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- 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?
Journalist David Thorpe nonts his anxiety over soundg gay by talkg to LGBT ins like Dan Savage and Gee Takei, and explorg the cultural history of the gay voice film and televisn. * do i sound gay review *
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Journalist David Thorpe nonts his anxiety over soundg gay by talkg to LGBT ins like Dan Savage and Gee Takei, and explorg the cultural history of the gay voice film and televisn. News & Interviews for Do I Sound Gay? Cric Reviews for Do I Sound Gay?
DO I SOUND GAY? REVIEW – HIGHLY PERSONAL DOCUMENTARY
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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). Movi|Review: ‘Do I Sound Gay?
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REVIEW: ‘DO I SOUND GAY?’ EXAM A MANNER OF SPEAKG
This documentary, wrten and directed by David Thorpe, dissects the stereotype of the so-lled gay voice. * do i sound gay review *
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? Even the post-Stonewall era, men perceived as gay are subject to btal Thorpe, who is gay, wrote, produced and directed the film, which he terviews close iends and gay celebri, cludg David Sedaris, Gee Takei, Dan Savage, Don Lemon and Tim Gunn about their voic. VioThe Brooklyn filmmaker discs his documentary “Do I Sound Gay?, ” about his qut to better unrstand his voice.
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DO I SOUND GAY?
Very personal docu explor gay stereotyp, self-disvery. Read Common Sense Media's Do I Sound Gay? review, age ratg, and parents gui. * do i sound gay review *
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A DOCUMENTARIAN WONRS: '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.