Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back! poster

Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back!

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"Pinkwashing" is a term activists have coined for when countries engaged in terrible human rights violations promote themselves as "gay friendly" to improve their public image. Israel is the country most famous for this strategy, having initiated it as part of a rebranding campaign has been engaged in for the last decade. In 2012, activists in the Pacific Northwestern region of the US responded to an Israeli Consulate-funded pinkwashing tour featuring Israeli gay and lesbian activists that was coming to the region. Local queer Palestine solidarity activists exposed the "Rainbow Generations" tour as pro-Israel propaganda and got some of the events, including the tour's centerpiece event hosted by the City of Seattle's LGBT Commission, cancelled. A significant backlash ensued involving the Seattle City Council and Seattle's leading LGBT and HIV organizations. Through the inspiring story of these activists' victory, Pinkwashing Exposed explores how pinkwashing works.

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Director

Dean Spade

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United States of America

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  • United StatesUS

    • Premiere10 May 2015
  • South KoreaKR

    • PremiereSeoul Human Right Film Festival16 Jun 2024

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Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back! was released on 10 May 2015.

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