The Pink Line by Mark Gevisser
The World's Queer Frontiers
A wide-ranging, reportage-driven exploration of contemporary queer life and politics across the globe, blending personal stories of activists and ordinary people with analysis of the legal, religious and cultural forces that shape struggles for recognition and safety; the book traces how globalization, colonial history and local traditions produce divergent trajectories of progress and backlash, showing both the gains of increased visibility and the persistent, sometimes violent, resistance to change, and argues for nuanced, place-specific solidarities rather than a single universal model of LGBTQ rights.
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- Published
- 2020
- Nationality
- South African
- Length
- Long
- Pages
- 544
- Original Language
- English
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