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Kenji Yoshino Analysis

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Kenji Yoshino is and Asian-American openly gay law professor who wrote about covering as a gay man and throughout other minority groups. Throughout his book he elaborates on the forced covering he had to deal with to fit in. After Yoshino first “came out” gay, he was not one to flaunt “being gay”. He was considered a gay who covered who he was and he believed there were four ways a gay could cover: appearance, affiliation, activism, and association. Yoshino believed the appearance-based covering, is to assume gay men as being feminine, which is a stereotypically association. Society is most likely not to think a masculine man is a gay man, so he felt if he worked out and was fit, he would not have to worry about having the “look” of a gay man.
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