Zachary Quinto and Jonathan Van Ness on reclaiming queer narratives

Dinner’s on Me with Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Sony Music

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 753 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Over the course of the show, I’ve been able to share some of my personal life with you – from meeting Justin and our decision to get married, to parenting our two sons. It means a lot to me that we can have those conversations especially at a time when the rights of queer people, especially in the trans community, are under attack. It’s been so special to have these conversations with my guests as well. First up, “Star Trek” star Zachary Quinto. Over salads at American Bar in the West Village, we discuss his decision to come out publicly and our fun romps around Silver Lake gay bars in our 20s. Then, we have podcast host, haircare entrepreneur and “Queer Eye” star Jonathan Van Ness. Jonathan tells me what it’s like to live in Texas as a queer person, their journey to discovering their nonbinary identity and why a guinea pig named Peanut is causing a stir in some libraries. A Sony Music Entertainment & A Kid Named Beckett production. Interested in advertising on the show, contact [email protected]. Find out more about other podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The other day I was making lemonade with my sons, Beckett and Sully, and Beckett is a little bit of a perfectionist.
0:08.3	I'm not sure where he gets that from. It's me. It's definitely me. But he was getting really upset about the seeds falling into the juice and it was turning into a bit of high drama.
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1:00.6	Hey, dinner's on me listeners. I feel so honored and privileged, really, to be able to discuss
1:09.7	so many aspects of my personal life with you,
1:13.1	my coming out story, my marriage to Justin and the beautiful family that we've created.
1:18.6	It means a lot to me that we can have those conversations, especially at a time when rights of
1:23.7	queer people, especially people in the trans community, are under attack. And it makes it even more important for me to be able to give awareness and visibility into other stories, other than my own.
1:34.3	I've had so many great conversations on this podcast from my friend Zachary Quinto's story on deciding to come out publicly to Jonathan Van Ness and all of their amazing activism and openness
1:45.8	about their own positive status. I hope to continue to have more of these conversations because
1:51.4	they're just so important to me and they're so special to me. So on that note, I'd love to
1:57.5	revisit some of my favorite moments of some of these very special conversations.
2:02.6	Up first, we have my friend Zachary Quinto. He's going to start us off. You know him from Star Trek and the
2:08.5	boys in the band on Broadway. I asked him to meet me to chat over some salads at American Bar in the West Village.
2:20.4	You know, our early days in L.A. together, you know, we did live close to one another
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