I hope this don't e off as offensive but I'm jt cur: Is jt me or do some gays, some guy men specifilly, seem to have a distct accent...
Contents:
- THE GAY VOICE
- GAY STEREOTYP: ARE THEY TE?
- WHAT'S THE LK BETWEEN HOMOSEXUALY AND HAVG A 'GAY VOICE'
- WHY DO *SOME* GAY GUYS SPEAK DIFFERENTLY?
- WHY DO SOME GAY PEOPLE SEEM TO TALK DIFFERENTLY?
- QUEER VS. GAY: HOW THE WORDS ARE DIFFERENT, AND WHY IT’S IMPORTANT
THE GAY VOICE
Self-nsc about the way he speaks, David Thorpe has explored why some people his muny ‘sound gay’ and others don’t a new documentary. * why do gay people talk different *
Why do some gay men “sound” gay?
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. They want to know how men acquire this manner of speakg, and why – pecially when society so often stigmatiz those wh gay-soundg voic.
GAY STEREOTYP: ARE THEY TE?
* why do gay people talk different *
Rogers and Smyth are also explorg the stereotyp that gay men sound effemate and are regnized by the way they speak. They asked people to listen to rerdgs of 25 men, 17 of them gay. Perhaps fewer than half of gay men sound gay, says Rogers.
The straightt-soundg voice the study was fact a gay man, and the sixth gayt-soundg voice was a straight man. I don't unrstand why male homosexuals have an "accent".
I am not homophobic. The way that male gays talk don't even really bother me unls 's overtly flamboyant, I fd myself sensive to loud talkg no matter who is.
WHAT'S THE LK BETWEEN HOMOSEXUALY AND HAVG A 'GAY VOICE'
I know a few gay men who don't talk this way at all. 15, 2006 — -- Gay activists often cricize media verage of gay pri paras, sayg, rrectly, that the media foc on the extreme, the more flamboyantly feme men and very mascule women.
Most of are jt like everyone gays jt like straights?
Or is Hollywood's equent portrayal of gay men as feme more accurate?
WHY DO *SOME* GAY GUYS SPEAK DIFFERENTLY?
What, we asked, are the stereotyp about gay men? "Not all gay men are superstylish. Not all straight men are bad drsers, " he is rearch that suggts gay men do prefer certa profsns, like fashn, terr sign and hair lorg, and that lbians are more likely to prefer sports and the ary.
Rearchers say 's bee lbians, on average, are attracted to more mascule occupatns, and gay men tend to prefer more feme is te that hostily toward gay people drove many away om some other profsns.
"Whether you work, you know, as an artist or a sger or a dancer, those are all really creative plac where gay people are embraced, " Krsley saidIncreasgly gay people are visible every profsn. Barney Frank is an openly gay ngrsman om Massachetts. And the wrers of the show "Will and Grace" ma their ma gay character, Will Tman, a high-powered the stereotyp do persist.
WHY DO SOME GAY PEOPLE SEEM TO TALK DIFFERENTLY?
He says sexual orientatn is somethg people are born wh, and this orientatn mak some gay men more feme. And probably has to do wh the of sexual orientatn and early effects of hormon on the bra, " Bailey did a survey of profsnal dancers and found half the men were gay. It's no big al, and as a matter of fact, 's almost celebrated if you're gay, " said dancer Meredh Raey.
"So what if there are a lot of gay men dance? "While Raey is gay, the ballet said most of s male dancers are straight. "People assume that if you're a male ballet dancer you're gay.
The owners of the Prada Gsel hair salon New York Cy are straight but people thk they're gay. Another stereotype is that gay people speak differently than straight people. "Gay men absolutely talk differently, on average.
QUEER VS. GAY: HOW THE WORDS ARE DIFFERENT, AND WHY IT’S IMPORTANT
You n tell far better than chance who's a gay man om jt listeng to him say four sentenc, " Bailey Bailey's help, "20/20" ran a tt 2004 to see if people uld tell who was gay and who was straight. Five gay and five straight men spent an hour mglg wh dozens of people.
Could the tters terme who was gay and who was straight? The man who most people thought was straight was actually people do thk that gay men are more promiscuo than straight men, and fact, Bailey said, gay men do have more sex partners.
"I thk that the typil straight man would have as many sex partners as the typil gay man if he uld, " Bailey, we asked Bailey, isn't stereotypg harmful? People have long mocked gay people, even attacked them, for beg different. While there may be some differenc between gays and straights, there are lots of siari.