Actor and queer activist Nico Tortorella is ready to help the world get the ever-evolving nuances of their nonbinary and polyamorous life. “Just talk about how you are feeling more than you are, because then you can begin to feel differently. Nico Tortorella Fills The 'Space Between' Old Understandings Of Gender, Sexuality, And Love. Share more than you thought was okay,” Tortorella said of advice they’d give their younger self. Today, Tortorella is using their voice to advocate for young people who identify as gender-queer, creating a sense of belonging for others in the LGBTQ+ community, many of whom need a sanctuary to call their own. Just as changing today for so many people. “I can't change the past, I can change today. “I want to say, I wish I could do it all over again,” Walsh said. Tortorella, their mother and their partner are each on their separate journeys, but they are bound by respect and an abiding love. She now lives in Florida and developed a group of friends that includes a trans masseuse, gay hair stylist and a lesbian doctor - an evolution for her that happened alongside Tortorella’s journey. Over the years, the lessons learned from Tortorella became part of their mother’s everyday life. “But it was more important for me to have the love of my son,” Walsh continued. If you start drawing lines then you're put in a box.” “And I’m like, ‘Are you kidding me?’ I mean like, at one point does it stop? Where's the line? And I realize there is no line. “I was OK with everything to the best of my ability, and then I saw the dress,” she said. Victor Virgile/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images, FILE It’s those hard times that have made them resilient. That was the one thing that really was the devil for me,” they said. “Still, I speak of my sobriety as fluid like the rest of who I am. Today, Tortorella says their sobriety is going “great.” “Then Nico turned around and grabbed a bottle of vodka out of the freezer and started drinking it, and I was like, ‘Oh, you can’t.’ And that was a really scary moment for me.”
Let's just be sober today, let’s go out, let's not party, let’s like, be in the sunshine,’” Meyers said. “There was a day when I was like, ‘Hey let's just have a day together.
It could have.”īefore quitting alcohol, alarm bells were also going off at home with Meyers. So you feel like you're invincible right? And we just started going at it. He was like, ‘You're high right now.’ I was high. “I had gone to ask him for some advice and he was just like, ‘Don't put anything up your nose.’ We were all drinking,” they said. I was 21 years old living in New York City. Space Between is at once an education for listeners, a manifesto for both the labeled and label-free generations, and a personal memoir of love, identity, and acceptance.“I was working on the show that was based off his life. Nico has become a leading voice of the fluidity movement by encouraging open dialogue and universal acceptance. It was precisely in that space between that Nico encountered the diverse community of open-minded, supportive peers they’d always dreamed of having.Įxpanding on themes explored on their popular podcast, The Love Bomb, Nico shares the intimate details of their romantic partnerships, the dysfunction of their loud but loving Italian family, and the mingling of their feminine and masculine identities into one multidimensional, sexually fluid, nonbinary individual. It wasn’t until Nico dug deep and began to examine the fluidity of both their sexuality and gender identity that they became more comfortable in their own skin, got sober from alcohol, entered into an unconventional marriage with the love of their life, and fully embraced a queer lifestyle that afforded them the opportunity to explore the world outside the gender binary. That is, until the desire for fame and fortune eclipsed their journey toward enlightenment and sent them into a downward spiral of addiction and self-destructive behavior.
Raised on a steady regimen of Ram Dass and raw food, they have always been interested in the more spiritual aspects of life. "Nico Tortorella embodies the twenty-first-century human." (RuPaul) Younger star and LGBTQIA+ advocate Nico Tortorella investigates love, sex, gender, addiction, family, fame, and fluidity through their personal story and the lens of their nonbinary identity.
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