{"id":484088,"date":"2019-03-30T14:33:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T20:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=815733"},"modified":"2019-03-30T14:33:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T20:33:13","slug":"elton-john-aligns-with-george-clooneys-boycott-of-brunei-owned-hotels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/elton-john-aligns-with-george-clooneys-boycott-of-brunei-owned-hotels\/","title":{"rendered":"Elton John Aligns With George Clooney\u2019s Boycott of Brunei-Owned Hotels"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Elton John<\/a> has aligned with George Clooney<\/a>\u2019s boycott of Brunei-owned luxury hotels after the Asian nation passed strict \u201cSharia law\u201d that would allow for the stoning death of LGBTQ people.<\/p>\n

As Clooney noted in his op-ed to Deadline<\/a>, the Sultan of Brunei owns a handful of luxury hotels, including the Beverly Hills Hotel, the Dorchester in London and the Plaza Athenee in Paris.<\/p>\n

\u201cDiscrimination on the basis of sexuality is plain wrong and has no place in any society. That\u2019s why I commend my friend, George Clooney, for taking a stand and calling out the anti-gay discrimination and bigotry now being enshrined in law in the nation of Brunei, a place where gay people are brutalized or worse,\u201d Elton John said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs George has said, the Sultan of Brunei owns many luxury hotels around the world \u2013 hotels which David and I have found it impossible to visit since the Sultan\u2019s plan to push for sharia law in Brunei became public.  Our hearts go out to the good, hardworking employees of these properties, many of whom we know to be gay.\u201d<\/p>\n

John added, \u201cI believe that love is love and being able to love as we choose is a basic human right. Wherever we go, my husband David and I deserve to be treated with dignity and respect \u2013 as do each and every one of the millions of LGBTQ+ people around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

On April 3rd, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah will institute \u201cSharia law\u201d in the nation of 400,000 people, which would make sodomy, rape and adultery punishable by death and penalize theft with amputation, Reuters reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s be clear, every single time we stay at or take meetings at or dine at any of these nine 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,\u201d Clooney wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrunei is a Monarchy and certainly any boycott would have little effect on changing these laws. But are we really going to help pay for these human rights violations? Are we really going to help fund the murder of innocent citizens?\u201d<\/p>\n

John concluded in his statement Saturday, \u201cWe recognize that sovereign countries will make decisions for their own citizens.  But we feel we must send a message, however we can, that such treatment is unacceptable. We must never underestimate the power of our voices \u2013 and our actions \u2013 to spark the change we need to see.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Elton John has aligned with George Clooney\u2019s boycott of Brunei-owned luxury hotels after the Asian nation passed strict \u201cSharia law\u201d that would allow for the stoning death of LGBTQ people. As Clooney noted in his op-ed to Deadline, the Sultan of Brunei owns a handful of luxury hotels, including the Beverly Hills Hotel, the Dorchester […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-484088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 07:44:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}