Hear Hear! Our Voic Are More Than Gay Voic | HuffPost Voic

Contents:

• HERE'S WHY HUFFPOST GAY VOIC JT CHANGED ITS NAME TO HUFFPOST QUEER VOIC
• HUFFPOST GAY VOIC DEBUTS
• HUFFPOST GAY VOIC REBRANDS TO MORE INCLIVE HUFFPOST QUEER VOIC
• HEAR HEAR! OUR VOIC ARE MORE THAN GAY VOIC
• SIGNORILE TO HUFFPOST'S 'GAY VOIC'
• HUFFPOST GAY VOIC IS NOW QUEER VOIC

HERE'S WHY HUFFPOST GAY VOIC JT CHANGED ITS NAME TO HUFFPOST QUEER VOIC

Today, for the very first time, we're thrilled to wele you to HuffPost Queer name change four-and-a-half years after we origally buted as HuffPost Gay Voic -- and after untls nversatns wh untls people, both si and outsi of the HuffPost I've had my own love affair wh the word "queer" for as long as I n remember (more on that a mute), at the time of our lnch 2011 some people felt that the term was too ntroversial, too divisive and, bee of s history as a slur, perhaps jt too paful to e.

HUFFPOST GAY VOIC DEBUTS

Instead, we settled on HuffPost Gay Voic (you n read more about how that cisn was reached here). "Queer" functns as an umbrella term that clus not only the lbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenr people of "LGBT, " but also those whose inti fall between, outsi of or stretch beyond those tegori, cludg genrqueer people, tersex people, asexual people, pansexual people, polyamoro people and those qutng their sexualy or genr, to name jt a few. An Open Letter To Boys Like O'Shae SibleyAs we as queer Black people llectively grieve, we mt turn our grief to our power by Country's Tyler Chilrs Shar Why He Wanted His New Vio To Be A Gay Love StoryReleased last week, Chilrs' “In Your Love” has been emed a heartfelt unterpot to “Try That a Small Town, ” Jason Alan's cendiary Former 'Bachelorette' Gabby Wy Debuts Girliend On Social Media"Told you I'm a girls girl!

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HUFFPOST GAY VOIC REBRANDS TO MORE INCLIVE HUFFPOST QUEER VOIC

The Huffgton Post has lnched Gay Voic, another “vertil” (their term for a specific sectn of the se) their seemgly ever-growg list (Black Voic, Lato Voic, etc. ) servg ntent by er his gural post welg rears, Gay Voic edor Noah Michelson addrs the ratnale for the se and s name:While the Huffgton Post has done an credible job of verg queer stori the past, Gay Voic will provi a place for all of those stori to “live” together, thereby makg much easier for rears to fd, share and discs queer topics...

HEAR HEAR! OUR VOIC ARE MORE THAN GAY VOIC

Brgs to the term “gay” and why we chose the name Gay Voic... While most often scrib a “male homosexual, ” “gay” has been and n be ed by (and to refer to) those wh other margalized sexual inti.

I fully nce the term may not be one everyone feels fortable claimg or wants to be associated wh (pecially when to issu of genr rather than sexualy), but after realizg that there was never gog to be the perfect term for to e, we felt that “gay” packs the most stantaneo punch and immediately intifi the ntent on this vertil as alg wh the typ of issu and argument that “gay” is still the clost we have to a universally acceptable word to scribe LGBT people is not new. The qutn I have om the above ratnale is: Has the word “gay” really e full circle? Well, Gay Voic seems to thk so.

SIGNORILE TO HUFFPOST'S 'GAY VOIC'

Not sure if that will ntue, but the ma article today on the Gay Voic homepage about HIV gave me some hope. Let’s hope Gay Voic keeps HIV/AIDS stori high the mix.

Acrdg to an troductory blog post penned by HuffPo's edorial director, Noah Michelson, the new name -- which replac HuffPost Gay Voic -- was chosen an attempt to create a more clive onle edorial space that better reprents the LGBT populatn at large. "Historilly, the term "queer" has often been ed as a rogatory slur agast gay men, but as Michelson pots out, the word was reclaimed recent s as a way to intify and unify all people who fall wh the LGBT spectm. Bisexual men are perceived to sound more mascule than men who are straight, acrdg to a study of Atralian subjects.Amics at the Universy of Sydney pared the voic of gay, straight and bisexual men a study volvg 160 people.In the rearch led by clil psychologist Jam Morandi, people were reced to analyse the voic of 60 men, 20 of whom were gay, 20 straight and 20 bisexual.

HUFFPOST GAY VOIC IS NOW QUEER VOIC

They were then asked to rate the men on their sexual orientatn g a sle om zero (exclively heterosexual) to 10 (exclively homosexual).Listeners were also asked to rate each man’s perceived level of femy or masculy the voic on a siar sle.The men volved the study were asked to rerd themselv on a smartphone recg the first two l of the Atralian natnal anthem.Voice sampl were then modified to remove any background noise while volume levels were ma the same to ensure nsistency.Rults om the study showed listeners uld distguish between gay and straight men’s voic wh an accuracy of 62 per cent, apparently nsistent wh prev rearch.However, the study participants uld not terme any differenc between bisexual and straight men’s voic wh any gree of accuracy. The thors said their rearch showed bisexual men’s voic were perceived as beg more exclively attracted to women pared wh both gay and straight men’s voic.Bisexual men’s voic were rated as more mascule than both gay and straight men’s voic.Rearchers claimed the abily to intify a man’s bisexual inty om his voice alone uld have cril social implitns such as helpg to rce feelgs of alienatn.‘Voice may unter visibily many bisexuals feel’An abstract of the study, tled Can listeners tect if a man is bisexual om his voice alone, reads: “The prent study examed whether bisexual men n be intified om their voic ak to how gay men n be intified on their voice alone.“If this is the se, voice may be an important target of discrimatn on the one hand but may also unter the visibily many bisexuals feel (if their bisexual inti n be apprehend by their voice alone, whout explic disclosure required).“The fdgs may also she light on whether bisexual male voic, like gay male voic, differ om straight voic terms of their genr non-nformy – a qutn that to date has not been examed.”But amics noted the rearch was limed on the grounds all men who participated the study are Atralian, which may not be reflected among wir cultur.And the thors nced the study did not ntrol for the rerdg environment or microphone-to-mouth distance, which uld have affected the qualy of the voice sampl.The thors said the fdgs suggted that while the voic of bisexual men the sample were perceived as more mascule and attracted to femal, listeners did not associate this imprsn wh bisexualy.As a rult, while bisexual men may appear to be at lower risk of facg voice-based intifitn and discrimatn than gay men, they may often be mistaken as beg straight.The study was published the Journal of Sex Rearch. In this week’s Huffgton Post Gay Voic “Let Love Defe Fay™” seri stallment, ntributg wrer Eric Criswell celebrat Father’s Day by sharg this plan.

Chad explaed, “The social worker was very hont wh that there were some old-school foster fai that have a hard time wh , but they don’t make the cisns and there are no issu wh the DCF about gay upl.

This week’s stallment the Huffgton Post Gay Voic “Let Love Defe Fay™” seri looks at the health and well-beg of children raised by LGBT parents, the impact of those children’s voic on the visibily of same-sex head hoeholds and the growg number of victori the marriage equaly the Supreme Court heard the Proposn 8 se 2013, Jtice Anthony Kennedy wonred aloud, “There are some 40, 000 children California…that live wh same-sex parents.