The Gay Voice - Universy of Toronto Magaze

Contents:

• THIS IS WHY SOME MEN ‘SOUND GAY’ – EVEN IF THEY’RE NOT
• THE GAY VOICE
• GAY SIREN
• FILMMAKER AND SPEECH PATHOLOGIST WEIGH IN ON WHAT IT MEANS TO 'SOUND GAY'
• "DO I SOUND GAY?"
• DENIS LEARY’S NEW S, SIRENS, AND THE FIVE STAG OF GAY TV WATCHG
• TRADUZNE DI "SOUND LIKE GAY GUYS" ALIANO

THIS IS WHY SOME MEN ‘SOUND GAY’ – EVEN IF THEY’RE NOT

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THE GAY VOICE

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.

GAY SIREN

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.

Share "Gay Siren" Sound:. [The Oddyssey] Do the Sirens' song work equally well on both homosexual and heterosexual men?

What about gay men? You sound like a gay.

FILMMAKER AND SPEECH PATHOLOGIST WEIGH IN ON WHAT IT MEANS TO 'SOUND GAY'

In Do I Sound Gay?, Thorpe search for the orig of the "gay voice" stereotype.

Is there such a thg as a "gay voice"? For gay filmmaker David Thorpe, the answer to that qutn is plited.

"DO I SOUND GAY?"

"There is no such thg as a fundamentally gay voice, " Thorpe tells Frh Air's Terry Gross. " In his new film, Do I Sound Gay?, Thorpe search for the orig of that stereotype and documents his own attempts to sound "ls gay" by workg wh speech pathologist San Sank.

"David was the first person who me to me who was upont right om the begng about soundg gay and what he wanted to do, " Sank tells Gross.

"I've always been self-nsc about soundg gay, " Thorpe adds. " Thorpe scrib the gay voice as one characterized by a sibilant S and a high pch.

DENIS LEARY’S NEW S, SIRENS, AND THE FIVE STAG OF GAY TV WATCHG

"When I terview people, " Thorpe says, "they always say that to them the gay voice... " Interview Highlights On beg self-nsc about soundg gay Thorpe: I grew up the '80s, which was a ls acceptg time for LGBT people. And as Dan Savage says the movie, effemate kids, whether they are gay or straight, get persecuted for, kd of, how they walk and how they talk....

TRADUZNE DI "SOUND LIKE GAY GUYS" ALIANO

On where the "gay sound" om Thorpe: If I have to speculate about where the so-lled gay voice om, for me, both the most predomant answers work. I always had a lot of female iends growg up and I don't thk that's atypil for some gay men. At the same time, I totally get that when I me out, I wanted to be regnized as gay; I wanted the world to know I was gay and I wanted to f to this existg muny, so I thk my voice really did change after I me out.

What I took om San was more an easy way of speakg and an abily to speak thentilly rather than changg my style to sound ls gay.