Following in the footsteps of George Clooney, city leaders are calling for a boycott of two hotels that are popular with Hollywood royalty, because the business owners are part of a foreign government that punishes homosexuality and adultery with death.
Los Angeles leaders are calling for a boycott of two Brunei-owned hotels, including the Beverly Hills Hotel, over the sultanate's death penalty laws for gay sex and adultery. Los Angeles city leaders are calling for a boycott of two hotels that are popular with Hollywood royalty, because the business owners are part of a foreign government that punishes homosexuality and adultery with death.
“This is sickening and it’s unacceptable,” Galperin told reporters at the news conference. “When the gravity of this decree set in, it hit me hard, not just because I’m a member of the LGBT community. … What kind of world do we live in where a country wants to put someone to death, wants to stone them just for being gay?”It’s not the first time city leaders have called for a boycott of the hotels.
“Unfortunately, peoples’ memories are sometimes short,” Galperin said. “There have been a number of attempts on an international level and otherwise to talk some sense into them, but that's not something that has been successful.”Hotel Bel-Air is owned by the sultan of Brunei. on Thursday.
Ellen DeGeneres, Jay Leno and Elton John have all publicly condemned the Brunei government’s laws and stopped staying at the hotels. On Friday, Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra’s daughter, said she hasn’t stayed at the Beverly Hills Hotel in years, despite the fact that it had become a big part of her life.
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