Poorer than George Clooney? How you spend your money still sends a message | Frances Ryan
When Brunei announced the death penalty for gay sex, the actor and Elton John called for a boycott of the sultanate’s luxury hotels. The rest of us should take note
from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2uACSOq
Elton John has joined George Clooney in calling for a boycott of nine Brunei-owned luxury hotels – including the Dorchester, London and the Beverly Hills hotel in Los Angeles – over the sultanate’s new anti-LGBT laws.
The law is horrific – Brunei is due to impose death by stoning as a punishment for gay sex, as well as adultery, from this week. As Clooney said, every time people use the hotels, “we are putting money directly into the pockets of men who choose to stone and whip to death their own citizens for being gay or accused of adultery”.
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