More homophobic posters made by Neo-Nazis spotted in Melbourne
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More anti-gay posters bearing falsified statistics have been spotted in Melbourne as the “No” campaign intensifies in the lead up to the marriage equality postal survey.
After a poster bearing the words “Stop The Fags” circulated last week, the new poster again spreads misinformation about rainbow families.
The poster was found and photographed by Melbourne woman Alice Berkeley on a tram stop outside the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Buzzfeed News has reported.
Berkeley said she tore down the poster after taking a photo, with Buzzfeed reportedly receiving multiple photos of the poster from separate sources.
The Australian Institute for Family Studies and numerous other organisations have published reports which find that children raised by same-sex couples have the same outcomes as other children.
The poster also shows a man posing behind a child with a tattoo that can be interpreted as a reference to HIV, and again includes the words “Stop The Fags”.
More #respectfuldebate pedalling vicious libel against my community. Every word is a lie (note subtle HIV reference). (URL pixelated) pic.twitter.com/rBrAoq2xPO
— Paul Kidd ????????????????????️???? (@paulkidd) August 28, 2017
Neo-Nazi hate group Antipodean Resistance has claimed responsibility for the poster, having recently been in the news for a spate of racist posters plastered across Melbourne schools.
The group says they put up around “100 posters”, and claimed that their source for the false statistics on the poster was a report by Augusto Zimmerman published in far-right journal Quadrant.
Zimmerman had been floated as a possible replacement for Gillian Triggs at the Human Rights Commission, with his candidacy endorsed by Margaret Court.
Last week, the initial “Stop The Fags” poster attracted widespread attention but despite dogged attempts, Buzzfeed’s Josh Taylor was unable to verify the poster’s appearance on Melbourne streets.
The latest batch of posters has reinforced the LGBTI community’s concerns over the debate the postal survey has ignited.
Over the weekend, the cast and audience at a performance of seminal gay play Holding the Man in Longueville allegedly had their tyres slashed.
Yes people, of course this group of neo- Nazis called Antipodean Resistance are subhuman thugs and cowards.
But who is this Augusto Zimmerman, and what is this claim this group has drawn upon his statistics, and his being a possible replacement at the Human Rights Commission, and this being endorsed by Margaret Court?!
If this means that there is a risk of anyone with similar views to this neo-Nazi group getting into a position of real power or authority, than this needs to be aired!
To ‘K’ above- of course! But anti- vilification laws need to be acted upon. Perhaps its time for the gay community to launch class actions against groups like Antipodean Resistance.
But in the meantime, I have actually emailed this group and requested their address and to meet with them personally, so that I may punch their little neo-Nazi leader right in the face with my gay dutch fist.
I am serious, and it may make a nice poster to plaster around…
Just because the LGBTIQ community are fantabulously diverse and totally awesome, some square is jealous enough to make posters and full it with lies. They obviously have a serious intellectual disability and issues they’re too afraid to face.
Obviously there is no evidence to support the claims made on the poster, which proves how misguided they are.
We are a loud and proud community and if we disappear the world will be boring as batshit. Diversity is a necessity for man-kind to live and flourish.
Parents who are against equal love, have no reason to bear children. Your children deserve respect, choice, and unconditional love. If you cannot love your child for who and what they are, don’t have children!
Clearly the question has to be asked again, when is the government come good on the no hate speech laws and charge this “Antipodean Resistance” with hate crimes?
I think it will be a case of all bark and no bite. Pack of pussies.
I’m not surprised at these posters. Unfortunately those who oppose same sex marriage seem to be the only groups being active at the moment.
Everything we told Turnbull would happen is happening. If any self respecting LGBTIQ person votes for the LNP after this they really need to seek psychiatric assessment.
What a load of crap. Whoever made those Posters has a serious problem and I would be more worried about his/her mental state than a gay person. I find it disgusting and repulsive and to have a mind like the “Author” obviously has, is frightening.
What a load of crap. Whoever made those Posters has a serious problem and I would be more worried about his/her mental state than a gay person. I find it disgusting and repulsive and to have a mind like the “Author” obviously has, is frightening.
What have Neo-Nazi’s ever actually achieved with their hate speech? They are a small group or angry brain dead miscreants who are all bluster and nobody wants to be associated with them. Even people who are racists or homophobic wouldn’t want to be associated with the. They are just pissing in the wind.