Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei, whose country newly implemented a law punishing gay sex with death by stoning, has a 36-year-old elder son named Prince Azim who has partied before with queer celebs like gay skiier Gus Kenworthy, trans conservative Caitlyn Jenner, an pro-LGBTQ pop-singer Mariah Carey, raising some eyebrows.
Blogger Perez Hilton recently claimed that Azim is a “big old homo” and “a big flamer,” but you should probably take that with a grain of salt until we get better confirmation.
Prince Azim is reportedly the fourth in line to the throne. Newsweek reports:
Azim, who often produces movies, is known for throwing lavish parties…. [In 2017,] Kenworthy posted a selfie to Instagram with his boyfriend Matthew Wilkas and fellow attendee Caitlyn Jenner… [at one of Azim’s parties]. PerezHilton.com shared a screengrab of Kenworthy’s picture at the time and claimed the athlete promptly deleted the photo from Instagram.
The website Hornet recently posted a link claiming that Azim is gay, but the Newsweek story that it led to made no such claim.
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In a video posted this week, blogger Perez Hilton claimed that Prince Azim is gay, but stopped short of offering specifics. Here is Hilton’s video below:
“Y’all know I don’t out people anymore,” he said. “I used to do that back in the day but I’m making an exception here. I’m guessing the Sultan of Brunei doesn’t know that his son, Prince Azim, is a big old homo. I would know because I have spent time with Prince Azim.”
“It’s so hypocritical. This guy’s son is a big flamer, and now he’s enacted a law to stone to death gay men or women, and people who are heterosexual who commit adultery,” he added.
A regional activist recently said that boycotts of the Sultan’s hotels won’t help the country’s LGBTQ community as much as elevating the voices of people who live there.
Reports of gay life in Brunei say that gay people “lay low,” living in the closet, barely patronizing Brunei’s clandestine gay bars and refusing to discuss gay life in general.
One gay man in Brunei recently told The Guardian that it’s unlikely that any gay people will actually be stoned to death under the homophobic law because the law has a “high burden of proof, requiring a confession, or at least four credible witnesses to a criminalized act, [meaning] it won’t be easy to prosecute.”
However, the man worried that the law will embolden homophobes into hunting queer people in the streets.
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ingyaom
He’s got an expensive camera, anyway … looks like a Leica M-something.
draven
I figured he had a relative or a son that was gay and he’s probably afraid his son will fall out fall in love with a big black gay man and there goes Empire lol. If his son is gay he can have babies thru artificial insemination and keep the kingdom I mean what’s the big problem those old Muslim laws need to die with the past and his daddy should stop hating gay people. Who knows baby his dad is gay those and scream the loudest are normally the ones.
draven
Excuse typo in past message Blame it on a computer And I didn’t feel like editing
Man About Town
You “didn’t feel like editing” and we should blame the computer?
DCguy
Translation: This is the same typical hypocrisy right wingers ALWAYS use. For example, the same right winger who votes against abortion will fly his own daughter to another country to get her one. The Sultan’s son can do whatever he wants and will never get in trouble for violating the laws, and without an ounce of irony his father will have others murdered for smaller infractions.
And as for this section…..
“Blogger Perez Hilton recently claimed that Azim is a “big old homo” and “a big flamer,” but you should probably take that with a grain of salt until we get better confirmation.”
Better confirmation? Not a fan of HIlton but he is the one who outted Neil Patrick Harris, Lance Bass, Clay Aiken, and Ricky Martin, and everybody attacked him calling him a liar and he was right every single time.
Kangol
Whatever Prince Azim’s sexuality, he should have a talk with his father about the abominable law he passed, and the shift towards Sharia law. If you really support your gay, bi and trans friends, then go on the record publicly affirming them and letting your father know his new policy is horrible and needs to be overturned.
Vince
The dad is most likely not going to change and any attempt even by his kids will only make him more set in his ways. $ or lack of is the only thing that will get his attention.
Vince
This hypocrisy has been going on for ages. The Saudi Royal family is most famous for that.
Billy Budd
Guys, come on. Come on, guys. It is quite OBVIOUS that this law was created as a diversionary measure to obfuscate the fact that the Sultan’s son is gay. People will die because of this. Hypocrisy reigns.
Morrisson
Queerty saying we should take something with a grain of salt until we receive confirmation is very pot, kettle, black.
Daggerman
…they’re scared and need to face their fear of homosexuality. They should grow up and acknowledge the reality of life on the planet now. And that there are ‘homosexual humans being’ living in their country also. I do feel sorry for them. Of-course for the gays who get all the trouble but all must learn that this attitude regarding having to KILL someone because of their sexuality is totally preposterous..