Posted by Adam

Sunday October 16, 2011

ZACHARY Quinto has casually come out as gay!

In a new interview with New York Magazine, the actor — who had an eight-month run in the play Angels in America, playing Louis Ironson, a man who abandons his AIDS-stricken boyfriend — spoke publicly about his sexual orientation.

“As a gay man, it made me feel like there’s still so much work to be done, and there’s still so many things that need to be looked at and addressed,” he told NY Mag about his role in the play.

He also spoke with the magazine about the fact that in the same year gay marriage was legalized in New York, a gay teenager in the state, Jamey Rodmeyer, was bullied and killed himself.

“And again, as a gay man I look at that and say there’s a hopelessness that surrounds it,” he said. “But as a human being I look at it and say ‘Why? Where’s this disparity coming from, and why can’t we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?’ We’re terrified of facing ourselves.”

Quinto’s new film Margin Call, a thriller that takes place in an investment bank during the early stages of the financial crisis, opens in theaters Oct. 21.

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