Wentworth Miller on Fans Wantg Character to Be Gay

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• WENTWORTH MILLER REVEALS, 'I TRIED TO KILL MYSELF' FOR BEG GAY
• WENTWORTH MILLER ON COMG OUT AS GAY: "I FEEL MORE FULLY EXPRSED"
• ‘BROTHERS & SISTERS’ LE MACFARLANE, ON BEG GAY! HIS RELATNSHIP WH WENTWORTH MILLER IS A PRETTY EXCG ONE. KNOW ABOUT IT
• WENTWORTH MILLER GAY: Y, WENTWORTH MILLER IS GAY AND WAS DATG LE MACFARLANE, RELATNSHIP TIMELE
• WENTWORTH MILLER COM OUT AS GAY
• WENTWORTH MILLER ADDRS FANS WANTG HIS PRISON BREAK CHARACTER TO BE GAY AFTER HE STEPS DOWN
• THE BT PRODUCTS TO HELP YOUR FAY TRAVEL SMOOTHLYOPEN MENUVIOSHOPCULTUREFAYWELLNSFOODLIVGSTYLETRAVELNEWSBOOK CLUBGMA3: WYNTKNEWSLETTERPRIVACY POLICYYOUR US STATE PRIVACY RIGHTSCHILDREN'S ONLE PRIVACY POLICYINTERT-BASED ADSTERMS OF USEDO NOT SELL MY INFOCONTACT USCOPYRIGHT © 2023 ABC NEWS INTER VENTUR. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.SEARCHCULTUREFORMER 'PRISON BREAK' STAR WENTWORTH MILLER REVEALS HE HAS TISM2:37WENTWORTH MILLER REVEALS MENTAL HEALTH BYSTEPHEN IERVOLOJULY 27, 2021, 4:28 PMFORMER "PRISON BREAK" STAR WENTWORTH MILLER TOOK TO INSTAGRAM TO REVEAL HE'D BEEN DIAGNOSED AS TISTIC LAST YEAR."PRECED BY A SELF-DIAGNOSIS. FOLLOWED BY A FORMAL DIAGNOSIS," THE 49-YEAR-OLD ACTOR SAID, LLG "A SHOCK. BUT NOT A SURPRISE."MILLER, HOWEVER, SAID HE HAS MUCH TO LEARN ABOUT THE DISORR. "THERE IS A NOW-FAIAR CULTURAL GO, 'PUBLIC FIGURE SHAR A, B AND C PUBLICLY, DIT PLATFORM TO D, E AND F,'" HE WROTE.HE NTUED, "[T]HAT'S NOT NECSARILY WHAT'S GOG TO HAPPEN NOW MY WORK LOOKS LIKE EVOLVG MY UNRSTANDG. RE-EXAMG 5 S OF LIVED EXPERIENCE TH A NEW LENS. THAT WILL TAKE TIME."FEARG "THE RISK OF SUDNLY BEG A LOUD, ILL-RMED VOICE THE ROOM," MILLER SAID, "THE #TISTIC MUNY (THIS I DO KNOW) HAS HISTORILLY BEEN TALKED OVER. SPOKEN FOR. I DON'T WISH TO DO ADDNAL HARM."MORE: WHY WENTWORTH MILLER WON'T REPRISE 'PRISON BREAK' ROLE: 'I JT DON'T WANT TO PLAY STRAIGHT CHARACTERS'MILLER SAID HE WOULDN'T CHANGE HIS DIAGNOSIS, REALIZG "BEG TISTIC IS CENTRAL TO WHO I AM. TO EVERYTHG I'VE ACHIEVED/ARTICULATED.""TO THE MANY (MANY) PEOPLE WHO NSCLY OR UNNSCLY GAVE ME THAT EXTRA B OF GRACE + SPACE OVER THE YEARS, ALLOWED ME TO MOVE TH THE WORLD A WAY THAT MA SENSE TO ME WHETHER OR NOT MA SENSE TO THEM... THANK YOU," HE SAID, ADDG, "AND TO THOSE WHO MA A DIFFERENT CHOICE... WELL. PEOPLE WILL REVEAL THEMSELV."MILLER ME OUT AS GAY 2013 AND LATER REVEALED HE'D BEEN SUICIDAL AS A TEEN. IN 2019, HE ANNOUNCED THAT HE WOULD NOT RETURN TO A "PRISON BREAK" REBOOT AND THAT HE WAS "DONE" PLAYG STRAIGHT CHARACTERS. THIS SEASON, HE REPRISED HIS ROLE ON "LAW & ORR: SVU" AS ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY ISAIAH HOLM, AN EPISO THAT REVEALED THE CHARACTER HAD BEEN BULLIED BEE OF HIS SEXUALY.UP NEXT CULTURE—'LOOK WHAT YOU MA ME DO (TAYLOR'S VERSN)' FEATURED 'WILRNS' TEASER: WATCH HEREAUGT 23, 2023BEYONCE REQUTS THIS BIRTHDAY WISH OM FANS ATTENDG RENAISSANCE TOURAUGT 23, 2023ZENDAYA OPENS UP ABOUT HER WORST OUTF EVER: 'YOU ULD’VE DONE BETTER!' AUGT 23, 2023TENNIS STAR CHRIS EUBANKS 'READY TO GET BACK ON THE URT' AT US OPEN, PRACTICG WH CO GFFAUGT 23, 2023UP NEXT CULTURE—'LOOK WHAT YOU MA ME DO (TAYLOR'S VERSN)' FEATURED 'WILRNS' TEASER: WATCH HEREAUGT 23, 2023BEYONCE REQUTS THIS BIRTHDAY WISH OM FANS ATTENDG RENAISSANCE TOURAUGT 23, 2023ZENDAYA OPENS UP ABOUT HER WORST OUTF EVER: 'YOU ULD’VE DONE BETTER!' AUGT 23, 2023TENNIS STAR CHRIS EUBANKS 'READY TO GET BACK ON THE URT' AT US OPEN, PRACTICG WH CO GFFAUGT 23, 2023
• WENTWORTH MILLER EXPLAS WHY IT'S BETTER TO USE GAY ACTORS FOR GAY ROL
• IS WENTWORTH MILLER MARRIED? DO HE HAVE A WIFE, GAY PARTNER OR HBAND?
• WENTWORTH MILLER COM OUT AS GAY RPONSE TO RSIAN FILM FT INVATN
• WENTWORTH MILLER: I'M GAY
• 'THE FLASH' STAR WENTWORTH MILLER CAME OUT AS GAY 2013 — INSI HIS DATG HISTORY

