Jared Leto: ‘I don’t care at all if people call me queer’
By Josh Haggis
Jared Leto has said he doesn’t mind if people call him “queer”.
At last month’s Oscars, Leto picked up the Best Supporting Actor prize for his role as transgender AIDS activist Rayon in Dallas Buyers Club. He is also known for fronting rock band 30 Seconds to Mars.
In an interview with FourTwoNine magazine, Leto and his brother/bandmate Shannon were asked whether they would mind being labelled “queer”.
Jared replied: “I don’t think we’d care at all. We certainly identify with people who are different.”
He then went on to discuss the large LGBT fanbase his band has attracted.
“I got a note from a kid yesterday,” Jared recalled. “We were signing a thousand CDs after a show. If you looked at him, he looked like any young kid maybe in twelfth grade or eleventh grade who’d be on the baseball team or something. A nice looking kid.
“He handed me a note and it said, ‘I just want to say thanks so much for the music. It’s helped me in many ways, especially with coming out this year to my family.'”
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