14 DAY TRIAL // While it was one of those well-known things, “Star Trek” actor Zachary Quinto never admitted or denied being gay. In a recent interview with New York Magazine, he just drops it casually in the conversation, thus choosing what has been deemed the most elegant way of coming out.
Several male celebrities have come out on the cover of People magazine, so perhaps many expected Quinto to do the same.
Instead, he did it more elegantly. Speaking of the play “Angels in America,” Zachary says it was the most challenging and terrifying role he ever played but, at the same time, the most rewarding as well.
For one thing, it taught him that he should be grateful for things he was used to taking for granted, like his own birth.
“Doing that play made me realize how fortunate I am to have been born when I was born. And to not have to witness the decimation of an entire generation of amazingly talented and otherwise vital men,” the actor says.
“And at the same time, as a gay man, it made me feel like I — there’s still so much work to be done. There’s still so many things that need to be looked at and addressed. The undercurrent of that fear and that, you know, insidiousness still is swarming,” Zachary adds.
While the veiled announcement on his orientation may appear accidental, in a later post on his official webpage, Quinto explains that it was exactly the opposite.
In fact, he says, it was part of his decision to stop living his life in hiding because only out can he help change things.
He says Jamey Rodemeyer’s death made him see that.
“in light of jamey’s death – it became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it – is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality,” Quinto writes.
“our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay lesbian bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country,” he adds.