Pinkwashing Analysis

5. Pinkwashing is defined by Spaid as the cover-up that mobilizes gay friendliness to obscure problematic politics and is often used as a smoke screen to distract from this. On the other hand, homonationalism uses gay rights as public relations tools, in order to appear as progressive and make competitors seem not as progressive in order to bring about their exclusion. Quite literally, it is defined in the text as a term used “to describe the strategy of the Israeli government has utilized in recent years to cast Israel as a ‘modern democracy’ by highlighting its purportedly progressive gay rights policies” because gay marriage is not banned here, and gays can also serve in the military. This pinkwashing was expanded with the funding of Israeli
This is fueled by the idea that gay friendliness equates to civilized politics and people. Hillary Clinton often utilizes pinkwashing with her “gay rights are human rights” speeches that, “obscures the actual geopolitical context of the reconfiguration of global power in the aftermath of World War II, the weakening of traditional European empire, the consolidation of the U.S empire as a dominant world power, and the divying up of spheres of military influence and control along what would become Cold War battle lines,” forgotten with HRC’s seemingly attractive and appealing globalization speeches (105). She also uses homonationalism when speaking about how those from the LGBTQ community are often “arrested, beaten, terrorized, even executed,” (8) referred to by the authors as “the time is now” speech as Clinton “brings gayness into the universal and affirms the
This is occurring in Palestine in order to enhance “criminal punishment and surveillance technologies” in order to respond to gendered violence, when in fact, this incident merely pinkwashes the coincidence that this is merely convenient and replicated by America’s models of “prison privatization or imprisonment-for-profit,” that was occurring in other parts of the globe, and America is able to escape taking responsibility for these infractions (110). Rather anti-homophobia is used as justification and excuse to invade, colonize, and police other areas, all under the name of “progression” and “anti-homophobia,”and is used in order to boost and promote imperialism and capitalism excusing or hiding the fact that “the figure of the gay hate crime victim operates domestically to pass laws expanding prison sentences and police budgets.” This is to ultimately “justify military intervention overseas” (111), part of the “sympathetic victim” phenomenon, that directly and merely detrimentally affects certain unprivileged groups and results in increased