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Activists like Peter Tatchell and Dustin Lance Black say the travel booking companies are complicit in supporting antigay violence.
As protesters descended on hotels owned by the sultan of Brunei, who enacted a law last week allowing gay and bi people to be stoned to death, activists also took sight of those who enable his actions -- travel booking websites.
British queer rights activist Peter Tatchell, citing the owner of London's G-A-Y nightclub Jeremy Joseph, specifically called out ExpediaUK, Trivago, and Booking.
\u201cShow solidarity with LGBT community In Brunei. Stop all business with Sultan\u2019s tyrant regime. Why are \u2066@ExpediaUK\u2069 @trivago, @bookingcom still booking Sultan\u2019s Hotels? They Are Colluding With Death By Stoning, Public Lashing & Amputation Of Limbs. via \u2066@JeremyJoseph\u2069\u201d— Peter Tatchell (@Peter Tatchell) 1554561440
Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black followed up on Tatchell's tweet.
\u201cHey, \u2066@ExpediaUK,\u2069 @trivago, & @bookingcom, I'd also like an answer to @PeterTatchell's valid question. Why are you still booking the Sultan\u2019s Hotels? By doing so, you are aiding and abetting the murders of women and LGBTQ people.\u201d— Dustin Lance Black (@Dustin Lance Black) 1554582163
Expedia (U.S.), Orbitz, and Travelocity are all still booking hotels in the sultan's Dorchester Collection, with the three sites offering a room at the Beverly Hills Hotel this week for about $765 a night; Orbitz shows it's been discounted from $835 a night. None of the three aforementioned websites have responded publicly to Tatchell and Black's tweets.
