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Contents:
- THIS IS WHY SOME MEN ‘SOUND GAY’ – EVEN IF THEY’RE NOT
- SOUNDG GAY, PUNK, OR JOCK: WHAT LANGUAGE SAYS ABOUT YOUR SOCIAL GROUP
- NAM LIKE GAY (BOY, GIRL & MORE)
THIS IS WHY SOME MEN ‘SOUND GAY’ – EVEN IF THEY’RE NOT
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What do mean to sound Gay!?
People tell me I sound gay. What do “gay” even sound like?
SOUNDG GAY, PUNK, OR JOCK: WHAT LANGUAGE SAYS ABOUT YOUR SOCIAL GROUP
People wh stereotypilly high-pched or ‘mp’ voic n fd people assumg that they’re gay, acrdg to one Amerin film-maker - even if they aren’t. Likewise, men wh ep voic n fd themselv wrongly assumed to be beg straight. * meaning of that sounds gay *
But what about soundg gay? Unlike speech patterns tied to ethnicy, class, or tn, ’s not somethg I picked up tomatilly sce I didn’t really know any gay people growg up. For me at least—and I’m certaly not gog to speak for everyone—I sound gay the same way that I drs like a dork.
Gettg back to soundg gay, then … when I thk about creatg my own inty, I make choic about how to prent myself to the world. And one of those styl is “gay man” (actually, I’m aimg for “queer hot dad style, ” but succs has so far been tenuo). Lguistilly, “gay style” has been lked to a lot of different featur, cludg more varied pch (“sg songy”), longer “S” sounds (or a “lisp”), clearer releas of stop nsonants (“precise enunciatn”), and even a falsetto voice.
NAM LIKE GAY (BOY, GIRL & MORE)
People tell me I sound gay. And I totally do. * meaning of that sounds gay *
But none of the have to be prent for someone to sound gay, and any one feature by self wouldn’t do much.
For example, a longer pronunciatn of “S” nsonants all by self won’t make you sound gay any more than a Sex Pistols T-shirt all by self would make you look punk. But the ntext of a whole sue of the signifiers, we n hear somethg like my “precise enunciatn” as soundg gay, even if among other signifiers, we might terpret the same thg as “soundg ted, ” “soundg picky, ” or even “soundg Jewish.
In this mixtape of documentari, host Sarah Esoff tak you to rap battl, mosh ps, and songwrg ssns. We’ll explore non-bary inty through emo mic and trans history through a lost VHS tape. Sounds Gay tells stori of queer people whose liv have been transformed by mic. * meaning of that sounds gay *
So, if you happen to hear me on the rad or tch me on YouTube one day and you’re like, “Oh yeah, du sounds hella gay.