Who sounds ‘gay’? | MPR News</tle><script type="applitn/ld+json">{"@ntext":","@type":"NewsArticle","maEntyOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"},"headle":"Who sounds ‘gay’?","image":["],"datePublished":"2015-06-23T12:30:25+00:00","dateModified":"2019-07-14T06:31:54.000Z","scriptn":"For the last few years, David Thorpe has wonred why some men 'sound gay.' I began askg people for their thoughts on the subject, and received a surprisg range of answers.","thor":{"@type":"Person","name":"Bob Colls"},"publisher":{"@type":"Organizatn","name":"MPR News","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"}}}</script><meta name="mpr-ntent-topic" ntent="NewsCut"/><meta name="tle" ntent="Who sounds ‘gay’?"/><meta name="twter:tle" ntent="Who sounds ‘gay’?"/><meta property="og:tle" ntent="Who sounds ‘gay’?"/><meta name="scriptn" ntent="For the last few years, David Thorpe has wonred why some men 'sound gay.' I began askg people for their thoughts on the subject, and received a surprisg range of answers."/><meta name="twter:scriptn" ntent="For the last few years, David Thorpe has wonred why some men 'sound gay.' I began askg people for their thoughts on the subject, and received a surprisg range of answers."/><meta property="og:scriptn" ntent="For the last few years, David Thorpe has wonred why some men 'sound gay.' I began askg people for their thoughts on the subject, and received a surprisg range of answers."/><meta name="twter:image" ntent="><meta property="og:image" ntent="><meta property="og:image:width" ntent="676"/><meta property="og:image:height" ntent="380"/><lk rel="nonil" href="><meta property="og:url" ntent="><meta property="og:type" ntent="article"/><meta name="twter:dnt" ntent="on"/><meta name="google-se-verifitn" ntent="3mdQkyZQ0hy2oLHqV_shtyaKyvb-xVslxgr2kdV8RQw"/><meta property="fb:pag" ntent="99142348590"/><meta name="next-head-unt" ntent="34"/><lk rel="prennect" href=" crossorig /><lk rel="preload" href="/_next/static/css/" as="style"/><lk rel="stylheet" href="/_next/static/css/" data-n-g=""/><noscript data-n-css=""></noscript><script fer="" nomodule="" src="/_next/static/chunks/"></script><script src="/_next/static/chunks/" fer=""></script><script src="/_next/static/chunks/" fer=""></script><script src="/_next/static/chunks/" fer=""></script><script src="/_next/static/chunks/pag/" fer=""></script><script src="/_next/static/chunks/" fer=""></script><script src="/_next/static/chunks/" fer=""></script><script src="/_next/static/chunks/" fer=""></script><script src="/_next/static/chunks/" fer=""></script><script src="/_next/static/chunks/pag/story/" fer=""></script><script src="/_next/static/H4jcB6LSVdAFFKlKkDkpf/" fer=""></script><script src="/_next/static/H4jcB6LSVdAFFKlKkDkpf/" fer=""></script><style data-href=">@font-face{font-fay:'Crimson Pro';font-style:alic;font-weight:200;font-display:swap;src:url() format('woff')}@font-face{font-fay:'Crimson Pro';font-style:alic;font-weight:400;font-display:swap;src:url() format('woff')}@font-face{font-fay:'Crimson Pro';font-style:alic;font-weight:700;font-display:swap;src:url() format('woff')}@font-face{font-fay:'Crimson