UNITE HERE Local 11
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 13
2012
Contact: Hal Weiss, 516.428.1928 hweiss@unitehere.org
Activists
pledge to boycott hotel in video, citing owner Brunei’s anti-gay
policies.
LOS ANGELES – Gay rights activists pledged a
boycott of the Beverly Hills Hotel today, citing the hotel owner’s
state-sponsored homophobia. The hotel is owned by the nation of Brunei, a
country in South East Asia where male homosexuality is a crime.
A video made by the group calls on
supporters to “break up” with the hotel and to not stay there again until Brunei
changes its laws. It asks viewers who “wouldn’t eat at Chik-Fil-A,” why they
would “dine at the Beverly Hills hotel.” Last year, gay-rights groups launched a
successful boycott of Chik-Fil-A because of contributions the owner made to
anti-gay groups.
The video appears on a website maintained by
UNITE HERE, a labor union that has fought for equal treatment of LGBT people. It
includes an appearance by Derek Lloyd Saathof, a cast-member of the Logo
Network show, A-List: New York.
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