米勒公开信

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re: st. petersburg international film festival / "guest of honor" invitation

dear ms.averbakh:

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