Sean Harris on gay men: What do limp wrists have to do wh homosexualy?

Contents:

• THE PREVALENCE OF LISPG GAY MEN
• IS THERE A “GAY VOICE”?
• WHY DO GAY GUYS SPEAK WH A LISP??
• IS THERE A REASON WHY A LOT OF GAY MEN SPEAK WH A LISP?
• WHY IS ANY GUY WH A LISP ASSUMED TO BE GAY?
• OF LISPS AND LGUISTICS: THE POWER OF THE GAY VOICE
• THE "GAY" LISP, IS REAL OR IS FORCED?
• THE GAY VOICE
• GAY LISP
• THE GAY LISP?
• WHAT DO LIMP WRISTS HAVE TO DO WH GAY MEN?

THE PREVALENCE OF LISPG GAY MEN

The prent study examed the popular stereotype that gay men lisp by evaluatg to what extent listeners associated ntal or ontal articulatn/lispg wh gayns. Based on the ratgs of the listeners of the prent study, lispg speakers were signifintly more often judged to be homosexual.

IS THERE A “GAY VOICE”?

This was te for the group as a whole as well as for the subgroup of homosexual and heterosexual men separately.

Furthermore, there was no signifint genr difference wh rpect to associatg lispg wh gayns. The rults of this study nfirmed prev prelimary fdgs that suggted that ontal or ntal articulatn/lispg is a feature that listeners associate wh gayns. Grapplg wh the issue of homosexualy: perceptns, attus, and beliefs among high school stunts Kenya.

Accs through your stutn rights and ntentAbstractThis study evaluated the stereotype that gay men lisp. Two clicians who were unaware of the specific purpose of the study and the populatns volved judged randomized d-rerdgs of 175 gay mal, 100 heterosexual mal and 100 heterosexual femal for the prence of lispg durg readg of a standardized text.

WHY DO GAY GUYS SPEAK WH A LISP??

In the gay mal a signifintly higher prevalence of lispg was found than the heterosexual mal and femal.

Breakdown of the rults of the gay participants two different age groups showed a higher prevalence of lispg the younger age group than the olr age group. No relatn was found between lispg and age of g-out or lispg and the probabily of beg gay as asssed by a qutnnaire about sexual orientatn.

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IS THERE A REASON WHY A LOT OF GAY MEN SPEAK WH A LISP?

Not long after Thorpe broke up wh his boyiend, he began thkg about the way he speaks, and the way other gay men speak, and why both sudnly bothered him so much. ”This is how he scrib the moment his documentary “Do I Sound Gay?, ” which opens this weekend at the IFC Center. He terviews gay public figur, cludg David Sedaris, Tim Gunn, Don Lemon, and Gee Takei, who have had to listen to themselv for a livg.

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.

Even wh the gay datg muny (and gay porn), hyper-masculy is habually prized, so self-disgt gets easily turned back outward. ”Of urse, not all gay men have the same voice, or any “gay” voice: is a stereotype, after all. Thorpe talks to a straight iend who sounds “gay” (he grew up on an ashram, surround by women), and a gay iend who sounds “straight” (he has jock brothers).

WHY IS ANY GUY WH A LISP ASSUMED TO BE GAY?

Obvly, the ncln—the film’s, and me—is to dissociate the “gay voice” om shame and reattach to pri, but isn’t so easy. “For many gay men, that’s the last vtige, that’s the last chunk of ternalized homophobia, is this hatred of how they sound, ” Dan Savage tells Thorpe.

OF LISPS AND LGUISTICS: THE POWER OF THE GAY VOICE

One of the ways gay people tend to pensate, the film suggts, is to adopt the supercil speech patterns of the leisure class, i. The CNN anchor Don Lemon tells Thorpe that he worked harr to ntralize his Southern black accent than his “gay” accent. (The phenomenon of gay whe men imatg black women’s speech is s own thorny subtegory.

As gays and lbians ga cultural pal, helped along by equaly victori like the one jt hand down by the Supreme Court, “gay voice” will surely evolve, too.

idk why but the high pched voice and slight lisp (i dont thk lisp is the right word, there's jt somethg that stands out about the S but isnt a full TH noise like a lisp) is very stereotypil of gay guys, but only a uple of the gay guys i know irl actually speak like this. It jt always seemed to me to be a flamboyant thg that immediately poted people out as gay and seems to be much more mon gay celebri famo for beg gay than actual real life people. When media began to place more and more gay men to the spotlight they went wh stereotyped gay men ( you rarely see a gay man the media who isn't Obvly gay) and so the ial for a gay man to anyone growg up on this media was the flamboyant type wh that lisp.

THE "GAY" LISP, IS REAL OR IS FORCED?

As a rult orr to "F " as the OP said a lot of gay men are jt playg out the stereotype.

I've been out for over twenty years and known hundreds if not thoands of gay men and I actually n't thk of any who spoke wh a lisp.

I jt asked my partner if he knows any gay men who speak wh a lisp and he also said no.

THE GAY VOICE

There are fely certa nc that many gay men fall to when speakg wh each other but a lisp? There are a large amount of gay men I've met that f the stereotype their speakg, but I've never thought "lisp" was the right word.

I've met many gay men, and I n actually only thk of one who didn't have "the voice".

I have, however, met one boy who was a Sophomore high school who intified as straight who had "the voice" as well. Though I thk this uld be the se for some (as they take on "the voice" orr to be noticed and regnized by other gay guys) I have a iend I ma this year who is gay and has the voice, and jt spis gay stereotyp. He hat drag, he hat gay guys who are overly "mpy" and is jt repulsed by all of , he says do nothg for him sexually and he also feels giv the rt of the gay muny a bad name.

GAY LISP

I fd tertg that there's no clear answer about the "gay lisp" (and y, I know isn't a te lisp, but that is what has e to be lled).

I thk there is some tth to this, but certaly don't apply to all or even most gay men. It's no secret that many gay men were effemate as kids, playg wh girls' toys, havg a lot of female iends.

I've jt been cur about this bee seems like a lot of gay men really emphasize the "s" sound. Firstly, YES there are some gay men who talk wh a lisp, or as is probably more accurate to say, wh a certa "accent".

THE GAY LISP?

My theory is that this probably has somethg to do wh homophobia, or rather how some gay men al wh homophobia. I pos that some gay male kids are eher outright rejected by other boys, or choose to distance themselv om boys out of fear of nsequenc. I've met hundreds of gay men my life, and the only one that spoke wh a straight-up lisp was the one wh a cleft palate.

I learned my psych class that there is a theory that if a man has a lot of olr brothers, he is more likely to be gay. So as more male babi are born, the ttosterone plet and the youngt n end up more feme or gay.

WHAT DO LIMP WRISTS HAVE TO DO WH GAY MEN?

But this is jt a theory and there are fely other factors that terme if a fet is gay or not. Why would they emulate somethg which is looked very down upon by society and even the gay muny for e.

Two spir dian nativ (pletely unaware of wtern stereotypil prentatns on gay men for obv reasons). I thk the stereotyp may be exaggerated by some gay men as a way to rebel agast femy beg seen as weak or femy men beg seen as negative; hence the need to be "fierce" and "fabulo". I feel like if femy men was more accepted society, the stereotype would actually crease bee there would be ls for feme gay men to rebel agast.