Gay-friendly Jared Leto

When asked if they would mind if called "queer" without it being a sexual term but a cultural one, Jared Leto and his brother Shannon didn't seem to be bothered at all.

“I don’t think we’d care at all,” Jared said. “We certainly identify with people who are different.”

“I wouldn’t care,” Shannon added.

Jared grew up in the south — which isn’t particularly LGBT-friendly, but they “escaped early on,” Jared said.

“It’s very oppressive. We would go back for the summers and stay with our grandmother, though. So the culture was always there that we returned to. We moved around every couple of years growing up. Way up to north Massachusetts. Everywhere. But no matter where we were it was a very creative environment around artists. That is obviously an important reason that Shannon and I are pursuing the path that we are now.”