Rearchers say homosexual men who believe their voice "sounds gay" nscly make an effort to be "more vigilant" social suatns.
Contents:
- THIS IS WHY SOME MEN ‘SOUND GAY’ – EVEN IF THEY’RE NOT
- THE GAY VOICE
- WHO SOUNDS GAY?
- DO YOU SOUND GAY? WHAT OUR VOIC TELL – AND WHAT THEY DON’T
- A DOCUMENTARIAN WONRS: 'DO I SOUND GAY?'
- HOMOSEXUAL MEN WHO ‘SOUND GAY’ AL WH MORE DISCRIMATN, STUDY SAYS
- WHO SOUNDS ‘GAY’?
THIS IS WHY SOME MEN ‘SOUND GAY’ – EVEN IF THEY’RE NOT
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. * straight guys who sound gay *
Why do some gay men “sound” 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.
Rogers and Smyth are also explorg the stereotyp that gay men sound effemate and are regnized by the way they speak. 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 GAY VOICE
This short documentary explor the reasons that some men sound stereotypilly gay, whether they are or not. * straight guys who sound gay *
The straightt-soundg voice the study was fact a gay man, and the sixth gayt-soundg voice was a straight man. Tle: Who Sounds “Gay“? Summary: This short documentary explor one theory of why some people sound stereotypilly “gay.
I’ve always wonred why some men sound gay and others don’t. 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.
WHO SOUNDS GAY?
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 * straight guys who sound gay *
People want gay men to be like women and maybe they picked up on the fact that many of the characteristics of gay- soundg voic are feme characteristics but they’ve got all wrong.
DO YOU SOUND GAY? WHAT OUR VOIC TELL – AND WHAT THEY DON’T
In a new documentary, a gay man tri to change the sound of his voice and wonrs why, exactly, he thks he should. * straight guys who sound gay *
Bee a lot of those gay-soundg voic are om straight guys.
I knew I was gay when I was like 11.
Do I have a gay voice? The big problem i have is when people assume I’m not [gay] and then I’m anx are they gog to say somethg stupid? In the end, if someone thks I’m gay, then they’re wrong...
A DOCUMENTARIAN WONRS: 'DO I SOUND GAY?'
* straight guys who sound gay *
CMV: Many straight men would sound like the stereotypil "gay voice" if they didn't force their voice the be eper. “You don’t seem gay.
HOMOSEXUAL MEN WHO ‘SOUND GAY’ AL WH MORE DISCRIMATN, STUDY SAYS
I n’t easily pute what means to be gay if ’s not havg jt intified yourself wh that label.
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’?
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?