pinkwashing

marketing and political strategies aimed at promoting products, countries, people, or entities to LGBTI people; using LGBTI-related symbols in order to be perceived as progressive, modern, and tolerant

Class type of: marketing strategy, corporate sociopolitical activism Q20200811

Facts

4 properties

Instance of: LGBT marketing
Subclass of: marketing strategy, corporate sociopolitical activism
Facet of: LGBTQ^[4]
Different from: rainbow capitalism, allegation of homosexuality^[5]^[6]

🏷️ Also known as

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Freebase ID: /m/012j2nj8
GSSO ID: 003796
Homosaurus ID (V2): pinkwashing
Homosaurus ID (V3): homoit0001117
Homosaurus ID (V4): homoit0001117
Lex ID: pink-washing
Quora topic ID: Pinkwashing

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Different from 1

rainbow capitalism

Facet of 1

LGBTQ

Instance of 1

LGBT marketing

Subclass of 1

marketing strategy

Subtypes 1

queerbaiting

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rainbow capitalism

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Summary

pinkwashing is a LGBT marketing^[1]. pinkwashing is a type of marketing strategy^[2] and corporate sociopolitical activism^[3].

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Class ancestry

[1] ↑ pinkwashing is an instance of LGBT marketing (Q3854862) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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@misc{4ortxyz_pinkwashing_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{pinkwashing}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/pinkwashing}, note = {Accessed: 2026-11-08}}

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28w ago · Arlo Barnes · 2026-05-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Subclass of → marketing strategy, corporate sociopolitical activism

Different from → rainbow capitalism, allegation of homosexuality

Instance of → LGBT marketing

Facet of → LGBTQ

"Created claim: Different from: allegation of homosexuality"

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