In Do I Sound Gay?, director David Thorpe search for the orig of the so-lled "gay voice" and documents his own attempts (wh speech pathologist San Sank) to sound "ls gay."
Contents:
- HOMOSEXUAL MEN WHO ‘SOUND GAY’ AL WH MORE DISCRIMATN, STUDY SAYS
- FILMMAKER AND SPEECH PATHOLOGIST WEIGH IN ON WHAT IT MEANS TO 'SOUND GAY'
- THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
- "DO I SOUND GAY?"
- WHAT MEANS TO ‘SOUND GAY’
- GAY MEN WHO 'SOUND GAY' ENUNTER MORE STIGMA AND DISCRIMATN OM HETEROSEXUAL PEERS
HOMOSEXUAL MEN WHO ‘SOUND GAY’ AL WH MORE DISCRIMATN, STUDY SAYS
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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?"
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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. 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 MEANS TO ‘SOUND GAY’
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“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.
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GAY MEN WHO 'SOUND GAY' ENUNTER MORE STIGMA AND DISCRIMATN OM HETEROSEXUAL PEERS
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.
"There is no such thg as a fundamentally gay voice, " Thorpe tells Frh Air's Terry Gross.