41 year old Wentworth Miller who played the lead character as Michael Scofield in Prison Break, has declared his status as a gay man after being invited to attend a film festival in Russia yesterday August 21. He's invitation to the premiere was rejected because of Russia's recently-passed anti-gay laws. In a letter to Maria Averbakh, director of the St. Petersburg International Film Festival he wrote...
"Thank you for your kind invitation. As someone who has enjoyed visiting Russia in the past and can also claim a degree of Russian ancestry, it would make me happy to say yes,"However, as a gay man, I must decline.
"I am deeply troubled by the current attitude toward and treatment of gay men and women by the Russian government. "The situation is in no way acceptable, and I cannot in good conscience participate in a celebratory occasion hosted by a country where people like myself are being systematically denied their basic right to live and love openly.
Perhaps, when and if circumstances improve, I'll be free to make a different choice.
Until then. Wentworth Miller
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