Out actor Zachary Quinto recently
discussed his feelings on an upcoming Supreme Court case challenging
gay marriage bans in four states.
The justices are expected to hear oral
arguments in April and hand down a ruling in June.
The 37-year-old Quinto currently stars
opposite James Franco in the film I Am Michael, which is based
on the life of Michael Glatze, a former gay rights advocate who two
years after appearing on the cover of TIME publicly renounced being
gay.
(Related: James
Franco: I
Am Michael asks
whether being gay is choice “in healthy way.”)
Speaking to MTV News from the Sundance
Film Festival, where the film premiered, Quinto said that he was
“thrilled” that the highest court was preparing to tackle the
issue.
“I'm actually thrilled, and guardedly
anticipating that whole wave, the final wave of the legal battle of
equality, which hopefully will continue in the same way that it has
on the state level,” Quinto said. “I think that we are living in
very interesting times, and I don't think that people are so easily
defined anymore. Whatever we can do as creative storytellers to
engage people in their own dialogue and their own understanding of
who they are is a good thing to be a part of.”