Self-nsc about the way he speaks, David Thorpe has explored why some people his muny ‘sound gay’ and others don’t a new documentary.
Contents:
- THIS IS WHY SOME MEN ‘SOUND GAY’ – EVEN IF THEY’RE NOT
- WHAT'S THE LK BETWEEN HOMOSEXUALY AND HAVG A 'GAY VOICE'
- A NEW STUDY ON “GAYDAR” YIELDS SURPRISG RULTS
- MY GAY VOICE AND YOURS
- WHAT MEANS TO ‘SOUND GAY’
THIS IS WHY SOME MEN ‘SOUND GAY’ – EVEN IF THEY’RE NOT
People wh stereotypilly high-pched or ‘mp’ voic n fd people assumg that they’re gay, acrdg to one Amerin film-maker - even if they aren’t. Likewise, men wh ep voic n fd themselv wrongly assumed to be beg straight. * straight guys with gay voices *
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.
WHAT'S THE LK BETWEEN HOMOSEXUALY AND HAVG A 'GAY VOICE'
* straight guys with gay voices *
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). 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.
CMV: Many straight men would sound like the stereotypil "gay voice" if they didn't force their voice the be eper. Stay ahead of the trend fashn and beyond wh our ee weekly Liftyle Ed newsletterStay ahead of the trend fashn and beyond wh our ee weekly Liftyle Ed newsletter After a particularly bad break-up, David Thorpe, a journalist who’s his forti, cid to take his md off thgs by leavg his ts his Manhattan apartment and drowng his sorrows at a gay beach town on Fire Island.
A NEW STUDY ON “GAYDAR” YIELDS SURPRISG RULTS
Is your gay voice givg you away? Apparently not, says a new study. Is your gay voice givg you away? Apparently not, says a new study. * straight guys with gay voices *
“I knew then that I had to get to the bottom of that feelg and to the importance of the voice as part of gay inty.
”It was the start of a four-year journey of self-disvery durg which Thorpe tried to figure out his so-lled “gay voice”: when did he start talkg that way, what ed , how exactly did sound, and, fally, what was so wrong wh anyway?
MY GAY VOICE AND YOURS
The film "Do I Sound Gay" unpacks the hatred that blocks all of our voic * straight guys with gay voices *
The rults n be seen his new documentary, Do I Sound Gay?, which featur terviews wh lguists, amics, fay and iends, as well as a number of high-profile personali, cludg David Sedaris and Dan Savage. A high-pched, lispg voice that go up at the end has been part of the gay male stereotype for years.
WHAT MEANS TO ‘SOUND GAY’
Another expert that he terviews for the film is a Canadian lguist who studi vol microvariatns between gay and straight men and speculat that many gay men more readily pick up speech s om women.
Intertgly, a straight iend of Thorpe’s has what is nsired to be an archetypal “gay voice” and turns that out he was raised entirely by women at an ashram.
A iend suggts that he was “advertisg” his homosexualy, havg kept a secret for so long.