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'Younger' star Nico Tortorella discusses nontraditional marriage, sobriety and advocacy for LGBTQ+ community
Actor Nico Tortorella’s marriage to fitness guru Bethany C. Meyers is far from your typical boy-meets-girl devotion story.
Tortorella and Meyers are a uniquely modern couple. Both are gender fluid, using “they/them” pronouns and their marriage is polyamorous -- redefining what it means to be “husband and wife.”
Their story is laid out in Tortorella’s new book “Space Between.” It’s a place, Tortorella suggests, where people who don’t consider themselves “he” or “she” can ring their own.
“When Bethany and I met in 2006, I was a male child and she was a girl, whatever that means,” Tortorella said, reading from “Space Between.” “Today Bethany and I both recognize as non-binary and select ‘they/them’ pronouns.”
“It's still a work in progress for everyone. I still mess up sometimes, too,” Tortorella said of using “they/them” pronouns. “For me, ‘they/them’ fully encompasses all of it that exists in my own multi-dimensional dynamic being. Right? It just feels more inclusive. It feels wider.”
Tortorella also spoke openly about their fight with fame, the painful process
“The Mattachine Family,”now available on digital platforms, is a feel-good comedy-drama about queer photographer Thomas (Nico Tortorella) choosing the family he wants. It goes beyond having married his husband, Oscar (Juan Pablo Di Pace), or having supportive friends — Leah (Emily Hampshire), her partner Sonia (Cloie Wyatt Taylor), and Jamie (Jake Choi); it’s about having a infant. After Thomas and Oscar foster Arthur (Matthew Jacob Ocampo) for a year, Thomas is bereft when Arthur is returned to his birth mother. While Oscar, a former youth actor, takes a employment in Michigan, Thomas mopes around L.A. trying to find purpose in his life. He is wary about being a dad again, but he also wants to fill the void Arthur created.
This affectionate film, directed by Andy Vallentine and written by his husband Danny Vallentine (based on their experiences), deftly examines gay parenthood from various angles, including surrogacy and fertility clinics. The film’s bittersweet innateness — as Thomas’ poignant voiceovers and photographs reflect on what family and friends mean — will melt the hearts of romantic viewers.
The nonbinary Tortorella spoke with Philadelphia Gay News about making the clip an
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When it comes to Hollywood interviews, they’re “just so f@#king straightforward and tedious and everybody asks the same questions and it just gets redundant,” explains Nico Tortorella.
But our interview is different, he says.
“This is a straight-up Love Bomb episode,” acknowledges the 28-year-old actor, likening the conversational tone of our exchange to his love- and sexuality-centric podcast, now in its second season.
Though he touches on Menendez: Blood Brothers, his Lifetime production about the infamous, parricidal siblings, and the upcoming season of TV Land’s Younger, Tortorella greatly expounds on his ever-evolving sexual identity, which has been an ongoing dialogue–internally and externally–since the actor revealed his label-less fluidity a year ago.
Now identifying as a “proud” bisexual, the Chicago-born dreamboat candidly discusses his desire for a polyamorous relationship, struggling with his sexuality as a kid before finding his queer “safe haven” within the theater and his current mission to normalize the abnormal.
Q: Your sexual identity has really evolved over the last year; in 2016, you revealed you were label-less New York City. “Spirits born equal but divided into unequal bodies.” To survey Nico Tortorella chant this over and over In an immersive performance tackling issues of gender, sexuality, identity, gratitude and even the orgasm, Tortorella causes you to question societal, political and historical structures and colonialism; where exactly did all these rules by which we live originate? In doing so, Tortorella strips bare the boundaries surrounding the term “love”, forcing you to instead observe at it for what it is and not what a governing body ordered it to be many moons ago. Identifying as gender non-conforming or pansexual, Tortorella is in a pol .
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It’s easy to tell a gender and sexuality story when it’s definitive. But when it’s not? Seek television actor, writer and podcast host Nico Tortorella
in person is something of a spiritual experience. Hypnotic. Intoxicating. Almost trance-like in its effect. The 30-year-old actor, writer and podcast host — who prefers ‘they/them’ pronouns and who is best known for their role as Josh on television smash-hit Younger — is performing their poetry at The Bell House on the outskirts of Brooklyn.