Wentworth Miller has declined an invitation to be an honored guest at a film festival in Russia because he is gay.
On Wednesday, the actor said in a letter to the organizers of the St. Petersburg International Film Festival that he is “deeply troubled” by the treatment of gay people by the Russian government. The Russian government passed a law in June against representations of “nontraditional sexual relations.”
Miller is the star of TV’s “Prison Break” series, and says he is declining the invitation because he is gay and he refuses to celebrate with a country where gay people are “systematically denied their basic right to live and love openly.”
