| 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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| Buju Banton sought by police Outrage! News Service July 20, 2004 Original link for this article: LINK Buju Banton, one of the most notorious Jamaican dancehall artists, whose lyrics incite the murder of lesbians and gay men, was identified by witnesses as part of a queer-bashing gang who attacked six men in their home on June 24. Jamaican police are now seeking to interview Banton in connection with this attack, according to Radio Jamaica's RJR News on 13 July 2004. With hit songs like "Boom bye-bye (in a battyboy's head)", Banton has been the focus of an OutRage! campaign to stop murder music. Critics of the campaign have said that the homophobic content of his lyrics is metaphorical or just fantasy. Now the star is wanted for a very real violent incident, said Brett Lock of OutRage! Buju Banton, who's real name is Mark Myrie, is accused of being part of a gang that beat up six men they believed were gay. Some of the victims were reportedly hospitalised. This substantiates our claim that there are clear links between murder music and actual violent attacks against lesbians and gays, added OutRage! campaigner, Peter Tatchell. OutRage! has been campaigning over the past two years for the prosecution of Jamaican dancehall artists whose lyrics incite and glorify the murder of gay people. The campaign, which has been taken up internationally by other gay and human rights activists, has resulted in concert cancellations in Europe and the United States. |