Homosexual men who 'sound gay' al wh more discrimatn, study says

Contents:

• "DO I SOUND GAY?"
• GAY SOUND EFFECTS
• GAY SOUNDS
• 1980. GAY NOISE
• WHAT MEANS TO ‘SOUND GAY’
• MY GAY VOICE AND YOURS
• I'M GAY SOUND
• CHRIS GAY GUY SOUNDBOARD
• HA GAY - MEME SOUND EFFECT BUTTON FOR SOUNDBOARD
• GAY_
• HOMOSEXUAL MEN WHO ‘SOUND GAY’ AL WH MORE DISCRIMATN, STUDY SAYS
• SPEECH ATIC FEATUR: A COMPARISON OF GAY MEN, HETEROSEXUAL MEN, AND HETEROSEXUAL WOMEN

"DO I SOUND GAY?"

Through a seri of terviews and teractns wh Thorpe’s iends and relativ, a few celebri, and random strangers on the streets, we hear a spectm of perspectiv about what “sounds gay” and why soundg as such is perceived as bad.

GAY SOUND EFFECTS

Many of the gay men the film adm to beg que fortable wh the sounds of their voic, not fully unrstandg why Thorpe would feel so strongly about his voice that he would even vis a speech pathologist and a celebry vol traer to get rid of his “gay voice. ” However, most of the gay men the film were able to relate to the secury of havg a more feme voice and some even relled tim that their “gay soundg” voic (and general gay inti) had led to gettg bullied or worse. As psychology profsors and rearchers, the first thg that popped to our mds while watchg the film was the ncept of ternalized opprsn, particularly ternalized homophobia* (please see note below about the term “homophobia”), which may be fed as the negative attus that LGBTQ people have about themselv bee of their sexual orientatns.

In this regard for our LGBTQ brothers and sisters, rearch suggts that people velop ternalized homophobia bee they learned that beg different or genr nonnformg was bad (om their fai, iends, society general) and so they also learned not to love themselv. For example, thor David Sedaris talked about stanc which others may have prumed that he was heterosexual and he retrospectively ponrs what many gay men may also wonr: “Why do passg as straight make me feel good? This wispread societal margalizatn of the “gay voice” and pretty much everythg that is “gay” is very real, as most if not all of are socialized or tght to associate negativy, ferry, and “otherns” wh beg gay.

) n attt to this wispread homophobia as he has wnsed – and even participated – many such stanc of otherg, teasg, and bullyg gay men, pecially those who speak wh high-pched, highly-feme, and flamboyantly “gay voic. Rearch suggts that opprsn— this se homophobia or heterosexism—n be ternalized so eply that even those of who are most aware, most cril, and most “liberated” (or “lonized” as some other margalized peopl may refer to ) may still be affected by .

GAY SOUNDS

*Note: Instead of “homophobia, ” some folks may e the term “heterosexism” – and this se “ternalized heterosexism” – which has been argued to be a more appropriate term given that anti-LGBTQ prejudice is not jt an dividual-level, clil-soundg problem (as the term “phobia” impli), but is also a wispread form of opprsn that is rooted our culture, society, and stutns. It rais a plited discsn about gay pri, lgerg homophobia, disguised misogyny, and the extent to which we all alter the image that we prent to the the film begs, Thorpe is disturbed bee he realiz he don’t like his voice any more.

But so dog, v everyone to thk about what their own voice says about who they are, where they me om, and where they want to science of “the gay voice”To start wh, the stereotypil “gay voice” isn’t necsarily a study published 2003, Ron Smyth, a lguist at the Universy of Toronto, found that participants readily separated rerdgs of 25 diverse voic to those who “sound gay” and those who “sound straight.

