Editing OutRage! (section)

==Outing controversy==
{{Main|Outing}}
The issue of [[outing]], which had already begun in the United States, split the group in 1998. There was no consensus and so the group agreed to have no policy. Those who favoured the tactic then established their own group outside OutRage called "Faggots Rooting Out Closeted Sexuality" (FROCS) which was committed to outing.<ref name=Gross1993>{{Cite book |last=Gross |first=Larry P. |year=1993 |title=Contested closets: the politics and ethics of outing |publisher=U of Minnesota Press |isbn=978-0-8166-2179-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Xk1-rOS-3wC }}</ref> Peter Tatchell agreed to act as public speaker for the group. The outing plan was widely denounced by the press, before FROCS admitted the plan had been a ruse with the goal of getting newspapers which had themselves outed lesbians and gay men to denounce the practice of outing.

In 1992 the group suffered from [[entryism]] from far-left political parties who wished to use OutRage! as a front organisation for other political motives.<ref name=Watney2000 >{{Cite book | last=Watney | first=Simon | year=2000 | title=Imagine hope: AIDS and gay identity | publisher=Routledge | isbn=978-1-84142-057-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=itakm213BnMC | page=70 }}</ref> The most serious was by the Lesbian and Gay Campaign Against Racism and Fascism (LGCARF). The creation of the focus groups added to the vulnerability for a takeover and on 25 June the group took a decision to abolish all the groups. This decision was accepted by most but not by LABIA, and many of its members left, eventually to form the London chapter of the [[Lesbian Avengers]].