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In a new documentary, a gay man tri to change the sound of his voice and wonrs why, exactly, he thks he should.

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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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David Thorpe’s cultural exploratn of the ‘gay voice’ mak cheerful viewg * do i sound gay review *

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?

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This documentary, wrten and directed by David Thorpe, dissects the stereotype of the so-lled gay voice. * do i sound gay review *

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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 *

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). Movi|Review: ‘Do I Sound Gay?

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A DOCUMENTARIAN WONRS: 'DO I SOUND GAY?'

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? 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.

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Liberace and Pl Lyn are ced as embodiments of the flamboyant gay qutn of why the mannerisms of so many gay men f a stereotype is asked but never satisfactorily answered, partly bee the movie ncentrat on voic and ignor overall behavr. One gay man who grew up wh brothers who were athlet ascrib his straight-actg body language to his sports-md fay. Or is the sire to be untectable a maniftatn of shame and ternalized homophobia?

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