Mark Gevisser: The Pink Line

The World´s Queer Frontiers. UK 2020, 525 pp., hardbound, € 25.95
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Six years in the making, »The Pink Line« follows protagonists from nine countries all over the globe to tell the story of how LGBTQ rights became one of the world´s new human rights frontiers in the second decade of the 21st century. From refugees in South Africa to activists in Egypt, transgender women in Russia and transitioning teens in the ... Weiterlesen

Mark Gevisser: Lost and Found in Johannesburg

A Memoir. UK 2014, 354 pp., illustrated, brochure, € 17.95
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Granta Books
This is a daring exploration of place and the boundaries upon which identities are mapped. As a child growing up in apartheid South Africa, Gevisser becomes obsessed with a street guide called Holmden´s Register of Johannesburg, which literally erases entire black townships. Johannesburg, he realizes, is full of divisions between black and white, rich and poor, gay and straight. He ... Weiterlesen