Australia Post has had to desperately scramble pull a delivery after unknowingly distributing anti-LGBTI flyers covered in Nazi imagery in Victoria.
The flyer – titled The Death of Reason…and the rainbow walk to insanity! – refers to the rainbow road in Sydney’s Taylor Square and was emblazoned with doctored Nazi flags on the iconic gay area.
Image via BuzzFeed.
According to BuzzFeed, the flyer compared Nazi propaganda to the LGBTI community and was distributed in Shepparton and St Kilda, both of which have prominent gay communities.
“So Hitler’s invasion of the personal privacy of children in the 1930’s [sic] is the same totalitarian invasive influence of today,” the flyer reads.
“He used the same means, only now the pornography of power that is state propaganda has morphed from Nazi political perversion into perverted gay activism for abnormal ‘marriage’ equality.”
“The flags of the perverted rainbow are now emblazoned not just on city council offices, public walkways and in public parades but on churches as well; for the same reasons the perverted cross [the swastika] was paraded en-mass in pre-war Germany,”
The flyer also accuses the LGBTI community of creating a “cult like” coming out culture that encourages young people to make declarations of “unnatural and abnormal behaviour” rather than keeping it “private”.
BuzzFeed discovered the man behind the flyers, sent through Unaddressed Mail Service (UMS), was Adelaide street preacher Kevin Bickle, who described the flyer as a “personal effort” as opposed to an organisational drive.
“We weren’t trying to be controversial, but we knew it wouldn’t be popular,” he said of the flyers which, amongst other things, made the false claim that 45% of gay men will contract and die from HIV/AIDS.
“We’re talking against homosexuality, but not against the homosexuals,” he told BuzzFeed.
“The tract is not a simile between LGBT people and Naziism. I would never do that. It’s just a look at the means by which consumerism promotes things through mass media that extrapolates the effects in our day and age.”
“You actually have to read it. You have to spend 15 minutes reading it and soaking it up. It’s not by any means a quick look at and say ‘this is unsuitable’. You have to actually read it and let it sink in.”
“To be honest with you, I could not see any other way of making it simplified.”
As soon as Australia Post became aware of the flyers’ content, distribution was immediately axed.
The flyers come just weeks after derogatory, racist posters were posted around Sydney calling to deport prominent Australian Muslim individuals as well as entire races.
