| 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. |
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| Police pursue anti-gay reggae star Outrage! News Service December 3, 2003 Original link for this article: LINK The Metropolitan Police is pursuing action against the singer Bounty Killer - one of Jamaica's biggest reggae stars - over allegations his lyrics advocate violent attacks on gay people, including murder. Detective Chief Inspector Clive Driscoll of New Scotland Yard's hate crime unit, the Diversity Directorate, is planning to interview the singer when he arrives in Britain later this week. Already, Driscoll has approached the London venue hosting Bounty Killer's Saturday concert, the Stratford Rex, and his ticket sales agent, Ticketmania, to discuss the concerns of the police. Driscoll has also contacted the British High Commission in Jamaica to ascertain the conditions attached to Bounty Killer's visa and work permit. Bounty Killer is due to perform at the Stratford Rex in London this Saturday, 6 December. Peter Tatchell of the gay rights group OutRage! has written to Driscoll urging Bounty Killer to be arrested on charges of inciting the assault and murder of gay people, and/or on charges of causing harassment, alarm and distress. Four Bounty Killer tracks call for gay people to be burned, drowned, wiped out, stoned and murdered (sample of the lyrics below). OutRage! is also requesting the police to warn the Stratford Rex and the concert booking agency Ticketmania they "may be guilty of aiding and abetting criminal offences by promoting and giving a platform to Bounty Killer, especially if he performs any of his violently homophobic songs on 6 December". OutRage! says: "If the Stratford Rex and Ticketmania cannot give an assurance that these violent, criminal tracks will not be performed, we urge the Metropolitan Police to insist that Bounty Killer's concert is cancelled and that all ticket sales are halted". |