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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