Middle Eastern queers have often resisted Western hegemonic models that tie them down to forced binaries, detached modes of belonging, rigid definitions of the closet, and a coming out dialectic that privileges visibility, pride, and family desertion. In this paper, I will examine the decolonizing queer project that a documentary “Oriented,” and a Palestinian activist organization (alQaws) offer in order to shift the conversation from the global to the local LGBTQ politics, and to shed light on the colonial violence equally enacted on the queer and national Palestinian body. AlQaws contends that transnational queer solidarity with Palestine should emanate from a place of decolonizing rather than reifying international homogenizing discourse and theorizing mechanisms of LGBTQ rights. Therefore, it complicates mainstream discourse and policies around coming out, homophobia, pride, and visibility (Maikey and Shamali 2011). By proposing to abandon a single-issue approach to sexuality, it urges activists to adopt an intersectional lens that pays attention to how diverse elements, including class, race, and gender, impact and contribute to the redefinition of LGBTQ identities in the region. Adopting a pinkwatching approach that exposes how Israeli Pinkwashing reframes “the relationship between Israel and Palestine from ‘colonizer-colonized’ to one that distinguishes between those who are ‘modern and open,’ and those who are presented as ‘backward and homophobic’” is essential to debunking the myth that Israel is the only haven to LGBTQ individuals in the Middle East. In identifying the insidious correlation between the fragmented Palestinian land under Israeli occupation, and that of the injured LGBTQ body, decolonial queering transcends hegemonic binaries in order to regain sovereignty of one’s local culture, body experiences, and the specificity of queer Middle Eastern subjectivity.