The OutRage! website seems to be closed definitively for unknown reasons. While doing my research, it was sometimes opperative but most of the time it was not in function. Maybe the work of hackers or simply a condition to the February 2005 deal reached within the dancehall industry and gay organisations. In any cases, this is the way the text originally appered on their webpage.
		BBC uses homophobic track in TV adverts Outrage! News Service September 20, 2002 Original link for this article: LINK The BBC’s advertising campaign for their new Black Music Station – 1Xtra – includes a clip from the song “Chi Chi Man” by Jamaican band TOK. The song is one of the tracks involved in a controversy earlier this month which prompted an apology from the public broadcaster. Listeners are encouraged to “see if you can guess all the tracks” in a related promo for the advert on the 1Xtra website. “Normally it might be debatable whether a music clip could be construed a ‘offensive’ on its own” said Brett Lock, a spokesperson for OutRage! “but in the context of 1Xtra challenging the audience to identify the tunes, it is a whole different ball-game. They are inviting people to go and seek out the music. By selecting the track for use in their advert, they are giving it a special endorsement. This is unacceptable.” Even though it is the first track featured in the advert, the BBC station has tried to downplay its presence in the advert by excluding it from the “solutions” list on their website. On the list revealing the tracks, only 19 of the 20 tracks titles appear. TOK’s “Chi Chi Man” does not appear in spite of it being the first clip featured. The lyrics glorify the shooting of gay men (chi chi men) and setting them on fire. It also appears to suggest attacks on gay bars. “It is outrageous that these artists are being actively promoted by the BBC. Bands expressing racist or anti-Semitic sentiments would never be tolerated, but it seems that antigay hate-speech is the last form of acceptable bigotry. We are shocked and angry that the BBC does not seem to be willing to take the issue seriously” said Lock. OutRage! calls on the BBC to pull the advert and remove the online campaign that challenges listeners to identify the tune “if they are serious about eliminating homophobic hate-speech from the UK’s airwaves”.