Brunei: Relax, The Hollywood Stars Have Come To The Rescue!

Well-known champion of gay rights, the Daily Mail, who rather wonderfully have filed this in the Travel section.

'To stay at the Beverly Hills Hilton or to take a holiday in Brunei click here...' etc.

The Sultan of Brunei is worth an estimated $20 billion, so I'm sure he really cares about a few canceled bookings.

Anyway, let's get angry about a law in some horrid foreign country that will almost certainly never be enforced.

Some Hollywood stars, pictured recently making sad faces.

PS The Real Story Behind Brunei's Sharia Laws Isn't The One That Gay Rights Groups Are Telling You, Scott Long, PolicyMic.

It's clear that the Human Rights Campaign and other U.S. gay activists still haven't learned the importance of alliances, a blindness doubly alarming when projected onto an international scale. The current fetish for fast results and clicktivism only feeds into this. A quick boycott threat might bring down a Firefox CEO in a few days, but political change across continents takes patience and persistence and hard work, not hashtags.

Indifference to the broader issues at stake, to the fate of women in Brunei and to the work of feminists throughout the region, is disgraceful. It endangers LGBT Bruneians by turning the dispute over the Syariah code into a battle solely of "the Sultan vs. the gays." It damages regional women's movements by relegating their campaigns again to silence. This isn't international solidarity: It's international solipsism.