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Contents:
- MY GAY VOICE
- GUY BRANUM ON TE LOVE, GAY OPEN RELATNSHIPS, AND PRI AND PREJUDICE
- GUY BRANUM: A FUNNY GAY VOICE WE NEED TO LISTEN TO
MY GAY VOICE
* my gay voice by guy branum main argument *
”I am a gay man, and that means I do not like the sound of my own voice. Also, all children sound gay.
Straight people love to pot out that gay people do not look distctly different om straight people.
GUY BRANUM ON TE LOVE, GAY OPEN RELATNSHIPS, AND PRI AND PREJUDICE
Gay ic Guy Branum is wrer for The Mdy Project and thor of the book "My Life As A Godss: A Memoir Through Unpopular Culture." * my gay voice by guy branum main argument *
The ia that gays would be fe if we jt hated ourselv to zombie facsi of straight people is gross. I’m one of the gay guys whose voic always marked as men outsi masculy. A gay voice, a tly, magnificently gay voice, isn’t jt a weakns, though.
We so equently hear that straight people don’t have a problem wh gays; they jt don’t unrstand why we have to “sound like that.
Gays are a small, diffe, physilly visible mory. It tak other gay people for to have sex, but also for other, ls basic operatns of inty. Usg our voic, we bee a culture and a nearly anywhere the world that isn’t a gay bar, we mt assume the people around are straight.
GUY BRANUM: A FUNNY GAY VOICE WE NEED TO LISTEN TO
Intifyg other gay people is a lite science. So gay male culture mands that we be able to blend to the wallpaper when we need to, but also that we be pable of makg ourselv very known other suatns. This means we fear our own voic, and we fear other gay men’s voic even more.
Gay people so often fear other gay voic, voic we nnot ntrol reprentg our shared experienc and world, but bee so much is unsaid, we also hunger for our world to be scribed wh granur, wh men don’t like art about beg gay. ” So many gay men love leral mirrors, bee a mirror (or Instagram acunt), you are simply an image that n be groomed to distguishabily om straightns. This is why I hate my voice and the voic of other gay men.