The Gay Voice - Universy of Toronto Magaze

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This also appli to gay women and their employment of the mascule ton.

Contents:

DO YOU SOUND GAY? WHAT OUR VOIC TELL – AND WHAT THEY DON’T

We might thk we know what a gay person sounds like. But there are veats to the cliche — and ‘voice-shamg’ tells a lot more about our culture than do about the person speakg * gay camp voice *

“You don’t seem gay.

WHAT MEANS TO ‘SOUND GAY’

What the way we talk says about gay pri and lgerg prejudice * gay camp voice *

I n’t easily pute what means to be gay if ’s not havg jt intified yourself wh that label. You haven’t – at least that moment, at that party – exhibed the mannerisms lked many people’s mds wh male homosexualy.

WHY IS THAT SOME GAY MEN EMPLOY AN EFFEMATE VOICE?

The Effemate Voice trope as ed popular culture. A male character who is In Touch wh His Feme Si, Camp Gay, Camp Straight, androgyno lookg … * gay camp voice *

The notn you would be pleased to fd this out reveals an unthkg prejudice: how rehg is to meet a gay who don’t make a meal of .

Maybe I’m more “gay”.

Y, seemg gay – broadly speakg, beg mp – is a way of holdg onelf, a way of drsg, but ’s large part a way of speakg. His qut to unrstand why he talks the way he do is the subject of a new documentary, Do I Sound Gay?

THIS IS WHY SOME MEN ‘SOUND GAY’ – EVEN IF THEY’RE NOT

* gay camp voice *

Apart om anythg else, ’s not the prerve of gay men or even human begs.

WHAT'S THE LK BETWEEN HOMOSEXUALY AND HAVG A 'GAY VOICE'

People wh stereotypilly high-pched or ‘mp’ voic n fd people assumg that they’re gay, acrdg to one Amerin film-maker - even if they aren’t. Likewise, men wh ep voic n fd themselv wrongly assumed to be beg straight. * gay camp voice *

They’re then asked to rate each one by perceived “gayns”. And y, the stretchg out of “sibilant” nsonants such as s and z (image Kenh Williams sayg “She sells sea shells on the sea shore” and you’re sort of there) what about gay women?

THE GAY VOICE

There are a few theori knockg around as to why this might be: Arnold Zwicky, his mply tled 1994 paper Two Lavenr Issu for Lguists, suggts that: “For many lbians, what is most important is intifitn wh the muny of women – while for many gay men, what is most important is distancg themselv om straight men. First: there is a style of speakg that people associate wh gay men. Send: not all gay men e , and some straight men do.

Third: this style of speakg isn’t simply an importatn of “feme” quali to male speech, although that appears to be what a lot of people, we’re still left wh the qutn of why a gay male voice might emerge.

But, lguistilly speakg, soundg gay is really no different om soundg street, soundg posh or soundg like a bro.

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