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More than seven years in the making, Mark Gevisser鈥檚聽The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World鈥檚聽Queer Frontiers聽is an exploration of how the conversation around sexual orientation and gender identity has come to divide鈥昦nd describe鈥晅he 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鈥晅hanks to the digital revolution鈥昮resh culture wars have emerged. A new Pink Line, Gevisser argues, has been drawn across the globe, and he takes readers to its frontiers.

Between sensitive and sometimes startling profiles of the queer folk he鈥檚 encountered along the Pink Line, Gevisser offers sharp analytical chapters exploring identity politics, religion, gender ideology, capitalism, human rights, moral panics, geopolitics, and what he calls 鈥渢he new transgender culture wars.鈥� His subjects include a Ugandan refugee in flight to Canada, a trans woman fighting for custody of her child in Moscow, a lesbian couple campaigning for marriage equality in Mexico, genderqueer high schoolers coming of age in Michigan, a gay Israeli-Palestinian couple searching for common ground, and a community of kothis鈥曗�渨omen鈥檚 hearts in men鈥檚 bodies鈥濃�晈ho run a temple in an Indian fishing village. What results is a moving and multifaceted picture of the world today, and the queer people defining it.

Eye-opening, heartfelt, expertly researched, and compellingly narrated,聽The Pink Line聽is a monumental鈥昦nd urgent鈥昷ourney of unprecedented scope into twenty-first-century identity, seen through the border posts along the world鈥檚 new LGBTQ+ frontiers.

Speaker: Mark Gevisser
Respondents: Ann Cvetkovich and Jordache Ellapen
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