Is There a “Gay Voice”? | The New Yorker

Contents:

• ENGLISH PRONUNCIATN OF GAY
• THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
• GAY RIGHTS AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH
• THE GAY VOICE
• WHAT DO IT MEAN TO SOUND GAY?
• DO FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL VLATE THE FIRST AMENDMENT?
• IS THERE A “GAY VOICE”?

ENGLISH PRONUNCIATN OF GAY

There was a recent high profile story the news about an 11-year-old boy who mted suici, apparently bee he uld no longer tolerate beg lled “gay.

THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Many anti-bully activists sist that anti-bully laws should specifilly mentn sults agast gays and those of non-heterosexual orientns. If be a crime to sult people, then, is hoped, no one will be attacked wh the “gay” sult, and the associated vlence will disappear. One of the problems wh makg illegal to ll someone “gay” is that vlat the First Amendment right to Freedom of Speech.

If people get punished for sultg gays, do you thk they are gog to thk, “Now I rpect gays so much bee I was punished”? If we go to school together, are the same class, and I always treat you this way, you may even bee my iend even though you hate gays.

" The ia that I may be gay disturbs me and I don’t want to adm that I am unsure about my sexual orientatn. Scenar Number Five: I’m not gay, and you e to tell me that other people are spreadg a mor that I am.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE

You are gog to keep on tormentg me, and you are not gog to have rpect eher for me or for gay people general. I may also want to e the opportuny for a “teachg moment, ” so I’ll ask you:] How do you feel about gays? And you will certaly stop tryg to torment me for beg gay bee your efforts to torment me won’t work.

GAY RIGHTS AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH

They may not know their own te sexual orientatn yet, and they may not even know the sexual meang of the word “gay. Acrdg to one letter om 2001 the Los Angel Tim, the source is Dorothy Parker (1893–1967), a wty member of the Algonqu Round Table, who equently ved gay men to fashnable soiré durg the 1920s and 1930s. Daniel Harris’s The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture (1997) matas that Garland (1922–1969) served as a “lostone” for gay culture: “When Judy me onto the stage, we were the loust and most exuberant part of that dience.

Dee Michel’s Friends of Dorothy: Why Gay Boys and Gay Men Love ​The Wizard of Oz (2018) expands the spe to expla gay culture’s fascatn wh more than Garland—but the land of Oz self.

Mickey Weems the Qualia Encyclopedia of Gay People not that Harvey Milk adopted this same exprsn to mpaign agast a proposed California iative that would have banned gays om workg public schools. Weems also pots out that “to drop a hoe on somebody” is gay folk speech for “gettg even wh an offensive person.

THE GAY VOICE

The character of the Cowardly Ln, portrayed by Bert Lahr a manner that some crics have termed effemate or stereotypilly gay.

WHAT DO IT MEAN TO SOUND GAY?

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More about Adam LiptakA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 12 of the New York edn wh the headle: Crics Are Qutng a Seemgly Fake Document a Recent Gay Rights Case. From the social clubs and civil rights societi of the 1950s and 1960s to the lbian and gay rights groups of the 1970s, people have e together to raise awarens of gay and lbian issu.

DO FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL VLATE THE FIRST AMENDMENT?

Mattache was specifilly formed for eedom of speech and civil rights, such as the right to be a homosexual and not be fired om a job bee of one's sexual orientatn. Then on the hot night of Friday, June 27, 1969 New York Cy, a spark l the powr keg when police attempted to raid a gay bar, enforcg state or cy laws that rtricted most behavr and drs for lbians and homosexuals.

Ten years after Stonewall, the first natnally-anized mass of lbian and gay people took to the streets of Washgton D. Participants me groups, such as Lbians of Color, and gay and lbian groups om stat and ci, such as Charlotte, NC, and as dividuals. The event clud a long list of speakers, cludg Audre Lor, Allen Gsburg, Congrsman Ted Weiss, the District of Columbia, and anizatns such as Parents and Friends of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG).

Beg "out" at work or spected of beg lbian or gay - there are some laws to protect employe through the work of gay rights activists. Bisexual men are perceived to sound more mascule than men who are straight, acrdg to a study of Atralian subjects.Amics at the Universy of Sydney pared the voic of gay, straight and bisexual men a study volvg 160 people.In the rearch led by clil psychologist Jam Morandi, people were reced to analyse the voic of 60 men, 20 of whom were gay, 20 straight and 20 bisexual. They were then asked to rate the men on their sexual orientatn g a sle om zero (exclively heterosexual) to 10 (exclively homosexual).Listeners were also asked to rate each man’s perceived level of femy or masculy the voic on a siar sle.The men volved the study were asked to rerd themselv on a smartphone recg the first two l of the Atralian natnal anthem.Voice sampl were then modified to remove any background noise while volume levels were ma the same to ensure nsistency.Rults om the study showed listeners uld distguish between gay and straight men’s voic wh an accuracy of 62 per cent, apparently nsistent wh prev rearch.However, the study participants uld not terme any differenc between bisexual and straight men’s voic wh any gree of accuracy.

IS THERE A “GAY VOICE”?

The thors said their rearch showed bisexual men’s voic were perceived as beg more exclively attracted to women pared wh both gay and straight men’s voic.Bisexual men’s voic were rated as more mascule than both gay and straight men’s voic.Rearchers claimed the abily to intify a man’s bisexual inty om his voice alone uld have cril social implitns such as helpg to rce feelgs of alienatn.‘Voice may unter visibily many bisexuals feel’An abstract of the study, tled Can listeners tect if a man is bisexual om his voice alone, reads: “The prent study examed whether bisexual men n be intified om their voic ak to how gay men n be intified on their voice alone.“If this is the se, voice may be an important target of discrimatn on the one hand but may also unter the visibily many bisexuals feel (if their bisexual inti n be apprehend by their voice alone, whout explic disclosure required).“The fdgs may also she light on whether bisexual male voic, like gay male voic, differ om straight voic terms of their genr non-nformy – a qutn that to date has not been examed.”But amics noted the rearch was limed on the grounds all men who participated the study are Atralian, which may not be reflected among wir cultur.And the thors nced the study did not ntrol for the rerdg environment or microphone-to-mouth distance, which uld have affected the qualy of the voice sampl.The thors said the fdgs suggted that while the voic of bisexual men the sample were perceived as more mascule and attracted to femal, listeners did not associate this imprsn wh bisexualy.As a rult, while bisexual men may appear to be at lower risk of facg voice-based intifitn and discrimatn than gay men, they may often be mistaken as beg straight.The study was published the Journal of Sex Rearch.