I prefer the idea that someone can be in entertainment and be able to live a sane life that might insure they remain productive, creative, and sane. No matter how entertaining it may be to hear about another stressed star in rehab, drunk, arrested, or indecently exposing themselves, how many of those stars are actually (while doing so) actually doing anything professionally worth watching or listening to? I prefer to know about Quintos, or Spears or Lohans or (insert celeb here) next project than who they may be dating, what their sexual orientation is, or watching them walk their dog.

Very rarely are all people so easily divided into two convenient categories.

As for the two groups going to war over it and poor Mr. Quinto. RME.

There is no more high and might group then the side that admits they aren’t into his acting because other wise they wouldn’t say things like he should give up eating, making a living, acting, if he doesn’t want them obsessed with his pics on the internet this is the same group that they badly need him to be gay LOL because clearly it does matter to them LOL if it didn’t they wouldn’t be trashing him/his fans and talking about it all time. The term fangurl is also a scream RME. Seriously Oh my God an actor has fangurls? no I am shocked. Get off the high horse with the term since aren’t you all the same thing? someone looking at a pic of the guy online and admitting they care so much about it is a fangurl. This is America, nothing in the bill of rights says Mr. Quinto have to give up eating due to some cough fans who appear to want him to do so, because they are in this for pap pic and over some dumb war over who he is doing, and not because they think he has talent and or wish him well. He isn’t doing anyone in either camp so all can get over it.

The other side that wants him not be gay, LOL as if it affects them personally. Even if he isn’t he isn’t going to date anyone on here. That group wants him to give up his right to be private- which is his right, and hang with them online LOL. They bitch all the time about wanting him to be on twitter and facebook with them, and tell them about his life and which girl he is dating LOL. Which he is smart enough not to. Not matter who he is dating. So what leg do they have to stand on complaining when you invade the man’s space.

This is America and I am not obsessed with anyone, least of all celebs. Mr. Quinto has a right to go anywhere in America with anyone he wants, and yes good taste and sense suggest Freedom only works when we respect it for others we ensure it for ourselves. I have a life so I don’t need to have pap pics of ZQ to give me a life. I personally love my own freedon and life so would have enjoyed the concert, been amused Spock was there and left him alone as I would want to be left alone but that is me. I paid to go the concert no way would I be so celeb obsessed to be taking his pic.

So I hope you spent some of the night actually listening to music you paid to hear. I hope he had a great time, with as many guys, gals, and joints as he wanted, and hope he continues acting, and ignore his so called fans RME.

As for publication, that’s exactly what he did. He published it on Twitter, where it was picked up by several gossip publications.

As I said, taking the picture isn’t so much the issue. It was PUBLISHING it on a public venue. Not emailing it to a few friends, showing it to his relatives, but putting it not on any Twitter account, but the Twitter account linked to his professional journalist site that you can access by linking the menu bar to the right of this very page.

That put it a touch beyond what you and I would (or could) do when seeing a celebrity out and about.

Secondly, just because many people would do it doesn’t mean that anyone should do it. We do tons of things these days, from reality tv shows, to shouting private cellphone conversations in the middle of movies, that we shouldn’t.

But all this argument is based on what this man is denying that he is, a paparazzi. Nobody is saying they are going away, nobody even is saying that they should be illegal. But most people, including the journalist himself, calls them ‘slime’. Its his rather passive-aggressive denial (Hey, I’m not a person who makes a profit by snapping candid shots of celebrities, even if I am doing that very thing by writing this post and stirring the ‘controversy’ further) that is in dispute.

He is a freelance photographer, he isn’t on a payroll, and he snapped a picture that was published. This was a ‘candid’ picture, in that it was a picture that wasn’t posed, nor was agreed to, and I think we can all agree that ZQ is a celebrity.

“a freelance photographer, esp. one who takes candid pictures of celebrities for publication.”

“A freelance photographer who doggedly pursues celebrities to take candid pictures for sale to magazines and newspapers.”

I highly doubt the guy who took the photos figured people(fangirls) would get upset by him taking a photo of Zach. He was probably just as thrilled as anyone of us to be able to be that close to Zach and snapped a couple pictures as proof. Hell, I’d do the same thing! LOL

As for celebs and their “privacy”, nowadays it’s a moot point. If you’re anyone in the entertainment business, you’re fair game. It’s just what it is and has been for a very long time. I highly doubt anything is going to change in regards to paparazzi-celeb interactions. If an actor wants to protect his privacy, dont get into the entertainment biz…plain and simple. I don’t agree with some of the things the paparazzi do to get their photos but they’re people too who make their living by taking photos of celebs. People getting angry over something that can’t be changed is just a waste of time. JMO