What the way we talk says about gay pri and lgerg prejudice
Contents:
- THE GAY VOICE
- THIS IS WHY SOME MEN ‘SOUND GAY’ – EVEN IF THEY’RE NOT
- CHRIS GAY GUY SOUNDBOARD
- A DOCUMENTARIAN WONRS: 'DO I SOUND GAY?'
- IS THERE A “GAY VOICE”?
- WHAT MEANS TO ‘SOUND GAY’
THE GAY VOICE
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The actors playg the clever clock each film are both gay! David Ogn Stiers, om the first movie and s sequels, me out 2009, sayg that he was gay and “very proud to be so.
Ian McKellen, om the remake, me out as gay over 30 years ago, sayg of the experience, “Life at last begs to make sense, when you are open and hont. " He ially refed to nfirm or ny the assumptns about his sexualy, claimg that if people knew that he was gay, would e them to view his characters differently.
THIS IS WHY SOME MEN ‘SOUND GAY’ – EVEN IF THEY’RE NOT
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He put mors to rt an terview wh the Advote 2010, referrg to himself as a “gay guy. Raya and the Last Dragon has sparked nversatn the gay muny due to Raya’s ambiguo sexualy and the actrs's queer dg. While Kristoff p for Anna, Groff himself only has ey for men, which he nfirmed 2009, to a reporter who asked if he was gay.
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CHRIS GAY GUY SOUNDBOARD
In a new documentary, a gay man tri to change the sound of his voice and wonrs why, exactly, he thks he should. * gay guy voices *
The voice st offers addnal diversy, as featur a gay man, Graham Norton, who plays Moonwd, a spirual sign spner. Norton didn’t know any gay people when he was growg up, which ma difficult for him to accept his sexualy. After g out 2013, she has said that she don’t want to be lled gay.
A DOCUMENTARIAN WONRS: 'DO I SOUND GAY?'
Michael Schulman on “Do I Sound Gay?,” a documentary by David Thorpe that explor how vol nc are associated wh sexualy. * gay guy voices *
The voice behd Francis’s worker Slim brgs another LGBTQ+ touch to the film, as he is gay. David Hy Pierce has been wh his hband, Brian Hargrove, sce 1983, but he didn’t e out as gay to the public until 2007.
She once wrote a journal as a young teenager, “I am gay. As Cys, Rh ma history as the first person to say the words “I’m gay” on the Disney Channel.
IS THERE A “GAY VOICE”?
She is a strong proponent for gay adoptn rights, pecially after a foster child was removed om her home simply due to O’Donnell’s relatnship wh her female partner at the time. Romeo and Juliet is a classic heterosexual love story, but the voice behd Gnomeo’s bt iend Benny Disney’s versn of the tale, Gnomeo and Juliet, brought a b of a gay touch to the st.
Matt Lus has known he was gay sce he was 7 years old, after sayg to a iend, "Don't you thk sometim men are handsome?
WHAT MEANS TO ‘SOUND GAY’
Why do some gay men “sound” gay? After intifyg phoic characteristics that seem to make a man’s voice sound gay, their bt hunch is that some gay men may subnscly adopt certa female speech patterns. They want to know how men acquire this manner of speakg, and why – pecially when society so often stigmatiz those wh gay-soundg voic.
Rogers and Smyth are also explorg the stereotyp that gay men sound effemate and are regnized by the way they speak. They asked people to listen to rerdgs of 25 men, 17 of them gay. Perhaps fewer than half of gay men sound gay, says Rogers.