The Pink Line, Mark Gevisser
The Pink Line, Mark Gevisser
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The Pink Line
Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers

Author: Mark Gevisser

Narrator: Mark Gevisser, Vikas Adam

Unabridged: 18 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/28/2020


Synopsis

One of the Financial Times and Guardian Books to Look Forward to in 2020

This program includes a foreword and epilogue read by the author

A groundbreaking look at how the issues of sexuality and gender identity divide and unite the world today

More than five years in the making, Mark Gevisser’s The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers is a globetrotting exploration of how the human rights frontier 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 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 he’s encountered on the Pink Line’s frontiers 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 café in Cairo after the Arab Spring, a trans woman fighting for custody of her child in Moscow, and a community of kothis—“women’s hearts in men’s bodies”—who 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 monumental—and vital—journey through the border posts of the world’s new LGBTQ+ frontiers.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

"Narrator Vikas Adam's assured tone focuses listeners on the people who share their lived experiences in Malawi, Palestine, Mexico, Uganda, the United States, and elsewhere...Essential explorations of past and present events involving gender identity and sexuality illuminate their struggles for equality and acceptance amid legal and social persecution." -- AudioFile Magazine

About Mark Gevisser

Mark Gevisser is the author of the prizewinning A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream and Portraits of Power: Profiles in a Changing South Africa. He is the coeditor of Defiant Desire: Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa. His journalism has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, Granta, and other publications. He is the writer of the documentary film The Man Who Drove with Mandela, which won the Teddy Documentary Prize at the Berlin Film Festival. Born in Johannesburg in 1964, he now lives in France.


Reviews

Świetny reportaż, ale bardzo gorzki. Zwłaszcza epilog do polskiego wydania i czytanie o homofobicznym polskim bagienku oczami dziennikarza z RPA.......more

Goodreads review by Gerhard

Towards the end of this deeply moving and impeccably researched book, Mark Gevisser comments: “As a journalist and biographer, I had always held that the best way to understand change was to tell people’s stories …” This is a sure-fire means to “effect social and political change”, mainly because it......more

Goodreads review by Isa

La Línea Rosa es un libro que nos abre los ojos ante la realidad de muchísimas personas de la comunidad LGBTIQA+ alrededor del mundo. Cuando, como aliados, pensamos que el mundo ha avanzado un montón, que se están respetando más los derechos, que hay más diversidad, etc., este libro nos da una buena......more

Goodreads review by Paya

To jest jeden z najlepszych reportaży, jakie przyszło mi przeczytać. To praca obszerna, wnikliwa, szczegółowa i zakrojona na szeroką, bo światową skalę. Mark Gevisser przygląda się queerowym społecznościom w różnych zakątkach świata, przedstawiając czytelniczkom autentyczne historie, których bohater......more

Goodreads review by Joanna

Ewidentnym kłamstwem byłoby stwierdzenie, że ostatnimi czasy cierpimy na niedobór książek o tematyce LGBTQIA. I jest to jak najlepszy trend wydawniczy, który autentycznie cieszy. Zwłaszcza w naszym kraju, gdzie homofobia jest powszechna, gdzie rząd nie tylko dyskryminację osób nieheteroseksualnych a......more


Awards

  • Time Magazine Best Books of the Year