Pro';font-style:normal;font-weight:200;font-display:swap;src:url() format('woff')}@font-face{font-fay:'Crimson Pro';font-style:normal;font-weight:400;font-display:swap;src:url() format('woff')}@font-face{font-fay:'Crimson Pro';font-style:normal;font-weight:700;font-display:swap;src:url() format('woff')}@font-face{font-fay:'IBM Plex Sans Connsed';font-style:alic;font-weight:500;font-display:swap;src:url() format('woff')}@font-face{font-fay:'IBM Plex Sans Connsed';font-style:normal;font-weight:500;font-display:swap;src:url() format('woff')}@font-face{font-fay:'Crimson Pro';font-style:alic;font-weight:200;font-display:swap;src:url() format('woff2');uni-range:U+0102-0103,U+0110-0111,U+0128-0129,U+0168-0169,U+01A0-01A1,U+01AF-01B0,U+0300-0301,U+0303-0304,U+0308-0309,U+0323,U+0329,U+1EA0-1EF9,U+20AB}@font-face{font-fay:'Crimson Pro';font-style:alic;font-weight:200;font-display:swap;src:url() format('woff2');uni-range:U+0100-02AF,U+0304,U+0308,U+0329,U+1E00-1E9F,U+1EF2-1EFF,U+2020,U+20A0-20AB,U+20AD-20CF,U+2113,U+2C60-2C7F,U+A720-A7FF}@font-face{font-fay:'Crimson Pro';font-style:alic;font-weight:200;font-display:swap;src:url() format('woff2');uni-range:U+0000-00FF,U+0131,U+0152-0153,U+02BB-02BC,U+02C6,U+02DA,U+02DC,U+0304,U+0308,U+0329,U+2000-206F,U+2074,U+20AC,U+2122,U+2191,U+2193,U+2212,U+2215,U+FEFF,U+FFFD}@font-face{font-fay:'Crimson Pro';font-style:alic;font-weight:400;font-display:swap;src:url() format('woff2');uni-range:U+0102-0103,U+0110-0111,U+0128-0129,U+0168-0169,U+01A0-01A1,U+01AF-01B0,U+0300-0301,U+0303-0304,U+0308-0309,U+0323,U+0329,U+1EA0-1EF9,U+20AB}@font-face{font-fay:'Crimson Pro';font-style:alic;font-weight:400;font-display:swap;src:url() format('woff2');uni-range:U+0100-02AF,U+0304,U+0308,U+0329,U+1E00-1E9F,U+1EF2-1EFF,U+2020,U+20A0-20AB,U+20AD-20CF,U+2113,U+2C60-2C7F,U+A720-A7FF}@font-face{font-fay:'Crimson Pro';font-style:alic;font-weight:400;font-display:swap;src:url() format('woff2');uni-range:U+0000-00FF,U+0131,U+0152-0153,U+02BB-02BC,U+02C6,U+02DA,U+02DC,U+0304,U+0308,U+0329,U+2000-206F,U+2074,U+20AC,U+2122,U+2191,U+2193,U+2212,U+2215,U+FEFF,U+FFFD}@font-face{font-fay:'Crimson Pro';font-style:alic;font-weight:700;font-display:swap;src:url() format('woff2');uni-range:U+0102-0103,U+0110-0111,U+0128-0129,U+0168-0169,U+01A0-01A1,U+01AF-01B0,U+0300-0301,U+0303-0304,U+0308-0309,U+0323,U+0329,U+1EA0-1EF9,U+20AB}@font-face{font-fay:'Crimson Pro';font-style:alic;font-weight:700;font-display:swap;src:url() format('woff2');uni-range:U+0100-02AF,U+0304,U+0308,U+0329,U+1E00-1E9F,U+1EF2-1EFF,U+2020,U+20A0-20AB,U+20AD-20CF,U+2113,U+2C60-2C7F,U+A720-A7FF}@font-face{font-fay:'Crimson Pro';font-style:alic;font-weight:700;font-display:swap;src:url() format('woff2');uni-range:U+0000-00FF,U+0131,U+0152-0153,U+02BB-02BC,U+02C6,U+02DA,U+02DC,U+0304,U+0308,U+0329,U+2000-206F,U+2074,U+20AC,U+2122,U+2191,U+2193,U+2212,U+2215,U+FEFF,U+FFFD}@font-face{font-fay:'Crimson Pro';font-style:normal;font-weight:200;font-display:swap;src:url() format('woff2');uni-range:U+0102-0103,U+0110-0111,U+0128-0129,U+0168-0169,U+01A0-01A1,U+01AF-01B0,U+0300-0301,U+0303-0304,U+0308-0309,U+0323,U+0329,U+1EA0-1EF9,U+20AB}@font-face{font-fay:'Crimson