The Columnist: Joseph Alsop's Fabulo Gay Life As A 'Hoe Faggot' - Village Voice Stagg

Contents:

• IS THERE A “GAY VOICE”?
• THE COLUMNIST: JOSEPH ALSOP’S FABULO GAY LIFE AS A ‘HOE FAGGOT’
• TARGET RELEASED A FABULO GAY PRI NUTCRACKER THAT’S SELLG OUT
• THE GAY VOICE POPULAR MIC: A SOCIAL VALUE MOL ANALYSIS OF "DON'T LEAVE ME THIS WAY"

IS THERE A “GAY VOICE”?

0, Van Ns was the one that rattled that lovely ternalized homophobia that so many gay men stggle to shake off. And while I was further along on my journey to gay self-love and unrstandg three years ago than I was ten or even five years ago, I was still taken aback by Van Ns’s unabashed fabulons and abily to jt generate a nstant stream of new tch phras. For stance, the episo on figure skatg ns through the sport’s history and the different stunts a skater n pull on the ice, but also digs to the history of classism, racism, misogyny and homophobia that plague the sport.

He sounds gay. 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.

THE COLUMNIST: JOSEPH ALSOP’S FABULO GAY LIFE AS A ‘HOE FAGGOT’

”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. He even asks people on the street if they thk he sounds gay.

TARGET RELEASED A FABULO GAY PRI NUTCRACKER THAT’S SELLG OUT

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. The world’s homophobia be ternalized homophobia.

THE GAY VOICE POPULAR MIC: A SOCIAL VALUE MOL ANALYSIS OF "DON'T LEAVE ME THIS WAY"

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).

Did he choose to sound gay or did soundg gay choose him? ” (The gay “lisp” is a b of a misnomer, ually referrg to a sibilant “S.

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.