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The Amorphous and Complex Global ‘Pink Line’
Mark Gevisser s excellent study of the global weaponization of homo- and transphobia,
The Pink Line, provides a superb survey of the promise – and peril – of queer identity.
The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World s Queer Frontiers
Mark Gevisser
July 2020
When Vladimir Putin demonized LGBTQ people as part of his 2012 presidential re-election campaign and subsequently imposed regressive laws forbidding the positive portrayal of homosexuality in Russia (the infamous “Law for the Purpose of Protecting Children from Information Advocating for a Denial of Traditional Family Values”, or ‘gay propaganda law’), some commentators began referring to a ‘pink curtain’. It was a somewhat ironic nod to the ‘iron curtain’ label applied to the totalitarian Soviet Union during the Cold War of the 20th century. Other eastern European right-wing politicians followed Putin’s lead in scapegoating and demonizing queer people as