Event Title
Pinkwashing; The Queer Critique of Israel’s Pro-Lesbian and Gay Politics in Historical Perspective
Description
In the past few years the Israeli government and its supporters have been actively promoting the country as the only nation in the Middle East to support lesbian and gay rights, and advertising their beaches to the gay community as an ideal vacation spot. Across the west lesbians and gays have adamantly rejected this campaign on the grounds that the Israeli government is using gay and lesbian issues, and gays and lesbians themselves, to cover up or "pinkwash" their actions, deemed "criminal" by the United Nations, against Palestinians. In this talk, historian Elise Chenier offers an overview of the history of queer politics in the west to put the current movement of queers against Israeli apartheid in context.
About the Lecturer: Elise Chenier, Assoc Professor of History & Director, Archive of Lesbian Oral Testimony, Simon Fraser University, BC
Document Type
Event
Start Date
19-2-2015 12:00 PM
End Date
19-2-2015 1:15 PM
Location
Fairhaven College Auditorium
Resource Type
Moving image
Title of Series
World Issues Forum
Genre/Form
lectures
Contributing Repository
Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Gays--Legal status, laws, etc.--Israel; Homosexuality--Law and legislation--Israel; Sexual minorties--Political activity--Israel
Type
Moving image
Keywords
Pinkwashing, Israel and Palestine, Gay politics
Rights
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Language
English
Format
video/mp4
Pinkwashing; The Queer Critique of Israel’s Pro-Lesbian and Gay Politics in Historical Perspective
Fairhaven College Auditorium
In the past few years the Israeli government and its supporters have been actively promoting the country as the only nation in the Middle East to support lesbian and gay rights, and advertising their beaches to the gay community as an ideal vacation spot. Across the west lesbians and gays have adamantly rejected this campaign on the grounds that the Israeli government is using gay and lesbian issues, and gays and lesbians themselves, to cover up or "pinkwash" their actions, deemed "criminal" by the United Nations, against Palestinians. In this talk, historian Elise Chenier offers an overview of the history of queer politics in the west to put the current movement of queers against Israeli apartheid in context.
About the Lecturer: Elise Chenier, Assoc Professor of History & Director, Archive of Lesbian Oral Testimony, Simon Fraser University, BC
