Michael Schulman on “Do I Sound Gay?,” a documentary by David Thorpe that explor how vol nc are associated wh sexualy.
Contents:
- 1. “GRIMLY GAY”
- FIGUR OF GAY SPEECH
- IS THERE A “GAY VOICE”?
- LGBTQA GROUP TALKS “GAY” FIGUR OF SPEECH
- SPEECH ATIC FEATUR: A COMPARISON OF GAY MEN, HETEROSEXUAL MEN, AND HETEROSEXUAL WOMEN
1. “GRIMLY GAY”
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For example, the field of poetry, Wilied Owen scrib, the poem The Send-Off the fac of war-bound soldiers as “grimly gay”, two words which one would hardly associate together. In this ntext, Owen emphasis the ntradictn between the ner feelgs of the war-bound soldiers, and their outward appearance: the grim outlook they bear towards the apparent doom that awas them at the ont l of war, and how they put on brave and as Owen stat, “gay” onts, to mask their apprehensn.
Although historians pot out ad nseam the so-lled appropriatens of applyg morn nstcts such as "gay, " "bisexual, " "homosexual, " or "queer" to an ancient kg like Alexanr, no ser historian doubts that history's penultimate warrr-monarch was attracted to men.
FIGUR OF GAY SPEECH
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Hodg wr that Alan Turg was the "founr of puter science, mathematician, philosopher, breaker, strange visnary and a gay man before his time.
By enablg Brish telligence to Enigma msag, Alan Turg also enabled the Alli to feat the Adolf Hler World War, the Brish ernment "thanked" Turg for his wartime efforts by arrtg him 1952 for the "crime" of homosexualy. Soon after beg chemilly strated by orr of a Brish urt as punishment for beg gay, Turg died by suici, gtg cyani, addn to ventg morn putg, Turg also nceptualizied and created a scientific tt for nfirmg artificial telligence. The Universy of Illois at Sprgfield's Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, Qutng, and Allied Rource Office offers a tratg, however technilly accurate, asssment of the sexual ambiguy of the legendary sculptor and pater of the ceilg at the Siste Chapel Rome.
Pietro Areto’s suggtns of perasty), there is no clear evince of Michelangelo’s homosexualy or, at least, none ditg overt sexual activy, " reads an entry at the universy's webse. Gtgs is creded wh leadg the succsful movement to change the psychiatric and psychologil profsns' view of homosexualy as a mental pathology.
IS THERE A “GAY VOICE”?
Beg one of the natn's first openly gay elected officials, Milk was the standard-bearer of what durg his time was lled the gay liberatn movement. Before he was assassated 1978, along wh San Francis Mayor Gee Masne, Milk helped stave off a nservative backlash agast LGBT equaly the form of the so-lled Briggs Iniative, which would have barred gay people om teachg California's public was elected to the San Francis Board of Supervisors 1977.
Sce Milk's victory, hundreds of LGBT ndidat have been elected across the were a few out gay and lbian ndidat elected before Milk, cludg Elae Noble to the Massachetts Hoe of Reprentativ and Kathy Kozachenko to the Ann Arbor, Mich., Cy Council, both 1974.
LGBTQA GROUP TALKS “GAY” FIGUR OF SPEECH
For weeks 1997, Ameri wonred and ABC's publicy partment fueled speculatn about whether or not DeGener's character would follow the lead of the real-life lbian who played her by g wh clever humor cludg a gag about receivg a ee kchen appliance for exg the closet (an obv reference to the age-old homophobic notn that the LGBT muny "recs" members), the wily viewed g-out episo of Ellen ma televisn history — and ma a lghg natn measurably more fortable wh and acceptg of gay people general. As a member of the Massachetts Hoe of Reprentativ, the first bill he troduced, 1973, was to ban antigay discrimatn hog, employment, and public acmodatns. Famo for his quote about the need for uny among mory muni, transplanted Br Harry Hay found the Mattache Society 1950, one of the morn world's first anizatns for gay men.
" After more than a away om activism, Hay returned to his work fightg for LGBT equaly by foundg the Los Angel chapter of the Gay Liberatn Front. Dpe his personal undog followg his arrt, nvictn, and sentence of two years hard labor for the "crime" of homosexualy (technilly, "gross cency"), the wrer of classics such a The Importance of Beg Earnt and The Picture of Dorian Gray remas one of the wrten word's most famo and celebrated artists. Not long after Thorpe broke up wh his boyiend, he began thkg about the way he speaks, and the way other gay men speak, and why both sudnly bothered him so much.
SPEECH ATIC FEATUR: A COMPARISON OF GAY MEN, HETEROSEXUAL MEN, AND HETEROSEXUAL WOMEN
He terviews gay public figur, cludg David Sedaris, Tim Gunn, Don Lemon, and Gee Takei, who have had to listen to themselv for a livg. Gay adolcents, Thorpe pots out, often learn that the “tell” of their sexualy is their voic, even more so than physily—a limp wrist is easier to straighten out than an flectn.