Do you sound gay? What our voic tell – and what they don’t | David Shariatmadari | The Guardian

Contents:

• PARTS OF SPEECH FOR GAY
• THE GAY VOICE
• DO YOU SOUND GAY? WHAT OUR VOIC TELL – AND WHAT THEY DON’T
• IS THERE A “GAY VOICE”?
• GAY DICTNARY
• GAY OR STRAIGHT? HIS SPEECH MAY GIVE A HT
• SPEECH ATIC FEATUR: A COMPARISON OF GAY MEN, HETEROSEXUAL MEN, AND HETEROSEXUAL WOMEN

PARTS OF SPEECH FOR GAY

Ined, two of the first LGBTQ s to ever be nsired by the Supreme Court were challeng to ernment efforts to censor publitns discsg gay and lbian subject matter for vlatg obsceny laws. In s rangg om prohibns on gay bars to refal to regnize queer stunt groups, urts began to regnize the right of LGBTQ people to ngregate, socialize, and anize for the purpose of exprsg their opns. Moreover, to the extent such lawsus require urts to grapple wh the fact that one’s genr inty and exprsn may be divorced om certa blogil ponents (namely, external genalia), the challeng have the potential to te urts about transgenr, tersex, and genr-nonnformg inti, much as the early First Amendment obsceny s forced urts to nont gay and lbian sexualy.

THE GAY VOICE

For example, one school punished a stunt and forba him om wearg a T-shirt ntag a rabow ichthys—known popularly as the “sign of the fish” or “J fish, ” a Christian symbol—and the slogan “J Is Not a Homophobe.

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.

DO YOU SOUND GAY? WHAT OUR VOIC TELL – AND WHAT THEY DON’T

And y, the stretchg out of “sibilant” nsonants such as s and z (image Kenh Williams sayg “She sells sea shells on the sea shore” and you’re sort of there) what about gay women? There are a few theori knockg around as to why this might be: Arnold Zwicky, his mply tled 1994 paper Two Lavenr Issu for Lguists, suggts that: “For many lbians, what is most important is intifitn wh the muny of women – while for many gay men, what is most important is distancg themselv om straight men.

IS THERE A “GAY VOICE”?

Third: this style of speakg isn’t simply an importatn of “feme” quali to male speech, although that appears to be what a lot of people, we’re still left wh the qutn of why a gay male voice might emerge.

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GAY DICTNARY

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis cricized laws that crimalize homosexualy as “unjt, ” sayg God lov all his children jt as they are and lled on Catholic bishops who support the laws to wele LGBTQ people to the church. Francis acknowledged that Catholic bishops some parts of the world support laws that crimalize homosexualy or discrimate agast the LGBTQ muny, and he himself referred to the issue terms of “s. Gay rights advot say the antiquated laws are ed to harass homosexuals, and pot to new legislatn, such as the “Don’t say gay” law Florida, which forbids stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty krgarten through third gra, as evince of ntued efforts to margalize LGBTQ people.

The Uned Natns has repeatedly lled for an end to laws crimalizg homosexualy outright, sayg they vlate rights to privacy and eedom om discrimatn and are a breach of untri’ obligatns unr ternatnal law to protect the human rights of all people, regardls of their sexual orientatn or genr inty. In 2019, Francis had been expected to issue a statement opposg crimalizatn of homosexualy durg a meetg wh human rights groups that nducted rearch to the effects of such laws and so-lled “nversn therapi.

Gay adolcents, Thorpe pots out, often learn that the “tell” of their sexualy is their voic, even more so than physily—a limp wrist is easier to straighten out than an flectn.

GAY OR STRAIGHT? HIS SPEECH MAY GIVE A HT

EnciclopædiaHow to say gayOne of the most important parts of the Moss Color project is the creatn of a dictnary wh the majory of the words and exprsns ed to attack sexual diversy, formed by a Gay Dictnary, a Lbian Dictnary and an LGBT Gay Dictnary is posed by 68 dictnari rrpondg to each of the piled languag, wh more than 1500 terms and exprsns that speak of sex and love between men, and that sometim also speak of bisexual men and transgenr and Maricón are words that we expla the Gay makg ofOur dictnari are not a mere llectn of words piled whout rhyme or reason the work and prted texts. In others, though, the task is almost objective of the Gay DictnaryHowever, this task is always excg, pecially when, behd a word, we fd a door to an unknown world that tells the tth about the way thgs happened a certa time. Bee our aim wh the gay and lbian dictnary is not to make a llectn of words, but to show that what we unrstand and thk about the maniftatns of sexual diversy is nothg more than a social nstctn, relative to a space-time perd, which speaks of a human characteristic that is sexual diversy, the only thg that do not change.

There is also variety the type of words, some are sultg exprsns, others belong to the gay muny self and others to more specific jargon such as those of prisons or tck Use of the Gay DictnaryIn our dictnari we have piled words belongg to many untri, some offensive, some cur. Select any language the si menu to learn more is the most universal and ternatnal way of namg homosexual men, that is, men who show an clatn towards the erotic-affective relatnship wh dividuals of the same sex. VariatnsAlthough the word "gay" is an ternatnal term, adaptatns have been ma to several languag, as are the exampl of: "gej" (Albanian, Slovak, Polish and Serbian), "ge" (Bengali), "gai" (Spanish, Valencian and Catalan), "gēi-lóu" (Che), "ge-i" (Korean), "gei" (Estonian), "hoyw" (Welsh), "gėj" (Lhuanian), "гей" (Rsian) and "ke" (Thai).

SPEECH ATIC FEATUR: A COMPARISON OF GAY MEN, HETEROSEXUAL MEN, AND HETEROSEXUAL WOMEN

ClassifitnSce the very appearance of homophobia to the choice of the word gay as a posive term the 20th century, all the words ed were pejorative exprsns that n be grouped to the followg tegori:1) Sexual and stologil subject: words like "bæsjdytter" (fec pher Norwegian), "fai i" (ass fucker Tongan) and "monmon" (he who sucks cks while is beg perated Visayan language).