Pro';font-style:normal;font-weight:200;font-display:swap;src:url() format('woff2');uni-range:U+0100-02AF,U+0304,U+0308,U+0329,U+1E00-1E9F,U+1EF2-1EFF,U+2020,U+20A0-20AB,U+20AD-20CF,U+2113,U+2C60-2C7F,U+A720-A7FF}@font-face{font-fay:'Crimson Pro';font-style:normal;font-weight:200;font-display:swap;src:url() format('woff2');uni-range:U+0000-00FF,U+0131,U+0152-0153,U+02BB-02BC,U+02C6,U+02DA,U+02DC,U+0304,U+0308,U+0329,U+2000-206F,U+2074,U+20AC,U+2122,U+2191,U+2193,U+2212,U+2215,U+FEFF,U+FFFD}@font-face{font-fay:'Crimson Pro';font-style:normal;font-weight:400;font-display:swap;src:url() format('woff2');uni-range:U+0102-0103,U+0110-0111,U+0128-0129,U+0168-0169,U+01A0-01A1,U+01AF-01B0,U+0300-0301,U+0303-0304,U+0308-0309,U+0323,U+0329,U+1EA0-1EF9,U+20AB}@font-face{font-fay:'Crimson Pro';font-style:normal;font-weight:400;font-display:swap;src:url() format('woff2');uni-range:U+0100-02AF,U+0304,U+0308,U+0329,U+1E00-1E9F,U+1EF2-1EFF,U+2020,U+20A0-20AB,U+20AD-20CF,U+2113,U+2C60-2C7F,U+A720-A7FF}@font-face{font-fay:'Crimson Pro';font-style:normal;font-weight:400;font-display:swap;src:url() format('woff2');uni-range:U+0000-00FF,U+0131,U+0152-0153,U+02BB-02BC,U+02C6,U+02DA,U+02DC,U+0304,U+0308,U+0329,U+2000-206F,U+2074,U+20AC,U+2122,U+2191,U+2193,U+2212,U+2215,U+FEFF,U+FFFD}@font-face{font-fay:'Crimson Pro';font-style:normal;font-weight:700;font-display:swap;src:url() format('woff2');uni-range:U+0102-0103,U+0110-0111,U+0128-0129,U+0168-0169,U+01A0-01A1,U+01AF-01B0,U+0300-0301,U+0303-0304,U+0308-0309,U+0323,U+0329,U+1EA0-1EF9,U+20AB}@font-face{font-fay:'Crimson Pro';font-style:normal;font-weight:700;font-display:swap;src:url() format('woff2');uni-range:U+0100-02AF,U+0304,U+0308,U+0329,U+1E00-1E9F,U+1EF2-1EFF,U+2020,U+20A0-20AB,U+20AD-20CF,U+2113,U+2C60-2C7F,U+A720-A7FF}@font-face{font-fay:'Crimson Pro';font-style:normal;font-weight:700;font-display:swap;src:url() format('woff2');uni-range:U+0000-00FF,U+0131,U+0152-0153,U+02BB-02BC,U+02C6,U+02DA,U+02DC,U+0304,U+0308,U+0329,U+2000-206F,U+2074,U+20AC,U+2122,U+2191,U+2193,U+2212,U+2215,U+FEFF,U+FFFD}@font-face{font-fay:'IBM Plex Sans Connsed';font-style:alic;font-weight:500;font-display:swap;src:url() format('woff2');uni-range:U+0460-052F,U+1C80-1C88,U+20B4,U+2DE0-2DFF,U+A640-A69F,U+FE2E-FE2F}@font-face{font-fay:'IBM Plex Sans Connsed';font-style:alic;font-weight:500;font-display:swap;src:url() format('woff2');uni-range:U+0102-0103,U+0110-0111,U+0128-0129,U+0168-0169,U+01A0-01A1,U+01AF-01B0,U+0300-0301,U+0303-0304,U+0308-0309,U+0323,U+0329,U+1EA0-1EF9,U+20AB}@font-face{font-fay:'IBM Plex Sans Connsed';font-style:alic;font-weight:500;font-display:swap;src:url() format('woff2');uni-range:U+0100-02AF,U+0304,U+0308,U+0329,U+1E00-1E9F,U+1EF2-1EFF,U+2020,U+20A0-20AB,U+20AD-20CF,U+2113,U+2C60-2C7F,U+A720-A7FF}@font-face{font-fay:'IBM Plex Sans Connsed';font-style:alic;font-weight:500;font-display:swap;src:url() format('woff2');uni-range:U+0000-00FF,U+0131,U+0152-0153,U+02BB-02BC,U+02C6,U+02DA,U+02DC,U+0304,U+0308,U+0329,U+2000-206F,U+2074,U+20AC,U+2122,U+2191,U+2193,U+2212,U+2215,U+FEFF,U+FFFD}@font-face{font-fay:'IBM