Gay men, ternalized homophobia, and (re)fg the "gay voice"
Contents:
- HOMOSEXUAL MEN WHO ‘SOUND GAY’ AL WH MORE DISCRIMATN, STUDY SAYS
- LARRY HAWORTH'S LIST: GAY PORN TUBE
- “GAY” SOUNDG!?!
- "DO I SOUND GAY?"
- FILM CLUB | ‘WHO SOUNDS GAY?’
- GAY MEN WHO 'SOUND GAY' ENUNTER MORE STIGMA AND DISCRIMATN OM HETEROSEXUAL PEERS
- HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
HOMOSEXUAL MEN WHO ‘SOUND GAY’ AL WH MORE DISCRIMATN, STUDY SAYS
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CMV: Many straight men would sound like the stereotypil "gay voice" if they didn't force their voice the be eper.
Now pretty much everyone says I have a "gay voice" which I agree, I do thk I sound "gay" bee stereotypilly the pch of my voice sounds like the other gay people (<average). However I do feel like some straight men purposely make their voice eper jt to NOT sound "gay" even though naturally their pch wouldn't be as low. Obvly some straight people and gay people have ep voic, voic e high and lows, but how many of the ep voiced men actually would sound like that whout purposely "puttg some bass their voice"?
“GAY” SOUNDG!?!
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Rearchers om the Universy of Surrey say gay men are more likely to enunter discrimatn and prejudice than lbian women; particularly over the way they “sound. Homosexual men who believe their voice “sounds gay” anticipate facg bigotry on a regular basis, the report fds.
Specifilly, study thors vtigated if sentialist beliefs toward gay and lbian dividuals actually lead to tangible discrimatn.
To start, rearchers asked 363 heterosexual volunteers a seri of qutns about their beliefs and thoughts on homosexualy. For example, study thors probed to whether people believe “when listeng to a person is possible to tect his/her sexual orientatn om his/her voice very quickly” or “gay/lbian people sound gay/lbian and there is not much they n do to really change that. The team also analyzed the participants to see if they hold any blatant discrimatory views of homosexuals.
"DO I SOUND GAY?"
This clud ggg their rpons to statements like “I thk male/female homosexuals are disgtg” and “I would not teract wh a man/woman who sounds gay/lbian if I uld avoid . Addnally, the participants’ views on “gay-soundg” voic has a ep nnectn to “avoidant discrimatn towards gay-soundg men. More gay men fear judgments about who they are.
Rearchers asked this group about their beliefs regardg the sound of their voic and worri over beg perceived as gay.
FILM CLUB | ‘WHO SOUNDS GAY?’
This led to the ncln that far more gay men than lbian women believe that people n tect their sexual orientatn based on their voice. Consequently, gay men anticipate and worry about such events regularly. “What we have found is that people have stronger beliefs about the voic of gay men than lbian women.
In particular, beliefs that gay men and straight men have different voic that allow people to tect their sexual orientatn was lked to stigmatizatn, possibly explag why some heterosexual dividuals stigmatize gay-soundg men regardls of their sexualy.
Unrstandg more about sentialist beliefs helps expla both the perpetratn of stigma by heterosexuals and the experience of stigma by lbians and gay men, ” says Dr.
GAY MEN WHO 'SOUND GAY' ENUNTER MORE STIGMA AND DISCRIMATN OM HETEROSEXUAL PEERS
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HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
Microaggrsns and the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Communy" and Dr. “Do I Sound Gay?
”—one of summer 2015’s mt see documentari acrdg to Entertament Weekly—is a new film by David Thorpe, a gay Whe Amerin wrer based Brooklyn, New York.
Through a seri of terviews and teractns wh Thorpe’s iends and relativ, a few celebri, and random strangers on the streets, we hear a spectm of perspectiv about what “sounds gay” and why soundg as such is perceived as bad. Many of the gay men the film adm to beg que fortable wh the sounds of their voic, not fully unrstandg why Thorpe would feel so strongly about his voice that he would even vis a speech pathologist and a celebry vol traer to get rid of his “gay voice. ” However, most of the gay men the film were able to relate to the secury of havg a more feme voice and some even relled tim that their “gay soundg” voic (and general gay inti) had led to gettg bullied or worse.