Zachary Quinto came out as gay back in college

Zachary Quinto, who plays Spock in the Star Trek film franchise, knew about his sexuality for a long time.

Speaking to the Guardian, he said: “The question of when I knew I was gay and when I accepted I was gay are two very different conversations. I suppose I knew what was going on. I just wasn’t ready to look at it.”

He added details about coming out as a student, sharing: “In college, I’d say. [When he came out]. Once I broke free of the expectations of my upbringing, my socioeconomic exposure to ….I grew up with a pretty suburban, Catholic upbringing. I feel once I was able to create my own life and explore my own path … um … then I started to turn my attention to fully understanding and accepting who I am.”

Quinto has been dating model Miles McMillan for about two years. During the interview, he continued to say: I feel like – I guess I don’t – it’s interesting. I don’t know. I guess part of me feels like my sexuality is one aspect among many aspects of my personality and I’ve integrated it over time. It has never occupied for me a space where I needed to aspire to some other version of myself other than who I was. I denied it for so long that I didn’t really allow myself to … um … to fully inhabit that part of my life. I just … I don’t know. I guess. I don’t know. I didn’t really ever … My experience of myself was not about that.”

The actor is also happy about an upbringing that didn’t include technology, saying: “I’m much saner and probably better adjusted than I would have been had I had the technology as a kid. We’re more fractured as a society than we’ve ever been. We carry these devices round in our pockets and stare at them every 30 seconds. It’s a slippery slope.”