Zachary Quinto who is famous for his role in Heroes and playing Spock in Star Trek has come out of the closet as a gay man.  The 34-year-old actor has not make the big revelation in a magazine cover story rather simply mentioned “I’m Gay” in an interview with New York Magazine and personal blog post.  While discussing his work on Broadway in the recent revival of the Pulitzer Prize winning play about the AIDS epidemic, ‘Angels in America,’ Quinto said, [The role was] the most challenging thing I’ve ever done as an actor and the most rewarding.” “And at the same time, 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. The undercurrent of that fear and that, you know, insidiousness still is swarming.  It’s still all around us.”

Quinto, star and producer of the new financial thriller Margin Call and who will also be seen in Ryan Murphy’s new FX series, American horror story, said: “There’s such tremendous disparity right now.  It’s like you have the legalization of gay marriage in the state of New York and three months later you have Jamey Rodemeyer killing himself, yet another gay teenager bullied into taking his life.”  “And again, as a gay man I look at that and say there’s a hopelessness that surrounds it, 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?’” he told the mag. “We’re terrified of facing ourselves.”

In a personal post on ZacharyQuinto.com, the actor said,
“When I found out that Jamey Rodemeyer killed himself—I felt deeply troubled,” Quinto wrote. “But when I found out that Jamey Rodemeyer had made an it gets better video only months before taking his own life—I felt indescribable despair.
“I also made an it gets better video last year—in the wake of the senseless and tragic gay teen suicides that were sweeping the nation at the time.
“ But 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,” he wrote. “Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay lesbian bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.
“I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society – and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action,” he continued. “Jamey Rodemeyer’s life changed mine. And while his death only makes me wish that I had done this sooner – I am eternally grateful to him for being the catalyst for change within me.”