Chris Pine hits out at Russia anti-gay laws
By Sam Rigby
Chris Pine has hit out at Russia’s anti-gay laws.
In an interview to promote his new film Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Pine urged the US to do more in opposition of Russia’s ban on gay ‘propaganda’.
According to The Guardian, he said: “I think we should do more than just send gay Olympians there… What’s happening there in terms of gay rights or the lack of it is extraordinary and awful.”
Openly gay tennis star Billie Jean King will travel to Sochi next month, along with skater Brian Boitano and ice hockey player Caitlin Cahow, as part of the US delegation.
In June 2013, Russia passed laws banning the promotion of “non-traditional sexual relations”, and there has been an increasingly hostile atmosphere towards the country’s LGBT community.
Sir Ian McKellen and 27 other Nobel laureates co-signed an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this week.