Zachary Quinto

Photography by Michael Muller

“I needed it to happen,” Zachary Quinto remembers of the coming sense of imperative he fled when coming out to his mother. “Otherwise, I couldn’t move forward authentically. Ultimately, I think the only thing that really drives me in life, continually, is a pursuit of authenticity of experience—of myself.”

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Zachary Quinto

“One of the most defining conversations that I had with myself was that absolutely no good can come from me staying quiet about [my sexuality]. Literally, no good can come from it. But if I take the step to make the acknowledgment and be honest, so much good could potentially come from it.”

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Zachary Quinto

Currently, the man Quinto is sharing his life with is actor Jonathan Groff, and while he does draw a line in talking about his private life, he lets out, “I’m incredibly happy, I’m incredibly lucky.”
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Zachary Quinto

“I found myself in a pattern of being attracted to people who were somehow unavailable, and what I realized was that I was protecting myself because I equate the idea of connection and love with trauma and death,” Quinto says.

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Zachary Quinto

“It boggles my mind that there are so many extreme Christian organizations that are adopting a stance against homosexuality with such a vitriol and hatred and targeted aggression that goes against the tenets of the Christian faith,” he says. “The hatred that people are leading with in this discussion is really, for me, the biggest symptom of how sick we are. It’s the thing that makes me look at our culture and think, We are so far afield of any sort of connectivity or truth in relationship to one another,” Quinto says.

Read the full story, "Star Man."

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