Abstract This paper explor what factors ntribute to distguishg gay soundg and straight man soundg speech; lguistic gnate or social knowledge and whether the genr of listeners also term abily intifitn. To answer the qutns, 286 participants were classified by natnaly to 3 groups of participants: Thai listeners as a ntrol group, Zhuang, and Other listeners. They were asked to listen to 12 voice stimuli Thai om straight and gay men and intify the genr of the speakers. The oute revealed that the accuracy rate intifyg a speaker’s genr varied among the 3 groups of listeners wh Thai listeners srg the hight genr intifitn, followed by the Others and Zhuang rpectively. This dit that social knowledge gaed om one’s prence Thailand is more important than lguistic gnate. Genr intifitn may have been ma based on the expectatn of the ‘typil’ social scene such as the high visibily of gay men Thailand. The rults also suggt that genr of the listeners do not have a signifint bearg on the abily to differentiate gay and straight male voic." name="scriptn
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ANOTHER MOTHER TONGUE : GAY WORDS, GAY WORLDS
TRIANGLE CLASSICS, ILLUMINATING THE GAY AND LESBIAN EXPERIENCE. Wner of the 1985 Gay Book Award of the Amerin Library Associatn, Judy Grahn’s “Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds” is a wondro terweavg of lbian and gay cultural history, tobgraphy, mythology, etymology, spirualy, and rual.
Spanng centuri and across cultur, Grahn tours lbian and gay life on a self-scribed “shashay down the lavenr trail”.
She vers a remarkable range -om Amazon queens to Celtic fairi; om tribal-kg sacrific of Europe and Asia to ntemporary vlence agast gay men; om the signifince of the lor purple and rabows to the origs of “butch” and “femme”. Aleong the way, Grahn draws om her own life and sets herself the larger ntext of people and events the morn gay and lbian movement. Powerful also, Grahn’s exactgly tailed sistence of the everprence of an ancient and ntno gay culture, “Another Mother Tongue” is more than gay history, more than tobgraphy… It is a book of disvery and celebratn, of pa and urage, of humor and love” says SOYOURNER.
ANOTHER MOTHER TONGUE: GAY WORDS, GAY WORLDS
For lbian poet Grahn, homosexualy is not a behavr (""scratchg is a behavr"")--but ""a way of beg... ANOTHER MOTHER TONGUE: Gay Words, Gay Worlds. "" Blendg rearch mythology, etymology, and history wh personal remiscence, Grahn exam the ponents of gay culture: the words (dik, fairi, faggots); the symbols (fger rgs, mp clothg, the lor green); the participants--cludg a drag queen; the history--among the Greeks, the Amerin Indians, Ai and Cha.
Discsg the homosexual unrground, Grahn alters Adrienne Rich's ncept of ""pulsory heterosexualy"" to the ""illn of heterosexualy""--cg a medil-lab cint which one of six workers told an anti-gay joke and all six lghed, though all but the teller were gay. "" Grahn hop to see lbians crossg over ""to relign, science, and technology, takg other women as well as pro-woman and pro-nature perspectiv wh them""; but she also mak a nvcg se for the distctive, ntug qualy of gay culture: ""at s heart [] is ntually... "" Prented whout apologi or fens: accsible and tertg to gays and straights alike.