New Trends Gay Male Relatnships: The Choic Study - ETR

Contents:

• GAY STRAIGHT COMMUNITNGAY STRAIGHT COMMUNITN
• THE GAY VOICE
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY SIGNALG, OM HANKY S TO THAT 'WHAT GAY GUYS ARE ACTUALLY LIKE' VIO
• NEW TRENDS GAY MALE RELATNSHIPS: THE CHOIC STUDY
• STEP-BY-STEP INSTCTNS FOR SHOOTG YOUR SHOT WH GAY GUYS

GAY STRAIGHT COMMUNITNGAY STRAIGHT COMMUNITN

IntroductnPerceivg and Communitg Sexual OrientatnGaydarFacial CuGa, Gtur, and Body CuVol CuMultiple CuCurrent Debate About AccuracySexual Orientatn and Interpersonal InteractnsNon-Verbal BehavrVerbal BehavrHomophobic LanguageSelf-DisclosureConclnOpen Qutns and Future DirectnsFurther ReadgReferenc. Gay Straight CommunitnFab FasoliCentre for Psychologil Rearch and Social Interventn (ISCTE), Lisbon Universy Instute.

The growg acceptance of gay relatnships ma a difference too, Greif have a lot more ways to munite now too, Greif says. Sexual orientatn refers to the endurg physil, romantic and/or emotnal attractn to members of the same and/or other genrs, cludg lbian, gay, bisexual and straight orientatns. As GLAAD not, "Transgenr people may be straight, lbian, gay, bisexual or queer.

A person who transns om female to male and is attracted solely to men would typilly intify as a gay man.

THE GAY VOICE

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.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY SIGNALG, OM HANKY S TO THAT 'WHAT GAY GUYS ARE ACTUALLY LIKE' VIO

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.

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" at the unrlyg tensn of the scene stems om the ia that the men are only ee—or perhaps safe—to unleash their purt gay selv the pany of others like them. Halper wr How to be Gay.

NEW TRENDS GAY MALE RELATNSHIPS: THE CHOIC STUDY

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Only sce the begng of the 20th century has queer been ed to refer to people who intify as gay or lbian.

STEP-BY-STEP INSTCTNS FOR SHOOTG YOUR SHOT WH GAY GUYS

Is "homosexual" still e?

The standard fn of homosexual is “a person sexually attracted to people of one’s own sex. ” But, ’s typilly applied to men, and lbian is the term for a female homosexual.

GLAAD prefers that we don’t e the term homosexual bee ’s “aggrsively ed by anti-gay extremists to suggt that gay people are somehow diseased or psychologilly/emotnally disorred.