In this week’s newsletter: From the ntemporary Christian scene to rap battl, Sounds Gay explor what mic means to LGBTQ+ people. Pl: five of the bt niche podsts
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
Pri serv more than a month. The gay songs – om dis hs to club classics – are perfect for Pri year-round. * gay hear *
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.
THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
What's so tertg about the gay voice is that 's a primary ditor that we as begs are more plex than we physilly appear to be. * gay hear *
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. 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 GAY VOICE
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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.
QUEER VOIC: DO I SOUND GAY? DO IT MATTER?
Kylie Mogue’s latt sgle appears to be on the fast track to gay-classic stat. We asked D.J.s booked for Pri events to weigh on the track’s voted cult followg. * gay hear *
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 HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED
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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.
AM I GAY?
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. 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.
WHICH EAR IS THE GAY EARRG? WHICH EAR IS THE STRAIGHT EAR?
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 ?