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Contents:

• DO I SOUND GAY?
• DO I SOUND GAY? REVIEW – HIGHLY PERSONAL DOCUMENTARY
• REVIEW: ‘DO I SOUND GAY?’ EXAM A MANNER OF SPEAKG
• DO I SOUND GAY?
• A DOCUMENTARIAN WONRS: 'DO I SOUND GAY?'

DO I SOUND GAY?

Do I Sound Gay?

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DO I SOUND GAY? REVIEW – HIGHLY PERSONAL DOCUMENTARY

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A cheerful, highly personal vtigatn to queer cultural inty, Do I Sound Gay? He asks assorted iends, experts and entertaers for their take on the meang and origs of what we thk of as the morn “gay voice”, while warily takg a urse of speech trag to learn to “-swch, but volnally” (I’m not sure what means, but volv him walkg around New York mutterg “tilapia, tilapia”) the terviewe are the imably voiced humorist David Sedaris (“Do I really sound like a woman? Thorpe’s exploratn ultimately sh as much light on US homophobia as do on gay inty self, and he ends up, as you might expect, strikg a very Amerin note of self-affirmatn (“Maybe I was jt tryg to rennect, ” he nclus).

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REVIEW: ‘DO I SOUND GAY?’ EXAM A MANNER OF SPEAKG

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Directed by David ThorpeDocumentaryNot Rated1h 17mJuly 9, 2015David Thorpe’s engagg personal documentary, “Do I Sound Gay?, ” tipto to treachero waters, where stirs up a few rippl before gracefully backg out. Not so long ago, mockery of the sissy queen stereotype, wh a limp wrist, a mcg ga and a lisp was a surefire lgh getter for edians like Bob Hope, who ma cel sport of perceived knows how many men have been bullied, beaten up or even murred for maniftg telltale ditns of gayns?

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DO I SOUND GAY?

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Sedaris, who says he has been mistaken for a woman on the telephone, nfs that he feels good when someone tells him, “I didn’t know you were gay, ” and adds somewhat sheepishly, “I thought I was beyond that. His disvery of how many gay men share his anxiety and disfort leads him to greater self-acceptance.

A DOCUMENTARIAN WONRS: 'DO I SOUND GAY?'

Fdg himself sudnly sgle and his 40s, filmmaker David Thorpe cis to take a ep dive to his psyche, tryg to figure out what means to be a morn gay man. Specifilly, DO I SOUND GAY?

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