In Smyth's study, people rrectly gused a man’s sexualy about 60 percent of the time, only a ltle better than another small study at the Universy of Hawaii, both gay and straight listeners were equally as likely to misclassify people as gay or straight. In fact, the straight men wh so-lled gay voic weren't aware that people thought they sound gay at turns out that what most people perceive as a stereotypil "gay voice" is jt a male voice that sounds more stereotypilly feme -- maly, higher pched and more melod. And that often has more to do wh the voic that a person intified wh as they grew up, rather than and other rearchers say some men, both gay and straight, velop more feme voic bee they are fluenced by women when they are young.

1980. GAY NOISE

If you've ever found yourself talkg to someone wh a different accent and gradually emulatg them, you're faiar wh the gay men, adoptg what's lled "mp" -- a theatril gay accent, like an old-school starlet -- n be a way of embracg their inty. However, the difference wasn’t the stereotypil “gay voice, ” but a tenncy to e a more ntemporary, pan-Amerin accent, rather than the old-fashned Mnota accent (like  the movie “Fargo") says that the gay men he terviewed may have wanted to nvey an inty that is more stylish and cuttg edge.

WHAT MEANS TO ‘SOUND GAY’

” shows that even men who are out and proud may still rry wh them some shame about havg a stereotypil “gay voice, ” even if those feelgs are Savage, a gay activist and thor, argu  the film that this is a natural nsequence of boys beg bullied for walkg and talkg a certa way when they are young. As Thorpe pots out the film, there have long been public entertaers or artists wh stereotypilly “gay voic” – Liberace or Tman Capote, for example -- but few people openly talked about their when characters wh “gay” mannerisms or voic appeared popular culture, they were sometim d wh negative or sid the 1940s on, Amerin film saw the rise of a sni, supercil, and vaguely gay villa, startg wh the manipulative Clifton Webb the tective noir film “Lra.

MY GAY VOICE AND YOURS

” That tradn of the effete, aristocratic villa has lived example, film historian Richard Barrs argu  the film that many of the Disney villas have simperg voic or mannerisms that are subtly – or not so subtly – stereotypilly gay, cludg Prce John "Rob Hood, " Sr "The Ln Kg, " and many more, In an terview, Thorpe poted out what he viewed as one particularly egreg example – the bad guy the 2012 Disney animated film “Wreck-It Ralph.

I'M GAY SOUND

I put together a short documentary about how actors--pecially men, whether they are gay or straight--are nsired by stg directors to have failed the send they “sound gay” (meang their voice do not nform to heteronormative stereotyp of masculy).

As long as there is an unchecked cultural phobia of “gay voic, ” --by which we really jt mean effemate male voic--we are all nmned to a PTSD-like state of hypervigilance, too aaid to blur the l of genr, our voic or any other area of our liv. This fascatg acunt of gays and lbians the mic dtry nsirs the liv of a host of performers-om Benjam Brten and John Cage to Bsie Smh and Janis Jopl, om Billy Strayhorn and Cecil Taylor to Sun Ra and the Pet Shop Boys.

CHRIS GAY GUY SOUNDBOARD

That silence, says Gill, is all the more problematic given that mor, sndal, and gossip the mic dtry-the most valued sourc of rmatn our society-have known about and discsed homosexualy mic for many, many years.

Gill’s revealg yet sensive treatment of the liv of a host of performers-om Benjam Brten and John Cage to Bsie Smh and Janis Jopl, om Billy Strayhorn and Cecil Taylor to Sun Ra and the Pet Shop Boys-mak public what has always been known but all too equently supprsed: that many of this century's greatt micians are gay.

HA GAY - MEME SOUND EFFECT BUTTON FOR SOUNDBOARD

A book for lovers of mic of all kds and of all kds of mic, Queer Nois is not simply the story of homosexualy the mic bs; is a very personal acunt of how one gay cric se himself, and by extensn, his culture relatn to mic and milogy the late twentieth century.

