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.
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!?
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 *
People tell me I sound gay. What do “gay” even sound like? 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.
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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. 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.
Sounds Gay tells stori of queer people whose liv have been transformed by mic.
Her “gay mom” Renée is 74. The mician -- Black, gay and a fixture the mimalist classil mic scene of the 1970s and 80s -- wrote songs that mand a lot of the listener. One name that has been fallg out of favor recent years is “Gay.