Popular Hollywood actor Wentwort Miler,41, The prison break super star decided it was time to let the world know his sexual status. He was invited to Russia for a film festival and he wrote this letter to Maria Averbakh, director of the St. Petersburg International Film festival
"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," he continued in the letter, posted on GLAAD's website. "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.
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