GreetgsHelloHello 2Saw Your Advertisement On Craigs ListYeah Hi My Name Is ChrisQutnsAre You Gog To Tell Me I'm Not NormalAre You Into Fetish If The Price Is RightCome On You Cant Cut Us SlackDo I Sound Like Someone That Can Hurt A FlyDo You Have Somethg Agast Gay PeopleHelloHello 2How Much Charge Per HourIs That A Gay ReferenceMaybe We Can Go Out For Frozen YogurtOkayOMG Are You Gog To Say That To MeWhat Are You Dog UhWhats Your NameWhy Are You DiscrimatgWould You Md Givg Me Jt The TipWould You Take A Dump On MeRponsAChrisDon’t Be SillyI Thk We Got Off On The Wrong FootI Wont Get Mad I PromiseLets Do The DoMe TooOk That's FeOkay Alright CoolRelaxStop It Stop Beg DifficultYou're A Kky OneInsultsYou're Gettg All Bch Mo On MeYou're Not Beg Very NiceComplimentsAnytime You Sound Really SweetIll Let You Touch My StaffMiscCall Me Your Dirty Ltle BchDomated Peed And Defited OnGoodbye You Ltle BchI Was Gettg Hot And BotheredI'm A Gay Guy Of The GayI'm About To ExploI'm An Inpennt Vendor For KYI'm Totally Tot Mc Goats ExcedIts Not That Bad Its Makg You GiddyJt The TipMy Staff Is Really Long And ThickNever Been Erect Bee Of A WomanOh My GawdOh My Gawd 2Oh Y Preach ItReally Really Long Thick StaffSimmer Down BerthaThats So Perfect Ive Been WagYa Silly GooseYa Silly Goose 2You Riled Me Up You Blue Balled MeGreetgsHelloHello 2Saw Your Advertisement On Craigs ListYeah Hi My Name Is ChrisQutnsAre You Gog To Tell Me I'm Not NormalAre You Into Fetish If The Price Is RightCome On You Cant Cut Us SlackDo I Sound Like Someone That Can Hurt A FlyDo You Have Somethg Agast Gay PeopleHelloHello 2How Much Charge Per HourIs That A Gay ReferenceMaybe We Can Go Out For Frozen YogurtOkayOMG Are You Gog To Say That To MeWhat Are You Dog UhWhats Your NameWhy Are You DiscrimatgWould You Md Givg Me Jt The TipWould You Take A Dump On MeRponsAChrisDon’t Be SillyI Thk We Got Off On The Wrong FootI Wont Get Mad I PromiseLets Do The DoMe TooOk That's FeOkay Alright CoolRelaxStop It Stop Beg DifficultYou're A Kky OneInsultsYou're Gettg All Bch Mo On MeYou're Not Beg Very NiceComplimentsAnytime You Sound Really SweetIll Let You Touch My StaffMiscCall Me Your Dirty Ltle BchDomated Peed And Defited OnGoodbye You Ltle BchI Was Gettg Hot And BotheredI'm A Gay Guy Of The GayI'm About To ExploI'm An Inpennt Vendor For KYI'm Totally Tot Mc Goats ExcedIts Not That Bad Its Makg You GiddyJt The TipMy Staff Is Really Long And ThickNever Been Erect Bee Of A WomanOh My GawdOh My Gawd 2Oh Y Preach ItReally Really Long Thick StaffSimmer Down BerthaThats So Perfect Ive Been WagYa Silly GooseYa Silly Goose 2You Riled Me Up You Blue Balled MeBt Chris ReactnsVios Featurg ChrisPsycho Store Break In Prank Jun 18, 2017 1.

6M viewsThis homophobic hardware store owner has a sign his store that says "No Gays Allowed" BlogsSubscribe To Ownage PranksDon’t miss out on the lghs, Exclive updat, Disunts, Early prank vio releas, and more! For example, study thors probed to whether people believe “when listeng to a person is possible to tect his/her sexual orientatn om his/her voice very quickly” or “gay/lbian people sound gay/lbian and there is not much they n do to really change that. In particular, beliefs that gay men and straight men have different voic that allow people to tect their sexual orientatn was lked to stigmatizatn, possibly explag why some heterosexual dividuals stigmatize gay-soundg men regardls of their sexualy.

