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THE GAY VOICE

We might thk we know what a gay person sounds like. But there are veats to the cliche — and ‘voice-shamg’ tells a lot more about our culture than do about the person speakg * sounds like a gay *

Why do some gay men “sound” gay?

DO YOU SOUND GAY? WHAT OUR VOIC TELL – AND WHAT THEY DON’T

People wh stereotypilly high-pched or ‘mp’ voic n fd people assumg that they’re gay, acrdg to one Amerin film-maker - even if they aren’t. Likewise, men wh ep voic n fd themselv wrongly assumed to be beg straight. * sounds like a 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.

THIS IS WHY SOME MEN ‘SOUND GAY’ – EVEN IF THEY’RE NOT

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Rogers and Smyth are also explorg the stereotyp that gay men sound effemate and are regnized by the way they speak.

YOU SOUND LIKE A GAY.

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

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. The straightt-soundg voice the study was fact a gay man, and the sixth gayt-soundg voice was a straight man.

“You don’t seem gay. I n’t easily pute what means to be gay if ’s not havg jt intified yourself wh that label.

‘WHO SOUNDS GAY?’

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You haven’t – at least that moment, at that party – exhibed the mannerisms lked many people’s mds wh male homosexualy. The notn you would be pleased to fd this out reveals an unthkg prejudice: how rehg is to meet a gay who don’t make a meal of .

Maybe I’m more “gay”.

WHO SOUNDS GAY?

In this mixtape of documentari, host Sarah Esoff tak you to rap battl, mosh ps, and songwrg ssns. We’ll explore non-bary inty through emo mic and trans history through a lost VHS tape. Sounds Gay tells stori of queer people whose liv have been transformed by mic. * sounds like a gay *

Y, seemg gay – broadly speakg, beg mp – is a way of holdg onelf, a way of drsg, but ’s large part a way of speakg. His qut to unrstand why he talks the way he do is the subject of a new documentary, Do I Sound Gay?

WHAT GAY SOUNDS LIKE: THE LGUISTICS OF LGBTQ MUNI

Apart om anythg else, ’s not the prerve of gay men or even human begs.

They’re then asked to rate each one by perceived “gayns”. And y, the stretchg out of “sibilant” nsonants such as s and z (image Kenh Williams sayg “She sells sea shells on the sea shore” and you’re sort of there) what about gay women?

There are a few theori knockg around as to why this might be: Arnold Zwicky, his mply tled 1994 paper Two Lavenr Issu for Lguists, suggts that: “For many lbians, what is most important is intifitn wh the muny of women – while for many gay men, what is most important is distancg themselv om straight men. First: there is a style of speakg that people associate wh gay men.

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Send: not all gay men e , and some straight men do. Third: this style of speakg isn’t simply an importatn of “feme” quali to male speech, although that appears to be what a lot of people, we’re still left wh the qutn of why a gay male voice might emerge. But, lguistilly speakg, soundg gay is really no different om soundg street, soundg posh or soundg like a bro.

Bee gay men have long been stigmatised, the voice is often a source of shame. After a bad breakup, “I started to fd myself repelled by gay voic...

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