Comments from actor Zachary Quinto are making headlines are reasoning the state of affairs regarding the attitude towards the HIV/AIDS virus in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. The 37-year-old actor of "Star Trek" and "Heroes" fame soon came under fire after urging caution when it came to use of the HIV/AIDS prevention drug Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, or PrEP, Huffington Post reports.

For its annual "Out 100" issue, Out Magazine's Mike Berlin interviewed the actor, who was named Artist of the Year for his critically acclaimed performance as Tom Wingfield in the American Repertory Theatre's production of Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" that closed on Broadway earlier this year. In the profile piece, though Quinto talked about his love for Oscar Wilde and his own work as writer and producer, his concerns about the rising number of HIV infections in adolescents has drew criticisms.

"I think there's a tremendous sense of complacency in the LGBT community," he told Out magazine. "AIDS has lost the edge of horror it possessed when it swept through the world in the '80s. Today's generation sees it more as something to live with and something to be much less fearful of. And that comes with a sense of, dare I say, laziness."

Quinto looked at PrEP, a prophylactic drug that has been a source of controversy since it's beginning in 2012, Pink News reports.

"We need to be really vigilant and open about the fact that these drugs are not to be taken to increase our ability to have recreational sex. There's an incredible underlying irresponsibility to that way of thinking...and we don't yet know enough about this vein of medication to see where it'll take us down the line."

The actor who garnered an Emmy Award nomination for his turn in "American Horror Story: Asylum" came out as gay in October 2011 to "an overwhelming wave of support," in a New York magazine interview, later penning a blog post clarifying his reason to come out.

AIDS and gay rights activist Peter Staley who wrote a column for The Huffington Post noted that although Quinto's "PrEP comments created the most stink because it possibly alludes to stigmatizing the HIV/AIDS community," he's only one of the seldom gay celebrities in Hollywood who have said anything at all, noting at a recent Kaiser Family Foundation survey reported that just 26 percent of LGBT men have been informed heard of such a drug as PrEP that prevents HIV infections.

"Sure, there's some unhelpful finger-wagging here that won't win Quinto any brownie points with many young gay men, but can anyone deny that complacency is now a major driver of new HIV infections in this group? Most of us have learned the hard way that using the plague years to browbeat younger generations doesn't work, but hearing a 37-year-old reference those times should count for something," Staley wrote, asking Quinto to a powwow.

Over the course of the next year, Quinto will next appear opposite Rupert Friend and Ciarán Hinds in "Hitman: Agent 47," in the Simon Helberg-directed film "We'll Never Have Paris," and in "Michael," a drama film inspired by the Benoit Denizet-Lewis' New York Times Magazine article "My Ex-Gay Friend," starring Lesley Ann Warren, Daryl Hannah, Emma Roberts and James Franco as the title character. In the later film, which has a budget of $3.5 Million, Quinto will portray Bennett, the former boyfriend of Michael Glatze, a gay activist who denounces his homosexuality after a health scare and becomes a Christian pastor in Wyoming.