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Contents:

• GAY LISP
• THE PREVALENCE OF LISPG GAY MEN
• THE "GAY" LISP, IS REAL OR IS FORCED?
• WHY IS ANY GUY WH A LISP ASSUMED TO BE GAY?
• WHAT MEANS TO ‘SOUND GAY’
• CAN I E "LARDY-DARDY" TO SCRIBE A MAN'S GAY LISP AND GTURE? [CLOSED]
• VARIATN, IMPLIED PATHOLOGY, SOCIAL MEANG, AND THE 'GAY LISP': A RPONSE TO VAN BORSEL ET AL. (2009)
• GAYDAR—SENDG MIXED SIGNALS
• GAY PCH, LISP?
• DISCSNVARIATN, IMPLIED PATHOLOGY, SOCIAL MEANG, AND THE ‘GAY LISP’: A RPONSE TO VAN BORSEL ET AL. (2009)

GAY LISP

Wele back to “Ask a Homo, ” Outward’s no-judgement answer service for all your qutns on LGBTQ polics, culture, etiquette, language, and other queer nundms. This week, Bryan Lowr n-sth-irs the li-sth-p and other elements of the “stereotypil gay manner of speakg”—and honey, ’s jt fabulo! Send your queri—for publitn—to, and please put “ASK A HOMO” the subject le.

The prent study examed the popular stereotype that gay men lisp by evaluatg to what extent listeners associated ntal or ontal articulatn/lispg wh gayns. Based on the ratgs of the listeners of the prent study, lispg speakers were signifintly more often judged to be homosexual. This was te for the group as a whole as well as for the subgroup of homosexual and heterosexual men separately.

THE PREVALENCE OF LISPG GAY MEN

Furthermore, there was no signifint genr difference wh rpect to associatg lispg wh gayns.

The rults of this study nfirmed prev prelimary fdgs that suggted that ontal or ntal articulatn/lispg is a feature that listeners associate wh gayns. Nasaly Homosexual Men: A Comparison wh Heterosexual Men and Women. Gay Voice: Stable Marker of Sexual Orientatn or Flexible Communitn Device?

THE "GAY" LISP, IS REAL OR IS FORCED?

Grapplg wh the issue of homosexualy: perceptns, attus, and beliefs among high school stunts Kenya.

Inferenc About Sexual Orientatn: The Rol of Stereotyp, Fac, and The Gaydar Myth. I am a gay man and this is drivg me crazy bee other aspects of the stereotypil "gay voice" are intifiable (even though they are still homophobic, I at least know what people are referrg to when they talk about them). Please don't remend I watch "Do I Sound Gay" bee I've seen and I do not unrstand.

WHY IS ANY GUY WH A LISP ASSUMED TO BE GAY?

A gay lisp is actually not a lisp but refers to stereotypil speech attribut assigned to and sometim seen gay mal.

Several speech featur are stereotyped as markers of gay male inty: reful pronunciatn, wi pch range, high and rapidly changg pch, breathy tone, lengthened itive sounds, and pronunciatn of t as ts and d as dz. Some rearchers report that North Amerin gay men tend to pronounce sibilants (s, z, sh, and the like) wh assibilatn -- more sibilatn, hissg, or strincy.

A study by Rudolf Gd vtigated claims that people n intify gay mal by their speech and that the listeners e pch range and fluctuatn cidg. Gd found that listeners uld intify gay male speakers, but that there were no nvcg differenc pch. Some analysts say gay people speak wh an affected accent, as a way of signallg their inty and affiliatn wh the gay subculture, or a way to exprs femy.

WHAT MEANS TO ‘SOUND GAY’

Accs through your stutn rights and ntentAbstractThis study evaluated the stereotype that gay men lisp.

CAN I E "LARDY-DARDY" TO SCRIBE A MAN'S GAY LISP AND GTURE? [CLOSED]

Two clicians who were unaware of the specific purpose of the study and the populatns volved judged randomized d-rerdgs of 175 gay mal, 100 heterosexual mal and 100 heterosexual femal for the prence of lispg durg readg of a standardized text.

In the gay mal a signifintly higher prevalence of lispg was found than the heterosexual mal and femal.

VARIATN, IMPLIED PATHOLOGY, SOCIAL MEANG, AND THE 'GAY LISP': A RPONSE TO VAN BORSEL ET AL. (2009)

Breakdown of the rults of the gay participants two different age groups showed a higher prevalence of lispg the younger age group than the olr age group. No relatn was found between lispg and age of g-out or lispg and the probabily of beg gay as asssed by a qutnnaire about sexual orientatn. The orig of the high prevalence of lispg gay men needs further vtigatn.

Learng out: The rears of this article will able (1) to discs articulatory behavur as a possible marker that may distguish gay om heterosexual men (2) to discs the prevalence of lispg gay by (0)1aspirant van het Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onrzoek full textCopyright © 2008 Elsevier Inc. What the gay man was alludg to was the lisp he had and the expectatn that expected the guy who asked him to classify anyone wh as clearly gay. Personally, I don't thk 's found a higher proportn gay men over any other group jt like pretty much any other characteristic but I ma the thread to fd out what the rt of you thk.

GAYDAR—SENDG MIXED SIGNALS

So my qutn to you GAF is: Is the gay lisp real or is jt a forced thg that some gay men put on to somehow signify that they're gay?

Ed: I put gay quotatn marks as I don't thk should necsarily be associated solely wh gay men. I don't thk is, appearg/soundg "straight actg" is the most sirable thg you n be the gay muny. I'd say 's an affectatn that's been so standard for so long that there are probably a lot of gays who don't even realize they're dog .

I'm gonna go wh forced, only bee I n do a pch perfect one and I am not gay. Every time I hear a person talkg wh the lisp, I assume they are gay.

GAY PCH, LISP?

don't thk 's found a higher proportn gay men over any other group jt like pretty much any other characteristic but I ma the thread to fd out what the rt of you thk. You may be nfg wh over-enunciatg certa words and the nce which some gay men speak when they're foolg around, but general most people I know speak like a regular human beg. Of urse we're generalizg or stereotypg but there is no nyg that 's really mon among gay men.

Only one of my gay iends universy had that lisp, and he had basilly e over om Lebanon havg watched a ton of Will & Grace and thkg that's how gay people are supposed to act. I had two iends high school that had that lisp but tried to tell me they weren't gay even though I pretty much assumed they were.

DISCSNVARIATN, IMPLIED PATHOLOGY, SOCIAL MEANG, AND THE ‘GAY LISP’: A RPONSE TO VAN BORSEL ET AL. (2009)

But there's nothg geic that gay people to have a lisp, 's somethg that n be ed by a host of oral/nasal issu. My brother is gay and went om havg no lisp to a very proment one after semi g out the closet.

I've only known one gay uple, but one of them had the lisp and the other didn't. I know a number of gay people who, if they don't have the lisp, they at least have some "tradnal" gay stereotype behavrs.