What do mean to sound Gay!?

Contents:

• I DUNNO MAN SEEMS KDA GAY TO ME MEME GENERATOR
• SOUNDS GAY TO ME
• I DON'T KNOW MAN, SEEMS KDA GAY TO ME
• ‘WHO SOUNDS GAY?’
• I'M GAY SOUND
• FILMMAKER AND SPEECH PATHOLOGIST WEIGH IN ON WHAT IT MEANS TO 'SOUND GAY'
• WHAT MEANS TO ‘SOUND GAY’
• “GAY” SOUNDG!?!
• GAY SOUNDS
• SOUNDS GAY, I’M 

I DUNNO MAN SEEMS KDA GAY TO ME MEME GENERATOR

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Summary: This short documentary explor one theory of why some people sound stereotypilly “gay.

I’ve always wonred why some men sound gay and others don’t. To me Kris sounds gay and Matt sounds straight. The cleart most lady-like gay one.

SOUNDS GAY TO ME

And ’s not so much that a kid who is gog to be gay later life is gog to say I want to sound like a woman, so much as a kid is intifyg here is a particular speaker, and here is a particular of that person’s speech that ptur what I fd so engagg about them and I’m gog to emulate that. People want gay men to be like women and maybe they picked up on the fact that many of the characteristics of gay- soundg voic are feme characteristics but they’ve got all wrong.

Bee a lot of those gay-soundg voic are om straight guys. I knew I was gay when I was like 11.

I DON'T KNOW MAN, SEEMS KDA GAY TO ME

Do I have a gay voice? The big problem i have is when people assume I’m not [gay] and then I’m anx are they gog to say somethg stupid?

‘WHO SOUNDS GAY?’

In the end, if someone thks I’m gay, then they’re wrong... What do mean to sound Gay!?

Sounds Gay tells stori of queer people whose liv have been transformed by mic. Her “gay mom” Renée is 74. The mician -- Black, gay and a fixture the mimalist classil mic scene of the 1970s and 80s -- wrote songs that mand a lot of the listener.

Sounds Gay brgs all that nfince and skill but also has the fire and passn of a personal project long the works. In Do I Sound Gay?, Thorpe search for the orig of the "gay voice" stereotype.

I'M GAY SOUND

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. " 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.

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

"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.... 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 MEANS TO ‘SOUND GAY’

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.

On Thorpe's gay iends also stgglg to accept their voic Thorpe: One of the revelatns of makg this film was that this is somethg that had always bothered me and every time, basilly, I talk to a gay man I would fd out that he also had eher spent a lot of time thkg about his voice or ed to be self-nsc about his voice or still felt self-nsc about his voice. And I learn that the other one has [not only] stggled wh his voice but jt wh beg gay general. Most of are faiar wh the stereotype of a “gay voice.

“GAY” SOUNDG!?!

Do gay men actually sound different than straight men? The are the qutns a new documentary, “Do I Sound Gay? ” It’s a fascatg and nuanced film, which the filmmaker, David Thorpe,  his feelgs about his voice to look at attus toward homosexualy.

It rais a plited discsn about gay pri, lgerg homophobia, disguised misogyny, and the extent to which we all alter the image that we prent to the the film begs, Thorpe is disturbed bee he realiz he don’t like his voice any more. He rri out thoughtful nversatns wh his iends and proment gay and lbian figur – cludg Gee Takei, David Sedaris, Dan Savage, Margaret Cho and Don Lemon – about what means to “sound gay. But so dog, v everyone to thk about what their own voice says about who they are, where they me om, and where they want to science of “the gay voice”To start wh, the stereotypil “gay voice” isn’t necsarily a study published 2003, Ron Smyth, a lguist at the Universy of Toronto, found that participants readily separated rerdgs of 25 diverse voic to those who “sound gay” and those who “sound straight.

” People picked up on featur of the gay stereotype – voic that were higher and more melod were more often labeled "gay. In Smyth's study, people rrectly gused a man’s sexualy about 60 percent of the time, only a ltle better than another small study at the Universy of Hawaii, both gay and straight listeners were equally as likely to misclassify people as gay or straight.

GAY SOUNDS

In fact, the straight men wh so-lled gay voic weren't aware that people thought they sound gay at turns out that what most people perceive as a stereotypil "gay voice" is jt a male voice that sounds more stereotypilly feme -- maly, higher pched and more melod.

SOUNDS GAY, I’M 

And that often has more to do wh the voic that a person intified wh as they grew up, rather than and other rearchers say some men, both gay and straight, velop more feme voic bee they are fluenced by women when they are young.

But that don't mean that they are gay.

"Some men wh 'gay voic' are straight, and some men wh 'straight voic' are gay, " says Smyth. "There are butch and fem gay men, there are butch and fem straight men, there are butch and fem straight women.

If you've ever found yourself talkg to someone wh a different accent and gradually emulatg them, you're faiar wh the gay men, adoptg what's lled "mp" -- a theatril gay accent, like an old-school starlet -- n be a way of embracg their inty. “As a hly mted gay man, I learned how mpg up uld be liberatg, ” Thorpe says the there may be more subtle ways that sexualy and our sense of self fluence our voic.

Benjam Munson, who studi language and speech at the Universy of Mnota, found one study that gay men did e a slightly different pronunciatn than straight men. However, the difference wasn’t the stereotypil “gay voice, ” but a tenncy to e a more ntemporary, pan-Amerin accent, rather than the old-fashned Mnota accent (like  the movie “Fargo") says that the gay men he terviewed may have wanted to nvey an inty that is more stylish and cuttg edge.

“As speakers of a language, we have lots of eedom how we pronounce sounds … People explo that variatn to create different social meangs, " he those who are proud n still feel stigma“Do I Sound Gay?

” shows that even men who are out and proud may still rry wh them some shame about havg a stereotypil “gay voice, ” even if those feelgs are Savage, a gay activist and thor, argu  the film that this is a natural nsequence of boys beg bullied for walkg and talkg a certa way when they are young. Misogyny and homophobia are “evil tws, ” which both have a root sexism and valug thgs that are female, says Thorpe.