num_pages: 544
description: One of the Financial Times and Guardian Books to Look Forward to in 2020A groundbreaking look at how the issues of sexuality and gender identity divide and unite the world todayMore than five years in the making Mark Gevissers The Pink Line: Journeys Across the Worlds Queer Frontiers is a globetrotting exploration of how the human rights frontier around sexual orientation and gender identity has come to divideand describethe world in an entirely new way over the first two decades of the twenty-first century. No social movement has brought change so quickly and with such dramatically mixed results. While same-sex marriage and gender transition is celebrated in some parts of the world laws are being strengthened to criminalize homosexuality and gender nonconformity in others. A new Pink Line Gevisser argues has been drawn across the world and he takes readers to its frontiers.In between sharp analytical chapters about culture wars folklore gender ideology and geopolitics Gevisser provides sensitive and sometimes startling profiles of the queer folk hes encountered on the Pink Lines front lines across nine countries. They include a trans Malawian refugee granted asylum in South Africa and a gay Ugandan refugee stuck in Nairobi; a lesbian couple who started a gay caf in Cairo after the Arab Spring a trans woman fighting for custody of her child in Moscow and a community of kothiswomens hearts in mens bodieswho run a temple in an Indian fishing village.Eye-opening moving and crafted with expert research compelling narrative and unprecedented scope The Pink Line is a monumentaland vitaljourney through the border posts of the worlds new LGBTQ frontiers.
language: English
title: The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux