‘Police received a number of calls from the public regarding the posts. ‘Police are investigating after a number of racist and homophobic posts on poles along Chapel Street Prahran on 25 June,’ the spokesperson said.
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It just goes to show how far we still have to go in the fight for equality.’Ī police spokesperson told Gay Star News police were investigating the posters. ‘Our city is one of inclusion and should be a place where everyone feels safe to be who they are. ‘These homophobic posters along Chapel Street are appalling,’ Rice told Gay Star News. | Photo: Anti Defamation Commission The fight for equality is still longįederal Greens Senator Janet Rice lives in Melbourne and said the posters shocked her.
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One of the posters seen in Melbourne over the weekend. The Antipodean Resistance’s logo appears at the bottom of the poster. ‘Gays are a walking disease,’ the poster concludes. The posters also sites statistics that gay men make up the majority of STI and HIV cases. Reading ‘Happy AIDS Month’ the poster features a sickly looking man holding a placard reading ‘What are you doing about A.I.D.S?’ over a Pride flag background.
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The Antipodean Resistance which describes itself as ‘Hitler’s Youth’ put the posters up in the southern city of Melbourne on Monday (25 June). The posters appeared in the inner-city suburb, Prahran, which has one of the highest LGBTI populations in Melbourne. People spotted the posters along the busy shopping strip, Chapel St.
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A notoriously homophobic Neo-Nazi group has taken aim at Pride Month in a series of posters plastered around an Australian city.