In the wake of the NYT Pinkwashing op-ed, Sarah Schulman and the folks at PrettyQueer.com posted this handy Documentary Guide to Pinkwashing. It tracks Israel's perverse queer-oriented PR campaign to cloak apartheid in LGBTQ rights, from 2005 to the prese...
Pinkwashing hits the New York Times!
11/24/11
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Queers have known about pinkwashing for a good while. But because queers are now the sacred darlings of liberals (or at least, nice queers are) it's been hard to crack through the well-meant mainstream's idea that Palestinian queers are better off with Israel.
Sarah Schulman's op-ed in the New York Times finally gets pinkwashing the huge exposure it deserves. She hits not just the pinkwashing of Israeli apartheid, but the use of queers to demonize Muslims and Arabs far beyond Palestine. And not too soon: QAIA's...
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