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But there are still not many out gay big-name actors.

If you’re an actor who’s afraid of it, or think there’s something you’re not going to be able to achieve or accomplish [if you come out] then I have to disagree with you. If you don’t want it to be part of the public conversation, I respect that. I do feel I am ploughing a lonely road, but I’m just trying to do something.

Do you think Hollywood is open to having more openly gay actors?

Yes, I do.

Then why aren’t more actors coming out?

That I can’t say. I don’t know. Maybe there just aren’t that many gay actors. (Laughs) I think the younger generation is already more out, and more gay actors are living as they are and going after roles they should get. I think it’s becoming a less crucial conversation. I think it’s going to continue to evolve. I think we’ll all look back at this time and say how lucky we were to be a part of the evolution. I have no interest in dragging people out. If people are conditioned to live their lives based on what other people think of them, that’s a really heavy way to live. On some level, it’s really dark and unsatisfying to me. I just know I’m happy. I’m thrilled with the life I get to live.I wake up in the morning and look at this man I love, and I just feel so grateful.

Have other gay actors come to you for advice on how to be out?

A couple, yes.

What did you say to them?

I just share my experience, and say, ‘This is how it went down for me, this is how I feel’.I tell them, ‘Trust that even if it means you’re not as famous, or even if means it’s not exactly what you thought it would be, it’s still more valuable when you’re assessing your life at the end of that’.

So, you’re glad you came out in 2011?

Look at the amazing diversity of projects I do. I wake up every morning and hold hands with my boyfriend when we walk down the street and not worry about people seeing me. It feels like there’s a freedom and integration, and I can pursue authenticity in my life that is essential to my happiness and well-being. I just encourage people to not deny themselves that.

(‘Looking’ star) Jonathan Groff is an ex, right? Are you friends?

Oh yeah, totally. I saw him in [Broadway hit] Hamilton the other night. We were able to transition out of a relationship into a friendship pretty easily.

Do you hang out with other gay celebrities, like Dustin Lance Black?

I do know Dustin Lance Black. I was friends with Neil Patrick Harris well before his amazing career took off. Jesse Tyler Ferguson and I have been friends for years. It’s not about being gay celebrities; it’s about being gay friends before we became the celebrities we are now. It’s always wonderful, gay or straight, to see how much we have changed and evolved. I used to go to Jesse’s tiny studio apartment for dinner. Now I go over to his house to swim in his pool. I feel so proud of my friends. We have come up together, and have come through these walls of resistance. Now we’re in a place to celebrate all of who we are and the diversity of the work we’re doing and not hide any of it, or keep any of it silent. That feels very exciting to me.



How is aging for you?

I feel a sense of surrender and gratitude for all things getting older. I take care of myself. I see my face changing, my body changing. Changes are inevitable no matter how much you work out or what you eat. I like to find a balance. I don’t like to feel I’m restricting myself or enjoying life. I’m as vain as the next guy, but I don’t let my vanity dictate the choices in my life, and I don’t let my vanity dictate my sense of self-worth.

Would you have plastic surgery?

(Laughs) Today? No. At whatever time it is in the middle of New York in 2015, I could never imagine a scenario where I would undergo plastic surgery, beyond plucking my eyebrows and whitening my teeth. That’s the extent of it for me.

What comes next?

I’m playing (Guardian journalist) Glenn Greenwald in Oliver Stone’s Snowden·(set for a May 2016 release). I believe any citizen has a right to know they are being surveilled, watched, and intruded upon, and I believe that Snowden stood up for that in a way that required a tremendous amount of courage, sacrifice and perseverance and I respect that.

Should he face prosecution?

Not for me. We must ask where this wormhole of constant technological development is taking us. What are we hurtling ourselves towards, and why are we so willing to detach ourselves from what it means to be human? We give ourselves over to advancement and the mastery of knowledge, but what are the implications of that mastery, not to mention what technical advances have done to our environment. Maybe I’m more pessimistic-sounding than other people. I don’t want to say there’s no hope for humanity, I think there is. But I think ultimately it will be hard-won.

 

http://attitude.co.uk/zachary-quinto-is-attitudes-red-issue-cover-guy/


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