER TO EXAME THAT?' WE'RE TERRIFIED OF FACG OURSELV."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HE WAS ALSO GLAD TO BE TOWN PROMOTG THE FANCIAL CRISIS THRILLER "MARG CALL" -- THE FIRST FEATURE OM HIS PRODUCTN PANY, BEFORE THE DOOR PICTUR -- WHILE HUNDREDS OF [ARTICLE ID="1672558"]OCCUPY WALL STREET PROTTERS[/ARTICLE] ARE MPED OUT NEW YORK'S [ARTICLE ID="1672584"]ZUCTTI PARK[/ARTICLE]. "THE TIMG ULDN'T BE MORE IMPECBLE FOR TO TRY TO CREATE A DIALOGUE, WHICH IS EXACTLY WHY WE MA THE MOVIE THE FIRST PLACE," HE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHILE HE'S TOWN TO PROMOTE THE FILM, QUTO SAID HE PLANNED TO GO DOWN AND SEE THE PROTTERS TO GET A FLAVOR OF THE S-. "AS A LEFT-LEANG DEMOCRAT, I FEEL A SENSE OF RONANCE WH THEIR POSN," HE SAID. "BUT AS A CIZEN OF THIS UNTRY, I FEEL EPLY UNSETTLED THAT PEOPLE ARE RISG UP MOVEMENTS AGAST EACH OTHER. IT FEELS LIKE WE'RE MISSG THE MARK. ... THE BOTTOM LE IS WE'RE ALL F---ED, AND WE'RE ALL THIS TOGETHER."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

For Quto, each character is a qut: Spock attemptg to master his untapped rervoirs of emotn; the lover of a man who renounc homosexualy to preach the Gospel I Am Michael; the real-life gay journalist Glenn Greenwald on a search for tth Oliver Stone’s bpic based on famed whistleblower Edward Snown.

Zachary Quto speaks out about his homosexualy a new terview wh New York magaze that h the Inter over the weekend.

LAS GAGE AND ZACHARY QUTO ON THE ‘UNABASHED GAYNS’ OF THEIR RNCHY SXSW COMEDY ‘DOWN LOW’

It marks the first time the actor — known for his rol the TV seri Hero and the recent Star Trek reboot — has spoken publicly about beg gay.

'STAR TREK' STAR ZACHARY QUTO SAYS HE'S GAY NEW INTERVIEW

In a post on his webse, Quto wrote that he was motivated after learng of the ath of Jamey Romeyer, the gay teen who mted suici last month after years of beg bullied.

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'Star Trek' Star Zachary Quto Says He's Gay New Interview | Fox News.

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