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There's a lot to discs regardg the rults of the paper (Skorska et al, 2016): The rearchers were examg the possibily that a maternal immune rponse might play a key role the velopment of a homosexual orientatn mal. Effectively, then, the mother's immune system would (sometim) treat certa male protes produced by the fet as a foreign pathogen and attempt to attack , rultg out that uld clu a homosexual orientatn, but also fetal loss if the reactn was strong enough (i.

Already there is a lot to like about this hypothis on a theoretil level, as don't pos any hidn adaptive benefs for a homosexual orientatn (as such proposed benefs have not received sound empiril support historilly). The mothers were then classified further to one of five groups: those wh gay male only-children (n = 8), those wh gay male offsprg that had no olr brothers (n = 23), those wh gay male offsprg wh olr brothers (n = 23), those wh heterosexual male only-children (n = 11), and those wh heterosexual male offsprg wh siblgs (n = 61).

HOMOSEXUAL MEN WHO ‘SOUND GAY’ AL WH MORE DISCRIMATN, STUDY SAYS

As birth weight tends to crease over succsive pregnanci, the parisons were limed to first live-born sons only (n = 63); this left 4 gay male only-children, 7 gay mal wh no olr brothers, 14 heterosexual mal wh gay younger brothers, 10 heterosexual male only-children, and 28 heterosexual mal wh siblgs. While 's important to not get rried away wh this fdg given the relatively small sample size (I wouldn't put too much stock an N of 8), there is some suggtive evince here worth pursug further that somethg is atypil fetal velopment the se of gay male offsprg. Skorska et al (2016) pos that this might have somethg to do wh some mothers showg a greater immune rponse agast male offsprg, rultg more fetal loss, the rult beg that such mothers are both ls likely to have any children at all and more likely to have gay male children particular.

If mothers of gay men do not tend to have a greater rat of female-to-male offsprg, this would st some doubt on the explanatn (and, sce the only data I've heard reports that gay men tend to have more olr brothers, seems they would have noticed the sister pot by now if existed). On the other hand, if this is a more general immune reactn agast fetal bodi, regardls of their sex, we would not expect such a pattern ( might also predict that mothers takg immunosupprsants would be ls likely to have gay offsprg/misrry, but thgs are unlikely to be that simple owg to the fact that other effects would rult too).

To fill the gaps, we explored potential differenc atic featur of speech between homosexual and heterosexual native French men and vtigated whether the former showed a trend toward femizatn by parg theirs to that of heterosexual native French women.

SPEECH ATIC FEATUR: A COMPARISON OF GAY MEN, HETEROSEXUAL MEN, AND HETEROSEXUAL WOMEN

In addn to the fact that homosexuals exhib tras that differ om those of heterosexuals, has been shown that some of them, such as specific nral procs (LeVay, 1991; Savic, Berglund, & Ldstrom, 2005) or specific childhood behavrs (Alanko et al., 2010; Bailey & Zucker, 1995), displayed valu shifted toward those of the oppose sex, i. Although there is no clear evince that the mean fundamental equency differs between homosexual and heterosexual men (Gd, 1994; Lerman & Damsté, 1969; Munson et al., 2006b; Rendall et al., 2008; Rogers, Jabs, & Smyth, 2001; Smyth, Jabs, & Rogers, 2003; but see Baeck, Corthals, & Borsel, 2011), rults toward differenc pch modulatn patterns are more ntroversial: Some studi have found that homosexual men displayed greater variatns tonatn, wh valu shifted toward those of women (Baeck et al., 2011; Gd, 1994), while others did not fd any difference (Levon, 2006; Rogers et al., 2001). For stance, homosexual men produce higher peak equency and longer duratn valu for /s/ (Lville, 1998) and the speech characteristics are associated wh “gayer-soundg” voic by listeners (Mack & Munson, 2012).

