The significance of being gay in Ghosh’s De-Moralizing Gay Rights

Ghosh heralds Yoshino’s concept of ‘covering’ as helping us to understand the frontier of civil rights for LGBT+ people. While Ghosh’s analysis of covering brilliantly exposes the oppressive potential within the concept as Yoshino conceives it, Ghosh himself fails to fully avoid some of the criticisms that he advances. Moreover, he perpetuates a long and regrettable tradition of queer analyses of LGBT+ issues that privilege the experiences of gay men, say less about lesbians, and particularly neglect bisexual and trans* perspectives.