--- title: The Pink Line: 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 description: Find out why The Pink Line by Mark Gevisser is on TIME's list of the must-read books from this year. canonical: https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2020/5904407/the-pink-line/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2020-11-09T20:14:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-02T23:44:57.172Z og:title: 'The Pink Line' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 og:description: Here's why it made the list og:url: https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2020/5904407/the-pink-line/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3fceee801d5fee72/698a140a656a3f6432bdaaf3/best-books-2020-Pink-Line.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 'The Pink Line' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'The Pink Line' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 twitter:description: Here's why it made the list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3fceee801d5fee72/698a140a656a3f6432bdaaf3/best-books-2020-Pink-Line.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Nov 09, 2020 # The Pink Line by Mark Gevisser by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff  “To see things from a ‘queer perspective’ is to look at the world askance, to see it afresh,” writes South African author and journalist Mark Gevisser in his latest work, _The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers_. Seven years in the making, Gevisser introduces readers to the lives of LGBTQ people around the world, including a gay Ugandan refugee traveling to Canada for resettlement, transgender software engineers in Bangalore and queer Egyptian activists in Cairo. Each chapter telling a personal story is interwoven with analysis of how questions of gender identity and sexual orientation have risen to prominence in global discourse over the past 20 years—from the culture wars over [transgender rights](https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2020/5888158/chase-strangio/) to the way globalization has both broken down boundaries between nations and built up international movements for LGBTQ rights. Through his storytelling and analysis, Gevisser transports readers to the frontiers in the fight for LGBTQ rights and identities. **Buy Now:** _The Pink Line_ on [Bookshop](https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9780374279967) | [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374279969/ref=as%5Fli%5Fqf%5Fasin%5Fil%5Ftl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0374279969&linkId=2d7014631cf9add9727159830094c97f) These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2020/5904407/the-pink-line/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2020/5904407/the-pink-line/"},"headline":"'The Pink Line' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2020","datePublished":"2020-11-09T20:14:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:44:57.172Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2020/5904407/the-pink-line/","keywords":["E-Commerce","Books","list"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3fceee801d5fee72/698a140a656a3f6432bdaaf3/best-books-2020-Pink-Line.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3fceee801d5fee72/698a140a656a3f6432bdaaf3/best-books-2020-Pink-Line.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2020/5904407/the-pink-line/","name":"'The Pink Line' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2020"}}]}] ```