15/01/2026 | Writer: Kaos GL
Kaos GL Editor-in-Chief Yıldız Tar spoke to Deniz Güngör of BirGün newspaper following the release of the trailer for the documentary “Rainbow Fascism.”
TRT Director General Mehmed Zahid Sobacı shared a trailer on social media for “Rainbow Fascism,” a documentary set to air on TRT’s digital streaming platform Tabii.
The hate-filled documentary depicts a glass-walled child’s bedroom entered by an elephant with a rainbow-colored hose. The elephant is shown destroying the room. Following the release of the trailer, criticism of the documentary quickly mounted.
Kaos GL Editor-in-Chief Yıldız Tar spoke to Deniz Güngör of BirGün newspaper after the trailer was released. Tar said, “They are doing propaganda against the public with the public’s money. If they are looking for somewhere to waste resources, they should turn and look at the real problems of the people.”
According to a report in BirGün newspaper; Tar drew attention to the creation of imaginary enemies by the state and used the following remarks:
“When the country is in the middle of an economic crisis, what is TRT doing? They take the money that comes out of our pockets, our taxes, and spend it on creating imaginary enemies and stoking hatred.”
Saying that, “While heterosexism and the binary gender regime are oppressive ideologies, labelling the mere existence of LGBTI+ people who oppose this ideological imposition as ‘ideology’ and even ‘fascism’ is a typical fascistic approach: Seizing the truth and turning it upside down”, Tar continued as follows:
“This method does not only use the lie that the oppressed are the oppressors for manipulation. It also tries to gain social legitimacy through a kind of ‘victim metaphor’. In this way it is not only expected to trigger primitive impulses like panic, but also for that impulse to take the pilot’s seat in order to spread anti-LGBTI+ hostility in society.”
"Politics of hostility"
Noting that in the founding myths of authoritarian and populist politics, hostility constructed through claims of “degenderisation” and so called “LGBT ideology” occupies an important place, Tar said the following:
“From the early periods of German fascism, its targeting of sexuality studies and the gay liberation struggle, which were only taking their first baby steps, its efforts to raid research centres and destroy all records, and its use of the legal provision banning homosexuality in an even more oppressive way for a kind of ‘witch-hunt’ were moves tied to fascism’s founding myths. We can interpret this both as enemy law and as the activation of the preventive state within the German fascist state structure, which consisted of a normative state and a preventive state. The process that went as far as the murder of homosexuals marked with pink triangles in concentration camps became one of the bricks used to build the superior German nation. The narrative accompanying this process was the lie that ‘homosexuality is a deviation against nature’ as much as the lie that it is a threat to social order and national security. These two narratives should be seen as intertwined and mutually reinforcing lines, even if, from the standpoint of rational reason, they seem to contradict each other, just like in the dual state mechanism.”
Drawing attention to the fact that such methods are once again being employed in Türkiye by the AKP-MHP government and pro-government media, as well as by right-wing authoritarian regimes around the world, Tar concluded their remarks by saying, “The liberation of LGBTI+ people will free the whole of society”:
“And while doing this they see no problem in acting as if they are mocking our intelligence. The call of the LGBTI+ movement stands: The liberation of LGBTI+ people will free the whole of society. Anything else is politics of lies and deception that no one believes.”
Tags: human rights, media, arts and culture, life, family, trans, lgbti
