Abusive mailbox flyers leave LGBTQIA+ community members reeling

Police are investigating a spate of flyers dropped in mailboxes across Perth targeting members of the LGBTQIA+ community.The flyers include photos and names of individuals, alongside sometimes explicit text accusing them of crimes such as paedophilia.They do not include any detail about the author and the people delivering them have not been identified.Pride WA board member Gregory Helleren said his image had been used in one of the flyers along with accusations pride groups were funding child abuse."I'm a pretty resilient guy, but it has been very disturbing," he told ABC Radio Perth."My brother actually alerted me to the flyer when he received one in his business mailbox in Highgate at the end of January."Mr Helleren said he had reported the flyer to police in February but claimed he heard nothing until uniformed police attended his home asking him to deny the allegations in the flyer."They were unaware of the reports made by me or others .. So I think the first thing is report it to police."Editor of LGBTQIA+ publication OUTinPerth Graeme Watson said he had spoken with another person who was the target of a flyer.He said he was shocked at the targeted, homophobic content."The first person we spoke to back in January, said that he had received a flyer in his own letterbox that accused him of a whole bunch of ridiculous, outrageous things," he said.For Mr Helleren, it was a reminder that society still had some way to go, and revealed he was the victim of a "gay bashing" 40 years ago."The same night that the decriminalisation of homosexuality was passed, on the very night ..