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Wentworth Miller: OUT 100 Newsmaker of the Year
Love, love, love that Wentworth Miller is out publicly now.
The fact that he chose to come out by speaking out against Russia’s anti-gay laws was brilliant and helped to quiet those predictable critics who want to know “What took you so long?”
OUT Magazine finished announcing its OUT 100 today (more on that in a future post) and Wentworth has been chosen Newsmaker of the Year.
His letter declining an invite to the St. Petersburg International Film Festival let the world know, officially, that he is a gay man and a gay man who cares about LGBT equality.
“Like everyone, I’d been reading reports online about what was happening in Russia,” the former Prison Break star tells OUT. “So when the invitation arrived, I thought, There is no way I can say yes. Then it occurred to me that if I made my response public, it might help draw additional attention to the situation. It felt like the right move at the right time.”
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Glenn Barker says:
Wentworth Miller~”In 2012 I joined a men’s group called The ManKind Project, which is a men’s group for all men, and was introduced to the still foreign and potentially threatening concepts of us … and we … the idea of brotherhood, sisterhood, and community. And it was via that community that I became a member and a proud supporter of the Human Rights Campaign.” ~Wentworth Miller