Beyond lispg - Co Swchg and Gay Speech Styl

Contents:

• EMEM AND THE “GAY LISP”
• GAY LISP
• IS THERE A “GAY VOICE”?
• THE PREVALENCE OF LISPG GAY MEN
• GAYDAR—SENDG MIXED SIGNALS
• GAY SPEECH AND LISPG
• STUDY SE ROOTS OF 'GAY LISP' BOYHOOD
• SCIENTISTS EXPLANED WHERE THE ‘GAY LISP’ STEREOTYPE ME OM
• THE GAY LISP?

EMEM AND THE “GAY LISP”

I am a gay man and this is drivg me crazy bee other aspects of the stereotypil "gay voice" are intifiable (even though they are still homophobic, I at least know what people are referrg to when they talk about them). Wele back to “Ask a Homo, ” Outward’s no-judgement answer service for all your qutns on LGBTQ polics, culture, etiquette, language, and other queer nundms.

GAY LISP

This week, Bryan Lowr n-sth-irs the li-sth-p and other elements of the “stereotypil gay manner of speakg”—and honey, ’s jt fabulo! It’s this associatn, wh what I lled heightened or stereotypil “femy”, that has given rise to the wispread scriptn of hi-f sibilants or onted s/z as a “gay lisp”. Clearly ’s te that hi-f sibilants are ed by some gay men, throughout the English speakg world and, to some extent, beyond .

IS THERE A “GAY VOICE”?

A Brish example of a well-known gay man wh hi-f sibilants is Harry Derbidge om the TV realy soap The Only Way Is Essex. The gay character Kurt Hummel on TV’s Glee has hi-f sibilants, but to my ear they’re ls nsistently so the terview speech of Chris Colfer, the (gay) actor who plays him. He not only “-swch” between pla and hi-f sibilants, but the hi-f variety an aggrsive “macho” genre which has been acced of sexism and homophobia.

So although the “gay” associatn may have predomated people’s mds, hi-f sibilants seem to have been around unnoted hip hop for s. The prent study examed the popular stereotype that gay men lisp by evaluatg to what extent listeners associated ntal or ontal articulatn/lispg wh gayns.

THE PREVALENCE OF LISPG GAY MEN

Based on the ratgs of the listeners of the prent study, lispg speakers were signifintly more often judged to be homosexual. The rults of this study nfirmed prev prelimary fdgs that suggted that ontal or ntal articulatn/lispg is a feature that listeners associate wh gayns.

[quote]What gays sometim have is a hissssssy "s" soundPossibly om our tryg to emulate what our schools' speech therapists tried to get to 4th gra when we were pulled out of class to go read the word "stove" over and over until we got "right" Anonymoreply 10May 15, 2022 5:24 AM. 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.

GAYDAR—SENDG MIXED SIGNALS

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. Even wh the gay datg muny (and gay porn), hyper-masculy is habually prized, so self-disgt gets easily turned back outward.

GAY SPEECH AND LISPG

Thorpe talks to a straight iend who sounds “gay” (he grew up on an ashram, surround by women), and a gay iend who sounds “straight” (he has jock brothers). “For many gay men, that’s the last vtige, that’s the last chunk of ternalized homophobia, is this hatred of how they sound, ” Dan Savage tells Thorpe.

STUDY SE ROOTS OF 'GAY LISP' BOYHOOD

One of the ways gay people tend to pensate, the film suggts, is to adopt the supercil speech patterns of the leisure class, i. The CNN anchor Don Lemon tells Thorpe that he worked harr to ntralize his Southern black accent than his “gay” accent.

SCIENTISTS EXPLANED WHERE THE ‘GAY LISP’ STEREOTYPE ME OM

As gays and lbians ga cultural pal, helped along by equaly victori like the one jt hand down by the Supreme Court, “gay voice” will surely evolve, too.

THE GAY LISP?

Two clicians who were unaware of the specific purpose of the study and the populatns volved judged randomized d-rerdgs of 175 gay mal, 100 heterosexual mal and 100 heterosexual femal for the prence of lispg durg readg of a standardized text.