Plex Sans Connsed';font-style:normal;font-weight:500;font-display:swap;src:url() format('woff2');uni-range:U+0460-052F,U+1C80-1C88,U+20B4,U+2DE0-2DFF,U+A640-A69F,U+FE2E-FE2F}@font-face{font-fay:'IBM Plex Sans Connsed';font-style:normal;font-weight:500;font-display:swap;src:url() format('woff2');uni-range:U+0102-0103,U+0110-0111,U+0128-0129,U+0168-0169,U+01A0-01A1,U+01AF-01B0,U+0300-0301,U+0303-0304,U+0308-0309,U+0323,U+0329,U+1EA0-1EF9,U+20AB}@font-face{font-fay:'IBM Plex Sans Connsed';font-style:normal;font-weight:500;font-display:swap;src:url() format('woff2');uni-range:U+0100-02AF,U+0304,U+0308,U+0329,U+1E00-1E9F,U+1EF2-1EFF,U+2020,U+20A0-20AB,U+20AD-20CF,U+2113,U+2C60-2C7F,U+A720-A7FF}@font-face{font-fay:'IBM Plex Sans Connsed';font-style:normal;font-weight:500;font-display:swap;src:url() format('woff2');uni-range:U+0000-00FF,U+0131,U+0152-0153,U+02BB-02BC,U+02C6,U+02DA,U+02DC,U+0304,U+0308,U+0329,U+2000-206F,U+2074,U+20AC,U+2122,U+2191,U+2193,U+2212,U+2215,U+FEFF,U+FFFD}</style></head><body><div id="__next" data-reactroot=""><div class="hearContaer"><hear class="hear is-closed" data-ttid="hear"><a class="hear_logo" data-ttid="relativeLk" href="/"><div class="hear_logoImg"><svg width="235px" height="32px" class="" viewBox="0 0 235 32" xmlns=" xmlns:xlk="><tle>MPR News</tle><g id="235x32" stroke="none" stroke-width="1" fill="none" fill-le="evenodd"><path fill="#ffffff" d="M33.9,0.8v30.2h-7.2l0.5-21.5l0.1-3l-0.3,1.1c-0.4,1.7-0.4,1.9-0.8,3.2l-5.7,20.3H14L8.5,11.6L7.1,6.2 C7.3,8.6,7.3,9.1,7.4,12l0.4,19.1H0.5V0.8h11.1l4.6,17l1.1,4.8c0.4-2.1,0.5-2.3,0.8-3.7l4.8-18.1H33.9z"></path><path fill="#ffffff" d="M40.2,0.8h12.2c5,0,9.4,0,12,3.8c1.2,1.7,1.7,4.2,1.7,6.2c0,1.7-0.3,3.3-1,4.7c-2.6,5.4-8.2,5.5-12.3,5.6h-5 v9.9h-7.6V0.8z M47.7,6.4v9.2h4.5c2.8,0,6.3-0.1,6.3-4.8c0-4.4-3.8-4.4-6-4.4H47.7z"></path><path fill="#ffffff" d="M69.7,0.8h13.6c3.2,0,7.1,0.1,9.9,3.1c1.4,1.6,2.4,4,2.4,6.7c0,6.1-4.2,7.6-6.2,8.4l7,12.1H88l-6-10.8h-4.8 v10.8h-7.6V0.8z M77.2,6.5v8.2h6.3c1.1,0,4.5-0.1,4.5-4.2c0-3.9-2.8-4-4.4-4H77.2z"></path><path fill="#4298b5" d="M109.6,3.7c0.9-0.9,1.4-1.6,3-2.3c1.4-0.6,3.3-1.1,5.4-1.1c1.8,0,3.8,0.3,5.3,1.2c3.1,1.7,3.9,4.3,3.9,9v20.4 h-8.7V14c0-2.7-0.1-3.7-0.4-4.5c-0.7-1.6-2.2-2.3-3.9-2.3c-4.6,0-4.6,3.7-4.6,7.4v16.1h-8.8V1.1h8.9V3.7z"></path><path fill="#4298b5" d="M160.9,23.2c-1,1.5-2.1,3-3.6,4.5c-2.6,2.4-6.5,4.2-11.3,4.2c-8.9,0-15.1-5.7-15.1-15.4 C131,9.3,134.5,0,146.3,0c1.8,0,6.9,0.2,10.7,4.3c3.9,4.2,4.1,10,4.2,13.4H140c-0.1,3.7,2.1,7.4,6.8,7.4c4.8,0,6.5-3.1,7.5-5.3 L160.9,23.2z M152.2,12.2c-0.2-1.3-0.4-2.9-1.7-4.2c-1.1-1.1-2.7-1.7-4.3-1.7c-2.1,0-3.6,1-4.5,1.9c-1.2,1.3-1.5,2.7-1.8,3.9 H152.2z"></path><path fill="#4298b5" d="M170.8,1l4.2,20.9L179.5,1h9.4l4.1,21l4.7-21h9.1l-8.9,29.8h-9.5l-4.4-19.9l-4.5,19.9h-9.7L161.5,1H170.8z"></path><path fill="#4298b5" d="M211.3,20.8c2.4,2.3,5.4,4.1,8.7,4.1c2.1,0,5.3-0.7,5.3-2.9c0-1-0.6-1.4-1.1-1.7c-1.3-0.7-3.4-0.9-5.1-1.1 c-1.3-0.2-2.7-0.5-4-0.9c-1.8-0.5-3.7-1.3-5-2.6c-1.3-1.3-2.2-3.4-2.2-5.6c0-4.9,4.2-10,12.6-10c7,0,11.3,3,13.3,4.5l-5.4,5 c-2.8-2.2-5.4-3-7.5-3c-3.4,0-4.2,1.4-4.2,2.2c0,1.7,1.9,2.1,4.7,2.6c6,1.1,13,2.7,13,9.8c0,7-7.1,10.5-14.1,10.5 