PROTEST AS PERFORMANCE

The OutRage! art of activism, where style and symbolism are used to claim gay space, create public awareness of discrimination, challenge homophobia and promote a queer liberation agenda

OUTRAGE! - THE THEORY & PRACTICE OF QUEER POLITICS

The political philosophy of the queer rights group OutRage!

OUTRAGE!

Peter Tatchell was one of the 30 people who collectively founded the queers rights direct action group, OutRage!, on 10 May 1990.

Daring, witty, imaginative and defiant, OutRage!’s style of non-violent civil disobedience has elevated activism into an art form: protest as performance.

Full details of Peter Tatchell’s campaigning with OutRage! can be found on the OutRage! website:

The OutRage! website includes information about OutRage!’s many celebrated protests for queer human rights, including:

* naming 10 Anglican bishops who were urged to "Tell the Truth"

* disrupting the Romanian National Opera’s performance of Aida at the Royal Albert Hall

* Queer Remembrance Day at the Cenotaph

* the distribution of gay sex education leaflets at school gates to counter censorship in the classroom

* interrupting the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Easter Sermon in protest at his support for discrimination against lesbian and gay people