WENTWORTH MILLER REVEALS, 'I TRIED TO KILL MYSELF' FOR BEG GAY

ByLESLEY MESSERSeptember 9, 2013, 10:58 AMWentworth Miller speaks onstage at the "Rint Evil: Afterlife" panel discsn durg Comic-Con 2010 at San Diego Conventn Center, July 24, 2010, San Wter/Getty Imag— -- Wentworth Miller publicly me out as gay last month, and now he's discsg his stggle g to terms wh his inty. "Miller, 41, announced that he was gay a letter to the St.

WENTWORTH MILLER ON COMG OUT AS GAY: "I FEEL MORE FULLY EXPRSED"

"I am eply troubled by the current attu toward and treatment of gay men and women by the Rsian ernment, " he wrote. "Now, Wentworth is beg more forthg about his stggle to accept himself as a gay man, and the strs his inty ed him. He rejected the vatn to the ftival on the grounds of Rsia's troublg attu towards gay men and women, wrg:.

"As a gay man, I mt cle.

"I am eply troubled by the current attu toward and treatment of gay men and women by the Rsian ernment. If you're hot and bothered bec you fell love wh a fictnal straight man played by a real gay 's your work. "I'd like to tell -- to watch -- more stori where gay characters are rmed by their stggl, but not fed, " he said, addg, "Not gettg sacrificed so straight characters n enjoy some kd of epiphany.

‘BROTHERS & SISTERS’ LE MACFARLANE, ON BEG GAY! HIS RELATNSHIP WH WENTWORTH MILLER IS A PRETTY EXCG ONE. KNOW ABOUT IT

"we are here to support you always, love you, " @alejanndraarc wrote, and others threw many heart, who me out as gay 2013, said he had been receivg ments and DMs om fellow Instagram ers that were evintly homophobic, promptg him to speak out. Acpanied simply by a blank whe square, the 48-year-old actor — who is an out gay man — wrote a lengthy ptn on Sunday acknowledgg both his fans and his haters, statg that he “n’t be bullied out of this space” while exprsg ncern that younger queer people might see homophobic ments on his page and be “exposed to bullsh. If you're hot and bothered bec you fell love wh a fictnal straight man played by a real gay one… That's your work.

“Am I sayg gay actors (gay men, specifilly) should only play gay parts? ” He also said that he wanted to see more gay parts played by gay actors, claimg that dog so mak a difference terms of performance and bee “straight actors playg ‘gay’ centers straightns. ”Addnally, Miller touched on his own experienc wh self-censorship as an actor workg Hollywood, sayg that while no one ever explicly told him to “bury his gayns, ” he had received a “don’t ask, don’t tell” msage om the culture at large, cludg the “homophobic subgroup” of the fandom he has cultivated.

”While Miller didn’t specify what new work his “break” om the closet will entail, he exprsed a sire to make up for lost time as an openly gay actor. “My gayns was largely erased (by me, for starters) the first s of my reer, ” he said. A 2013 survey of the labor unn SAG-AFTRA found that over half of LGBTQ+ rponnts believed that directors and producers were biased agast hirg LGBTQ+ performers, and that half of LGB rponnts reported wnsg directors and producers makg anti-gay ments about actors.