c-8.3,0-12.6-4-14.5-5.8L211.3,20.8z"></path></g></svg><span class="visible">MPR News</span></div></a><div class="hear_navBg" data-ttid="hear-closenav"></div></hear></div><div class="playerWrapper"><div id="player" class="player js-player is-live" role="regn" aria-label="Aud Player" data-src="[{"url":",{"url":"]"></div></div><ma class="ma"><div class="ntaer"><div class="ntentGrid unfed"><div class="ntentGrid_ma"><div id="mpr-mr-ads" class="ad"><div id="mpr-ad-1" class="ad_slot ad_slot-mr"></div></div><article class="ntent story"><hear class="ntent_hear"><div class="ntent_topic page-purpose" data-mpr-ntent-topic="NewsCut"><a class="lk lk-none" data-ttid="relativeLk" href="/newscut">NewsCut</a></div><h1 class="hdg hdg-1 hdg-headle">Who sounds ‘gay’?</h1><div class="ntent_meta"><div class="ntent_byle" data-ttid="ntentByle" data-mpr-thors="["Bob Colls"]"><a class="lk lk-pla" data-ttid="relativeLk" href="/people/bob-lls">Bob Colls</a></div><div class="ntent_pubdate"><time dateTime="2015-06-23T12:30:25+00:00">June 23, 2015 7:30 AM</time></div></div></hear><div class="ntent_wrapper"><div class="ntent_social"><div class="shareSocialButtons vList"><h3 class="hdg hdg-small">Share</h3><a href=" sounds ‘gay’?" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-label="Twter - lk opens a new tab" class="shareSocialButtons_twter twter"><svg class="in in-twter" xmlns=" xmlns:xlk=" width="28" height="24" viewBox="0 0 28 24"><tle>Twter</tle><path d="M8.7 23.4C19.2 23.4 25 14.4 25 6.6 25 6.3 25 6.1 25 5.8 26.1 5 27 4 27.8 2.8 26.8 3.2 25.7 3.6 24.5 3.7 25.7 3 26.6 1.8 27 0.4 25.9 1.1 24.7 1.6 23.4 1.9 22.4 0.7 20.9 0 19.2 0 16.1 0 13.5 2.6 13.5 5.9 13.5 6.4 13.6 6.8 13.7 7.3 9 7 4.7 4.7 1.9 1.1 1.4 2 1.2 3 1.2 4.1 1.2 6.1 2.2 7.9 3.7 9 2.8 8.9 1.9 8.7 1.1 8.2 1.1 8.3 1.1 8.3 1.1 8.3 1.1 11.2 3.1 13.6 5.7 14.1 5.2 14.2 4.7 14.3 4.2 14.3 3.8 14.3 3.5 14.3 3.1 14.2 3.8 16.5 5.9 18.3 8.4 18.3 6.5 19.9 4 20.8 1.4 20.8 0.9 20.8 0.4 20.8 0 20.8 2.5 22.4 5.5 23.4 8.7 23.4"></path></svg><span class="visible">Twter</span></a><a href=" sounds ‘gay’?sharer" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-label="Facebook - lk opens a new tab" class="shareSocialButtons_facebook facebook"><svg class="in in-facebook" xmlns=" xmlns:xlk=" width="13" height="25" viewBox="0 0 13 25"><tle>Facebook</tle><path d="M8.1 24.3L8.1 13.2 11.7 13.2 12.3 8.9 8.1 8.9 8.1 6.1C8.1 4.9 8.4 4 10.2 4L12.4 4 12.4 0.2C12.1 0.1 10.7 0 9.2 0 5.9 0 3.7 2 3.7 5.7L3.7 8.9 0 8.9 0 13.2 3.7 13.2 3.7 24.3 8.1 24.3Z"></path></svg><span class="visible">Facebook</span></a><a href="mailto:?subject=MPR News: Who sounds ‘gay’?&body=Check out this article om MPR News: target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-label="Email - lk opens a new tab" class="shareSocialButtons_email email"><svg width="24" height="24" class="in in-mail " viewBox="0 0 24 24" xmlns=" xmlns:xlk="><tle>Mail</tle><path d="M19.2,5.8H4.8A1.79,1.79,0,0,0,3,7.6V18.4a1.79,1.79,0,0,0,1.8,1.8H19.2A1.79,1.79,0,0,0,21,18.4V7.6A1.79,1.79,0,0,0,19.2,5.8Zm-.4,3.8L13,13.3a1.65,1.65,0,0,1-1.9,0L5.2,9.6A.62.62,0,0,1,4.8,9,.75.75,0,0,1,6,8.4l6,3.8,6-3.8a.78.78,0,0,1,1.2.6A.62.62,0,0,1,18.8,9.6Z"></path></svg><span class="visible">Email</span></a></div></div><div class="ntent_body erContent"><p>Why do some men "sound gay" and others "sound straight?"