The actor is speaking out against Brunei's new death-penalty law for gay people and is boycotting hotels owned by the Brunei Investment Group

George Clooney is calling for the boycott of Dorchester Collection’s hotels, including The Beverly Hills Hotels and Hotel Bel-Air in California, after he says their owner has actively discriminated against the LGBTQ community.

The actor spoke out against the Sultan of Brunei, the head of the Brunei Investment Agency, which owns the Dorchester Collection of hotels and resorts in a column for Deadline.

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On April 3, Brunei, a country in Southeast Asia, will enact a new death-penalty law that allows stoning people who engage in homosexual activities to death.

“At the head of it all is the Sultan of Brunei who is one of the richest men in the world. The Big Kahuna,” the Catch-22 star writes. “He owns the Brunei Investment Agency and they in turn own some pretty spectacular hotels.”

The hotels owned by the Dorchester Collection are: The Dorchester in London, 45 Park Lane in London, Coworth Park in the United Kingdom, the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, Hotel Bel-Air in L.A., Le Meurice in Paris, Hotel Plaza Athenee in Paris, Hotel Eden in Rome, and Hotel Principe di Savoia in Milan.

The BIA and the Dorchester Collection did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

Previously, many people in Hollywood boycotted the Hotel Bel-Air and the Beverly Hills Hotel because of Brunei’s “treatment of the gay community.”

Clooney says they canceled a big fundraiser they had hosted at the Beverly Hills Hotel for years, and many others followed suit. However, the boycott didn’t last long.

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“Like all good intentions when the white heat of outrage moves on to the hundred other reasons to be outraged, the focus dies down and slowly these hotels get back to the business of business,” Clooney writes. “And the Brunei Investment Agency counts on that. They own nine of the most exclusive hotels in the world.”

The actor even admits that he has stayed at many of the luxurious resorts in his lifetime, writing, “Full disclosure: I’ve stayed at many of them, a couple of them recently, because I hadn’t done my homework and didn’t know who owned them.”

But Clooney says that’s about to change, and he hopes other people will join him in boycotting the resorts, no matter how luxurious they may be.

“They’re nice hotels. The people who work there are kind and helpful and have no part in the ownership of these properties,” he writes. “But let’s 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.”