Mark Gevisser

Mark Gevisser is an award-winning South African author, journalist and editor. His books include The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers (2020), Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred (2022), and Lost and Found in Johannesburg (2014). His is the co-editor of The Revolution will not be Litigated: People Power and Legal Power in the 21st Century (2023), and the pathbreaking Defiant Desire: Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa (1996). His journalism and criticism has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Granta, and many other publications. He also works as a communications consultant in the political and non-profit sectors, and has been an exhibition curator, a non-fiction writing teacher, and a documentary filmmaker. He is currently working on a biography of Magnus Hirschfeld and Li Shui Tong, to be published in 2027.