'Star Trek' Star Zachary Quinto: I'm a Gay Man

Zachary Quinto's eight-month run in the recent New York stage revival of Angels in Americawas an eye-opening experience for him. 

Since the project, the actor, 34 – who had an acclaimed role as Louis Ironson, a man who abandons his AIDS-stricken boyfriend – publicly discusses his much-questioned sexual orientation for the first time. 

In a new interview in New York, Quinto calls his work in the off-Broadway play the "most challenging thing I've ever done as an actor, and the most rewarding." 

"At the same time," he adds, "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."