WENTWORTH MILLER GAY: Y, WENTWORTH MILLER IS GAY AND WAS DATG LE MACFARLANE, RELATNSHIP TIMELE

Matt Sayl/AP PhotoWentworth Miller is openg up about his cisn to e out as gay. I thk 's possible to have a man-csh if you're not gay or to have a csh on a guy you know to be gay if you're a woman.

WENTWORTH MILLER COM OUT AS GAY

Also, he has not given any hts on his social media is starred queer romantic edy ‘Bros’ where he plays the role of a gay and is the love tert of Billy Eichner, -wrer and Macfarlane’s Net worthMacfarlane’s birth name is Thomas Le Macfarlane Jr. They are two of the openly gay characters Miller has played on TV sce his fal appearance as Sfield 2017.

The first time I met Warren, we agreed any character I'd play would be gay and a POC. I'd like to tell -- to watch -- more stori where gay characters are rmed by their stggl, but not fed. Is Wentworth Miller Gay?

WENTWORTH MILLER ADDRS FANS WANTG HIS PRISON BREAK CHARACTER TO BE GAY AFTER HE STEPS DOWN

Be wh and know is Wentworth Miller Gay.

“I have to say no, though, sce I’m gay.

Y, Wentworth Miller Gay. Miller vehemently nied beg gay to InStyle magaze 2007.

THE BT PRODUCTS TO HELP YOUR FAY TRAVEL SMOOTHLYOPEN MENUVIOSHOPCULTUREFAYWELLNSFOODLIVGSTYLETRAVELNEWSBOOK CLUBGMA3: WYNTKNEWSLETTERPRIVACY POLICYYOUR US STATE PRIVACY RIGHTSCHILDREN'S ONLE PRIVACY POLICYINTERT-BASED ADSTERMS OF USEDO NOT SELL MY INFOCONTACT USCOPYRIGHT © 2023 ABC NEWS INTER VENTUR. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.SEARCHCULTUREFORMER 'PRISON BREAK' STAR WENTWORTH MILLER REVEALS HE HAS TISM2:37WENTWORTH MILLER REVEALS MENTAL HEALTH BYSTEPHEN IERVOLOJULY 27, 2021, 4:28 PMFORMER "PRISON BREAK" STAR WENTWORTH MILLER TOOK TO INSTAGRAM TO REVEAL HE'D BEEN DIAGNOSED AS TISTIC LAST YEAR."PRECED BY A SELF-DIAGNOSIS. FOLLOWED BY A FORMAL DIAGNOSIS," THE 49-YEAR-OLD ACTOR SAID, LLG "A SHOCK. BUT NOT A SURPRISE."MILLER, HOWEVER, SAID HE HAS MUCH TO LEARN ABOUT THE DISORR. "THERE IS A NOW-FAIAR CULTURAL GO, 'PUBLIC FIGURE SHAR A, B AND C PUBLICLY, DIT PLATFORM TO D, E AND F,'" HE WROTE.HE NTUED, "[T]HAT'S NOT NECSARILY WHAT'S GOG TO HAPPEN NOW MY WORK LOOKS LIKE EVOLVG MY UNRSTANDG. RE-EXAMG 5 S OF LIVED EXPERIENCE TH A NEW LENS. THAT WILL TAKE TIME."FEARG "THE RISK OF SUDNLY BEG A LOUD, ILL-RMED VOICE THE ROOM," MILLER SAID, "THE #TISTIC MUNY (THIS I DO KNOW) HAS HISTORILLY BEEN TALKED OVER. SPOKEN FOR. I DON'T WISH TO DO ADDNAL HARM."MORE: WHY WENTWORTH MILLER WON'T REPRISE 'PRISON BREAK' ROLE: 'I JT DON'T WANT TO PLAY STRAIGHT CHARACTERS'MILLER SAID HE WOULDN'T CHANGE HIS DIAGNOSIS, REALIZG "BEG TISTIC IS CENTRAL TO WHO I AM. TO EVERYTHG I'VE ACHIEVED/ARTICULATED.""TO THE MANY (MANY) PEOPLE WHO NSCLY OR UNNSCLY GAVE ME THAT EXTRA B OF GRACE + SPACE OVER THE YEARS, ALLOWED ME TO MOVE TH THE WORLD A WAY THAT MA SENSE TO ME WHETHER OR NOT MA SENSE TO THEM... THANK YOU," HE SAID, ADDG, "AND TO THOSE WHO MA A DIFFERENT CHOICE... WELL. PEOPLE WILL REVEAL THEMSELV."MILLER ME OUT AS GAY 2013 AND LATER REVEALED HE'D BEEN SUICIDAL AS A TEEN. IN 2019, HE ANNOUNCED THAT HE WOULD NOT RETURN TO A "PRISON BREAK" REBOOT AND THAT HE WAS "DONE" PLAYG STRAIGHT CHARACTERS. THIS SEASON, HE REPRISED HIS ROLE ON "LAW & ORR: SVU" AS ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY ISAIAH HOLM, AN EPISO THAT REVEALED THE CHARACTER HAD BEEN BULLIED BEE OF HIS SEXUALY.UP NEXT CULTURE—'LOOK WHAT YOU MA ME DO (TAYLOR'S VERSN)' FEATURED 'WILRNS' TEASER: WATCH HEREAUGT 23, 2023BEYONCE REQUTS THIS BIRTHDAY WISH OM FANS ATTENDG RENAISSANCE TOURAUGT 23, 2023ZENDAYA OPENS UP ABOUT HER WORST OUTF EVER: 'YOU ULD’VE DONE BETTER!' AUGT 23, 2023TENNIS STAR CHRIS EUBANKS 'READY TO GET BACK ON THE URT' AT US OPEN, PRACTICG WH CO GFFAUGT 23, 2023UP NEXT CULTURE—'LOOK WHAT YOU MA ME DO (TAYLOR'S VERSN)' FEATURED 'WILRNS' TEASER: WATCH HEREAUGT 23, 2023BEYONCE REQUTS THIS BIRTHDAY WISH OM FANS ATTENDG RENAISSANCE TOURAUGT 23, 2023ZENDAYA OPENS UP ABOUT HER WORST OUTF EVER: 'YOU ULD’VE DONE BETTER!' AUGT 23, 2023TENNIS STAR CHRIS EUBANKS 'READY TO GET BACK ON THE URT' AT US OPEN, PRACTICG WH CO GFFAUGT 23, 2023

