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The Pink Line
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The Pink Line

The World’s Queer Frontiers

Mark Gevisser
Profile Books, 2021

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Curious about how his life as a gay South African compared with those like him in other countries, journalist Mark Gevisser spent years traversing the globe to gather heart-rending and tender stories from LGBTQ+ individuals. His meticulous research and intimate conversations revealed a “Pink Line” demarcating LGBTQ+ individuals who enjoy acceptance and freedom from those facing harassment, imprisonment and death. In one of The Guardian’s and Financial Times’ “books of the year,” Gevisser provides a ground-breaking account of how gender identity and sexuality unite and divide today’s world.

Take-Aways

  • LGBTQ+ people’s experiences differ dramatically depending on which side of the global “Pink Line” they live.
  • Throughout most of the West, public attitudes toward LGBTQ+ communities shifted dramatically over the past two decades.
  • The LGBTQ+ movement in the West spawned backlash in nations that quietly accepted these communities for centuries. 

About the Author

Journalist, filmmaker and Yale graduate Mark Gevisser helped organize South Africa’s first Pride March in 1990.

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