</p><p>It's the fascatg qutn asked today a New York Tim op-doc.</p><p>"Thk about the language environment of the fant, and the toddler, and the pre-school child, and the elementary-school age," says Benjam Munson of the Universy of Mnota's Department of Speech-Language-Hearg Scienc.</p><p></p><blockquote><p>Every one of is prented wh lots and lots of the mols of what language should sound like. So we hear men, we hear women, we hear kids our own age, we hear adults, we hear olr adults. And all of the teractns, we have different opportuni to emulate different aspects of those people's speech.</p></blockquote><p></p><figure class="figure figure-none figure-full"><picture class="" data-ttid="picture"><source type="image/eg" srcSet=" 400w, 600w, 692w" siz="(max-width: 47.999em) 99vw, 66vw" data-ttid="notwebp"/><img src=" alt="whosoundsgay"/></picture></figure><p>(<a class="apm-lk unfed" href=">Vio lk</a>)</p><p>"There’s no such thg as a fundamentally gay voice," filmmaker David Thorpe utns. "Plenty of men may sound gay, but their voic aren’t evince that they are gay. What we ll the 'gay voice' belongs to all.</p><div class="donateAsk unfed"><div class="donateAsk_hear"><h2 class="hdg hdg-2">Grow the Future of Public Media</h2></div><div class="donateAsk_body"><p>MPR News is supported by Members. Gifts om dividuals power everythg you fd here. Make a gift of any amount today to bee a Member!</p></div><div class="donateAsk_footer"><a href=" id="donate-ask-button" class="btn btn-primary" data-ttid="externalLk"> <!-- -->Donate Today<!-- --> <svg width="32" height="32" class="in in-heart " viewBox="0 0 32 32" xmlns=" xmlns:xlk="><tle>Heart

who sounds gay

What mak a man’s voice gay or straight? (Cute film clip)

Contents:

WHO SOUNDS GAY?

This short documentary explor the reasons that some men sound stereotypilly gay, whether they are or not. * who sounds gay *

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.

WHO SOUNDS ‘GAY’?

* who sounds gay *

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. Tle: Who Sounds “Gay“? Summary: This short documentary explor one theory of why some people sound stereotypilly “gay.

FILM CLUB | ‘WHO SOUNDS GAY?’

This short documentary explor the reasons that some men sound stereotypilly gay, whether they are or not. Read the story here: Produced… * who sounds gay *

I’ve always wonred why some men sound gay and others don’t.

‘WHO SOUNDS GAY?’

To me Kris sounds gay and Matt sounds straight.

The cleart most lady-like gay one.

And ’s not so much that a kid who is gog to be gay later life is gog to say I want to sound like a woman, so much as a kid is intifyg here is a particular speaker, and here is a particular of that person’s speech that ptur what I fd so engagg about them and I’m gog to emulate that.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* WHO SOUNDS GAY

Who Sounds Gay? .

TOP