Bee he was “very ncerned” by how the Rsian ernment was treatg s homosexual rints.

The actor cl an vatn to Rsia fense of gay rights. Petersburg Internatnal Film Ftival, which he cled an vatn to be a "gut of honor" at the Rsian said the reason was bee he is "a gay man. ""I am eply troubled by the current attu toward and treatment of gay men and women by the Rsian ernment, " he wrote.

WENTWORTH MILLER EXPLAS WHY IT'S BETTER TO USE GAY ACTORS FOR GAY ROL

"Miller was referencg Rsia's new anti-gay law, which "crimaliz public exprsn of support for nontradnal relatnships, " the Associated Prs reported. Origally tled the law on "homosexual propaganda, " the act was signed to law by Print Vladimir Put last month.

IS WENTWORTH MILLER MARRIED? DO HE HAVE A WIFE, GAY PARTNER OR HBAND?

Miller, who is gay, said his cisn was partly lked to the abe he gets om homophobic viewers, who are prumably unhappy to learn he’s not as straight as his character is. “If you’re hot and bothered bee you fell love wh a fictnal straight man played by a real gay one… That’s your work. Wentworth Miller me out as gay 2013, four years after Prison Break wrapped s origal n, a letter clg an vatn to a Rsian film ftival.

He said that as a gay man, he uld not be prent on acunt of the Kreml’s treatment of LGBT+ people. Wentworth Miller is speakg out about why he is not support of havg his Prison Break character e out as gay. On Saturday, Miller, 48, rpond to fans wantg his character Michael to be gay followg his announcement.

WENTWORTH MILLER COM OUT AS GAY RPONSE TO RSIAN FILM FT INVATN

In and around the 'reveal' I'm gay IRL, don't wish to play straight parts etc., I saw dozens of ments suggtg Michael leave Sara for T-bag. "Is possible, to some folks, T-Bag = 'gay' rep on PB?

Fet the homophob + zealots (bec f--- them) - for the queer kids, the queer adults who will never e out bec g out = ath their part of the world... "Miller me out as gay 2013 and later revealed he'd been suicidal as a teen. Actor Wentworth Miller has spoken further about the importance of gay reprentatn on screen.

Two weeks ago, Miller – who me out as gay 2013 – announced that he had no plans to return for a mooted sixth season of Prison Break, sayg he only wished to play gay characters om now on.

WENTWORTH MILLER: I'M GAY

In the acpanyg ptn, Miller spoke about the power of havg two openly gay actors to play gay superhero and kiss on screen. He also went on to highlight one of the benefs of stg a gay actor.

'THE FLASH' STAR WENTWORTH MILLER CAME OUT AS GAY 2013 — INSI HIS DATG HISTORY

He didn’t have to be gay but the wrers wrote that sh. So we got 2 gay actors playg 2 gay superhero kissg onscreen… Felt like a need tweakg. In the sc where Leo tells Mick and Sara he’s marryg Ray, his origal le was like, “I jt want somethg normal…” Gays.