The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers

by Mark Gevisser Picador 06/08/2021, paperback SKU: 9781250798596   A groundbreaking look at how the issues of sexuality and gender identity divide and unite the world today More than seven years in the making, Mark Gevisser's The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers is an exploration of how the conversation around sexual orientation and gender identity has come to divide -- and describe -- the 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 are celebrated in some parts of the world, laws are being strengthened to criminalize homosexuality and gender nonconformity in others. As new globalized queer identities are adopted by people across the world -- thanks to the digital revolution -- fresh culture wars have emerged. A new Pink Line, Gevisser argues, has been drawn across the globe, and he takes