Am I Gay Quiz - wikiHow

Contents:

• GAY GAY HOMOSEXUAL GAY / I CAN STILL HEAR HIS VOICE
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• THE GAY VOICE
• QUEER VOIC: DO I SOUND GAY? DO IT MATTER?
• THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED
• AM I GAY?
• WHICH EAR IS THE GAY EARRG? WHICH EAR IS THE STRAIGHT EAR?

GAY GAY HOMOSEXUAL GAY / I CAN STILL HEAR HIS VOICE

Gay Gay Homosexual Gay or I Can Still Hear His Voice is a tchphrase often paired wh imag of characters om popular media, which one character remisc another character mockg them. In the panel foreground, the character Yugi Muto remembers the character Pharaoh Atem, sayg, "I n still hear his voice…" In the eded background, Atem says, "Gay gay homosexual gay, " creatg the imprsn that the memory of Atem is mockg Yugi.

But January 2021, e of the image and phras, particular "Gay Gay Homosexual Gay, " began to grow populary. 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. Rogers and Smyth are also explorg the stereotyp that gay men sound effemate and are regnized by the way they speak.

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

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 jt watched the much-talked-about documentary Do I Sound Gay?, which tails wrer-director David Thorpe's securi wh the sound of his voice.

I endured durg adolcence bee of my gay mannerisms. It's sad to see anyone so eply rent a part of himself, and as he had edorial directn over the film, I am also trated at his choice to njo the phenomenon of how the "gay voice" phenomenon sounds wh subcultural lgo, as he dramatilly reenacts his horror at beg surround by melodilly nversg gay men llg one another "girl" and "sweetie" on a tra. This troubl me -- tappg to my own securi -- bee to me, the two "gay voice" phenomena are far as I am ncerned, no qutn, I've got a gay voice.

THE GAY VOICE

In my md, 's a super-gay voice, really, a nspicuo give-away that is one of the primary reasons I've never had a passg thought of tryg to be closeted. The gay voice, to me, is ma up of such a nstellatn of featur (many scribed Thorpe's film) that any attempt at remediatg (ugh) seems like too surmountable an effort. Then there are the "sgsong" tonatns, the gay nce, scribed by a vol ach the film.

At first, this part of the job scriptn was almost too arduo to make the work worth : y, y, I've always known I sound gay. But acknowledgg that one sounds gay and then listeng to onelf sound so gay are slightly different thgs. Y, on every rerdg is that slight lisp, and that high pch, and that whimsil sgsongs that I thk is at the root of so many gay men's secury bee whimsy is the very oppose of nventnal masculy.

QUEER VOIC: DO I SOUND GAY? DO IT MATTER?

And after a while, I actually me to fd the sound of my voice rather charmg s quirky semi-uniquens, and uber-gayns. " I chimed , "well, and I'm really gay.

" (Si note: my always-forthright mother has also always told me that the 'gay voice' always outs s subject, except some s when "they might jt be an tellectual.

THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED

You know, they always sound gay and sometim they're jt smart. " Her tellg me this stirs up nflicted feelgs: 's wrong to prume there's a rrelatn between beg gay and is ? )Seattle Tim cric John Hartl lled Do I Sound Gay "an telligent...

AM I GAY?

" My clatn is to rpond fensively to the ia of a 'gay voice' beg 'genr nfn, ' but takg the negative nnotatn of the word nfn out of the picture and focg on what means is tertg.

This fn is natural that 's based on obv physil characteristics of the male and female 's so tertg, then, about the gay voice -- which om here on I will ll the queer voice -- is that 's a primary ditor that we as begs are more plex than we physilly appear to be.

" At one time, genr studi, this ncept evintly was vogue as a way to expla the phenomenon of homosexualy: that there are actually three sex, not two: heterosexual male, heterosexual female and homosexual male and female. ) The prciple me up aga an honors urse lled "Women's Life Wrgs, " which sence was a lp of readg assignments of tobgraphil, private wrgs of women throughout history that often blurred the l of the hetero/homo divisn. It's not foolproof (assumg Frasier Crane was really jt an tellectual and not a closet se), but works pretty neatly: a man wh a gay voice is ually -- my experience -- gay.

WHICH EAR IS THE GAY EARRG? WHICH EAR IS THE STRAIGHT EAR?

And even gay men wh voic whose low pch fi the easy stereotype, there's ually somethg the nce and livery that sets off my the same time, the creasgly ntroversial Calyn Jenner exprsed on her show I am Ca that her voice is an secury bee giv her away as a man: she drs as a woman and has had surgery to femize her facial and body featur, but she sounds like a du.

Some of the other transgenr women on the show sound more stereotypilly like gay men. And sce we until very recently only accepted two sex -- male, female -- mak a certa amount of sense that self-shame about not ftg to one of those tegori might be rponsible for gay men so adamantly wantg a "mascule" partner, even when he so many s is as "swishy" as they ncln at this pot life -- and importantly, I acknowledge that we ntue to evolve our perceptns throughout our liv -- is that beg gay, bi, transgenr and all other variatns is as natural as havg a penis or a vaga.