Brunei

LGBTQ people face violence and severe repression around the world. Biden has the power to help in several countries.

“How would you cooperate with countries that view homosexuality as a sin and a crime that is punishable by death?”

If the rest of the world was more tolerant of their intolerance, diversity would be somehow stronger, they say.

A major Asian LGBTQ activist says that protests against Brunei’s anti-gay stoning laws misses the larger point.

The country has instituted a law that would stone LGBTQ people to death. So why should they pay extra to ensure their safety?

People all over the world are taking action against Brunei over its gay stoning law.

Meanwhile, Australia is telling gay people to “act heterosexual” if they have a stopover in Brunei so they aren’t arrested and executed.

Brunei is set to allow stoning as a punishment for homosexuality. Clooney isn’t having it.

There are currently ten countries that punish homosexuality can be punished with the death penalty.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Beverly Hills officials have condemned Brunei’s strict new Islamic criminal laws and want its government to separate itself from the Beverly Hills Hotel.

LOS ANGELES — Hollywood is responding to harsh new laws in the tiny Southeast Asia nation of Brunei by boycotting the Beverly Hills Hotel. The Motion Picture & Television Fund joined a growing list of organizations and individuals Monday refusing to do business with hotels owned by the Sultan or government of Brunei.

LONDON — Richard Branson, the founder and CEO of the Virgin group, a £15 billion multinational conglomerate, announced Saturday that he, and his company, would boycott hotels owner by the Sultan of Brunei due to the country’s anti-gay laws.

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei — Brunei on Thursday embraced a form of Islamic Shariah criminal law that includes harsh penalties, a move slammed by international rights group as a step backward for human rights.

BANDAR SERI BEGWAN, Brunei — The Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, has announced that harsh Islamic punishments that call for the death penalty for numerous offenses, including same-sex sexual activity, will come into effect on Thursday despite international condemnation.

Brunei has postponed its planned implementation of its new penal code that includes harsh Islamic punishments that call for the death penalty for numerous offenses, including same-sex sexual activity, and introduces stoning to death as the specific method of execution for crimes of a sexual nature.

A group of high-dollar LGBT donors has cancelled plans to hold its upcoming conference at the famed Beverley Hills Hotel in Los Angeles following news that its owner, the Sultan of Brunei, would institute a revised penal code in his country which calls for death by stoning for homosexual activity.

The United Nations Human Rights office has condemned a revised penal code in Brunei which calls for the death penalty for numerous offenses, including same-sex sexual activity, and introduces stoning to death as the specific method of execution for crimes of a sexual nature.