'The Voice' has openly gay sgers: Where are they on 'Amerin Idol'?
Contents:
- PEOPLE N INTIFY WHETHER A MAN IS GAY OR STRAIGHT BY THEIR VOICE. BISEXUALS? NOT SO MUCH
- 'THE VOICE' HAS OPENLY GAY SGERS: WHERE ARE THEY ON 'AMERIN IDOL'?
- MEET ’S GAY CONTTANTS
- WE N THANK GAY ACTIVISTS FOR TODAY’S EPIMIC OF TRANS NFN
PEOPLE N INTIFY WHETHER A MAN IS GAY OR STRAIGHT BY THEIR VOICE. BISEXUALS? NOT SO MUCH
* who is gay on the voice *
Prev rearch has dited that the abily to terme whether a man is gay om his voice om a batn of factors. A higher pch, wir pch range, longer vowels, expand vowel space, and more precise pronunciatn are voice characteristics associated wh gay men. Scientists hypothized that bisexual men’s voic might be nsired more feme-soundg than straight men’s and more mascule-soundg than gay men’s when me to self-reported and observer-reported masculy and femy.
One hundred sixty participants, divid evenly between men and women, were asked to listen to voice sampl om 60 men (divid evenly between gay, bisexual, and straight men). They rated the voic on a sle of zero (exclively heterosexual) to ten (exclively homosexual). 62% of the participants uld distguish between a gay man’s and a straight man’s voice.
'THE VOICE' HAS OPENLY GAY SGERS: WHERE ARE THEY ON 'AMERIN IDOL'?
Instead, their voic were rated more mascule than both straight and gay men’s voic. They were also rated to be more exclively attracted to women than men than straight or gay men. Rearch to bisexualy has lagged due to “bisexual erasure, ” the tenncy to overlook the largt segment of the LGBTQ+ muny favor of gay or straight men.
"When I was younger I thought I was straight, bee I was more attracted to women, and I didn't know there were more optns bis Gay and Straight, " The Voice season 8 wner shared. "When I was younger I thought I was straight, bee I was more attracted to women, and I didn't know there were more optns bis Gay and Straight. ”For Kique, g out as gay “wasn’t a big al.
MEET ’S GAY CONTTANTS
THE VOICE -- "Bld Audns" Episo 2303 -- Pictured: (l-r) Blake Shelton, Kelly Clarkson, Chance The Rapper, Niall Horan -- (Photo by: Evans Vtal Ward/NBC) NBC’s The Voice has only aired two episos, but already viewers have heard somethg that viewers have probably never heard on Fox’s Amerin Idol: “I’m gay. ” The Voice featured two openly lbian nttants durg s premiere, then two openly gay men durg s send episo.
WE N THANK GAY ACTIVISTS FOR TODAY’S EPIMIC OF TRANS NFN
While there have been gay Idol nttants, most famoly Adam Lambert and Clay Aiken, they’ve eher publicly acknowledged their sexual orientatn after their rpective seasons nclud, or that aspect of their inty was ignored on the show self. In fact, out of hundreds of nttants that have appeared on TV’s biggt seri over 10 years, openly gay portrayals are eher nonexistent (nobody ntacted for this story uld remember one), or at bt, extremely rare, let alone numbers like The Voice has picted s first two weeks.