Pinkwashed

Gay Rights, Colonial Cartographies and Racial Categories in the Pornographic Film Men of Israel

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12659727
AutoresBrett Remkus Britt (University of Delaware, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen17
Número3
Páginas398-415
Fecha de publicación2014-07-25
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Feminist Journal of Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1461-6742 • E-ISSN: 1468-4470
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14616742.2014.929370
OpenAlexW2329630362
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas50

Claims regarding “gay rights” have acquired a prominent role in debates over Israel's occupation of Palestine. This often takes the form of “pinkwashing,” a term denoting the use of gay rights discourse to justify the imposition of colonial rule. This article analyzes the pornographic film Men of Israel to explore how pinkwashing reflects colonialism's depoliticizing and exclusionary logics. Men of Israel shows how pinkwashing is far more than a justificatory practice. It also legitimates, reproduces and appropriates colonial narratives to justify an alliance between supporters of gay rights and the “pro-gay” Israeli state. It simultaneously excludes a racial category of people called “Palestinians,” which includes gay Palestinians, from the rights accorded to gay men in Israel. In an era of “gay rights as human rights,” such deployments of “gay rights” highlight the necessity of directing critical scrutiny to the alliances and exclusions implicated by a particular articulation of rights

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