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.

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. 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?

THE GAY VOICE

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.

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.

When dis, a subversive dance movement that spoke to black people and women and gays, broke through, was vilified by mastream rock lovers for beg ksch and plastic. 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.

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

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. 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.

IS THERE A “GAY VOICE”?

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). 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). On the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO-T), 17 May, we ll on all lears the world to ensure that all people n speak their mds whout fearg vlence or timidatn, no matter what their sexual orientatn or genr inty.

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GAY DICTNARY

When people hear a man talk and gus he’s gay, they’re really listeng to how he says his vowels, suggts new past studi, rearchers have rerd homosexual and heterosexual men speakg long passag om texts of plays, and tt subjects were pretty accurate pickg out the gay voic among Eric Tracy, a psychologist at Oh State Universy, wanted to see jt how ltle rmatn people need before they ma up their md about if a speaker was gay. He rerd a group of 36 gay and straight men speakg sgle syllable words, like “mass” and “soap, ” and played back to a tt group of men and tt subjects − volunteer llege stunts — ranked each speaker on a sle om 1 to 7, to reprent their gus about the speaker’s sexual orientatn: gay (7 pots) or not (1 pot).

Tracy found that his tt subjects tend to perceive gay speech differently based on short words, he cid to look closer, to zero  on which part of the word was the trigger for the cisn. “When the vowel h, people were pretty sure, ” said Nicholas Sentar, a -thor on the Tracy's scriptn, vowels spoken by gay men sound longer, and one sound that threw the listeners for a loop was the letter "s. So, while they picked out the gay speakers rrectly, they also tend to rrectly pick the straight Rendall, a psychologist at the Universy of Lethbridge Alberta, Canada, warns that the study mak the assumptn that there is such a thg as “gay speech, ” and that the tt subjects were rpondg to trac of the flamboyant dialogue that has bee the generalizatn and stereotype for how gay men is one of the issu that Tracy plans to addrs possible future studi.

GAY OR STRAIGHT? HIS SPEECH MAY GIVE A HT

Even if do reprent a small subsectn of gay people, Tracy says his study might fd applitn plac like tomated voice regnn software, which uld e a few tweaks when to regnizg flavors and accents of male and Sentar prented their study on Monday at the nference of the Atil Society of Ameri Seattle. To fill the gaps, we explored potential differenc atic featur of speech between homosexual and heterosexual native French men and vtigated whether the former showed a trend toward femizatn by parg theirs to that of heterosexual native French women. Rults showed that homosexual men displayed signifintly higher pch modulatn patterns and ls breathy voic pared to heterosexual men, wh valu shifted toward those of heterosexual women.

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

Keywords: Speech, Voice, Atics, Sexual orientatn, Ttosterone levels, Genr atypilyIntroductnThe genr atypily hypothis suggts that genr atypil tras homosexuals uld be ed as cu to dite sexual orientatn. In addn to the fact that homosexuals exhib tras that differ om those of heterosexuals, has been shown that some of them, such as specific nral procs (LeVay, 1991; Savic, Berglund, & Ldstrom, 2005) or specific childhood behavrs (Alanko et al., 2010; Bailey & Zucker, 1995), displayed valu shifted toward those of the oppose sex, i.