Lastly, homosexual men seem to produce a more expand vowel space than heterosexual men for some specific vowels (Rendall et al., 2008), hyper-articulatn beg monly found female speech (Pierrehumbert et al., 2004) the atic speech featur, other characteristics uld vary wh sexual orientatn, such as vol breaths and roughns that are, rpectively, ptured by the harmonics-to-noise rat (HNR) and the jter. Although evince of a difference ttosterone levels between homosexual and heterosexual men is nsistent (Meyer-Bahlburg, 1977, 1984), ttosterone may still mediate the relatnship between sexual orientatn and the aforementned vol speech featur, which has received ltle attentn so far. Consequently, muni of homosexual men uld potentially differ their specific vol speech featur across different this ntext, the goal of the prent study was to provi further tails on the potential differenc between homosexual and heterosexual men’s speech an unrreprented populatn the lerature (i.

We vtigated the effect of sexual orientatn on four sexually dimorphic atic parameters (F0, F0-SD, jter, and HNR) and examed whether homosexual men’s vol characteristics showed a femizatn by parg theirs wh that of heterosexual women. To vtigate the effects of sexual orientatn and tt the hypothis of femizatn on the vol featur, we ed an explanatory variable lled “SexOr” that nsirs both sex and sexual orientatn wh three modali: heterosexual men, homosexual men, and heterosexual women. Thrholds of signifince were rrected for the number of mols and post hoc parisons g the Bonferroni orr to asss the overall difference on speech atic featur between heterosexual and homosexual men and to exame whether homosexual men’s vol featur are shifted toward those of women, we nducted a lear discrimant analysis (LDA).

RultsDcriptive statistics of all atic parameters and T-levels are shown Table 1 Dcriptive statistics of mean F0, F0-SD, jter, HNR, speakg time, and T-levels for heterosexual men and women and homosexual menFull size tableThe teractns between T-level and “SexOr” did not have a signifint effect on mean F0 (F(2, 150) = 2. Vertil solid l reprent the mean of each group (NHeterosexual men = 48; NHomosexual men = 58, Nwomen = 54)Full size imageDiscsnThis study offers an tertg take on the teractn between sexual orientatn and atic featur of speech a French speaker sample. Consistent wh prev fdgs English-speakg populatns, no signifint differenc were observed mean F0 between French-speakg heterosexual and homosexual men (Gd, 1994; Lerman & Damsté, 1969; Munson et al., 2006b; Rendall et al., 2008; Rogers et al., 2001; Smyth et al., 2003).

The relatnship between pch variatns and sexual orientatn was prevly found one Dutch (Baeck et al., 2011) and one Amerin-English populatn (Gd, 1994), suggtg that femized pch variatns might be characteristic of male homosexual speech across languag (but see Levon, 2006).

Further vtigatns are neverthels need to nfirm if such a difference pch variatns between homosexual and heterosexual men is enough to be ed as a cue for asssg sexual our knowledge, this is the first study to report an associatn between men’s vol breaths and sexual orientatn.

80 dB), further rearch should tt whether is perceptible by listeners to asss male sexual orientatn and whether homosexual men’s voic, which are richer harmonics pared to those of heterosexuals, are perceived as more attractive among homosexual our study, T-levels did not fluence any of the atic parameters vtigated. For stance, exposure to prenatal ttosterone has been suggted to be rponsible for the differenc between homosexual and heterosexual men on a large range of characteristics such as physlogil and behavral tras cludg speech characteristics (Balthazart, 2017; Ehrhardt & Meyer-Bahlburg, 1981). Several studi have th tted whether the 2D:4D rat (relative length of the send and fourth digs), a proxy of ttosterone prenatal exposure differs between homosexual and heterosexual men (Balthazart, 2017; Ehrhardt & Meyer-Bahlburg, 1981).