Zachary Quinto Criticizes LGBT Community for Current Attitude Towards AIDS

Zachary Quinto made headlines when making open criticisms about his perception that the LGBT community has grown complacent in the fight against AIDS. Quinto is shaken by the rise in adolescent HIV infection, and wants others to be on the same page. He told OUT magazine, “‘I think there’s a tremendous sense of complacency in the LGBT community. AIDS has lost the edge of horror it possessed when it swept through the world in the ’80s. Today’s generation sees it more as something to live with and something to be much less fearful of. And that comes with a sense of, dare I say, laziness.”

Quinto went on to mention PrEP treatments and debates whether it’s responsible to use them for safe casual sex. “We need to be really vigilant and open about the fact that these drugs are not to be taken to increase our ability to have recreational sex,” he says. “There’s an incredible underlying irresponsibility to that way of thinking…and we don’t yet know enough about this vein of medication to see where it’ll take us down the line.”