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It’s Monday already?

You know what that means: it’s time to express our affinity for our man crush and Hollywood hunk Jared Leto. Handsome he is, but today, there’s another reason why we’re head over hair for him today.

For their latest issue, FourTwoNine magazine tapped the Oscar-winning actor joins his brother-slash-bandmate Shannon to be their cover boys, and inside, he opened up about being labeled as “queer.” Jared faced criticism following his role as Rayon, an HIV-positive transgender woman, in Dallas Buyers Club, but he wasn’t bothered by it one bit.

After Editor-in-chief Kevin Sessums questions whether he and Shannon would be “averse” to being called “queer,” Shannon said he wouldn’t care, to which Jared added:

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

Fans of Thirty to Seconds to Mars have been drawn to that differentness, Leto explains:

“I got a note from a kid yesterday,” Jared said. “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.'”

This from two boys who were raised in what Jared calls the “oppressive” south:

“We escaped early on…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.”

What’s more sexy than a man who’s comfortable with his sexuality? A man who’s comfortable with his sexuality and has the hair of a god. That’s what.

SOURCE & PHOTO CREDIT: FourTwoNine

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