As the first frame of “The Invisible Men” flashed across the big screen Friday at New York’s Cinema Theater, I steeled myself for the worst. Back in August, I’d seen the Israeli documentary accused of pinkwashing when it screened at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, and the film endured similar charges in San Francisco in June. This would be my first time seeing the movie, and I was fully prepared to chalk it up to another Israeli attempt to put a progressive face on a brutal occupation.

But within the first few seconds of the documentary, director and narrator Yariv Mozer equated Israel’s policy of deporting gay Palestinians to the Occupied Territories with “sending them to certain death.” He bemoaned the fact that these men, many of whom sneak into Tel Aviv seeking refuge from violently homophobic families, are then “constantly hunted” in Israel as “illegals.” As the film went on to depict checkpoints, barriers, and the thousand indignities visited upon Palestinians every day, it became increasingly hard to see how this film could rightly be accused of pinkwashing.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/12/the-invisible-men-accused-of-pinkwashing.html

The "pinkwashing" concept is truly mind-boggling.