Movement Biography , bibliography , press cuttings . A British direct-action group formed in London on 10th. It was set up in direct response to the queerbashing of actor Michael Boothe, and the lack police action in similar cases. Anger at the murder of Michael Boothe by queerbashers was a major motivation for the formation last month of a new ACT-UP style organisation of lesbians and gay men who are about to begin a programme of high profile 'direct action' and 'civil disobedience'. The group, founded by among others, Simon Watney , has been dubbed OutRage.
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David Smith , in Gay Times , June, 1990. The group has particularly directed its attention at the Church of England for what is seen as hypocrisy. A review by Diesel Balaam in Gay and Lesbian Humanist , Spring 1999, Vol. Stylish , audacious, and with a shrewd idea of how the media operate, they have always known when to seize the moment, shaming the rest of us for our sluggishness, apathy and inactivity. They were also present at the near riot outside the Houses of Parliament in 1994, when the House of Commons refused an equal age of consent, despite reformers 'winning all the arguments'.