The Gay Accent

Contents:

• HOW TO SAY “GAY” IN SIGN LANGUAGE
• IS THERE A “GAY VOICE”?
• THE SCIENCE OF GAYDAR
• ‘FAY GUY’ REVEALS SHOCKG TTH BEHD STEWIE’S ACCENT (AND HIS SEXUALY)SPOILER ALERTTHE WRER OF SUNDAY NIGHT’S HUGE EPISO TAK SI THAT ACCENT TWIST, AND GO EP TO HOW AND WHY THE SHOW FALLY EXPLORED WHETHER STEWIE IS GAY. (WARNG: SPOILERS!)KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED MAR. 19, 2018 12:34PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 18, 2018 9:30PM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEASTEVERYTHG YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW ABOUT STEWIE GRIFF IS WRONG. ALL THIS TIME, HE’S BEEN PRETENDG TO BE SOMEONE HE’S NOT. NOT THAT FAY GUY’S RINT SMARM FACTORY ISN’T MOST LIKELY GAY. THAT IS STILL VERY MUCH TE, AND THE 1-YEAR-OLD’S UNRSTANDABLY PLITED SEXUALY WAS ACKNOWLEDGED DIRECTLY FOR THE FIRST TIME SUNDAY NIGHT’S LANDMARK EPISO “SEND STEWIE, PLEASE”—ALSO THE FIRST TIME FOX’S LONG-NNG SERI AIRED WHOUT MERCIAL TERPTN. NO, THE SE IS THAT THE SARDONIC TODDLER HAS BEEN FAKG THAT BRISH ACCENT—THE TALYST FOR HIS NSCENSN, THE TRA THAT HAS FED HIS ENTIRE ATHETIC—THIS WHOLE TIME. STEWIE’S REAL VOICE, TURNS OUT, SOUNDS A LOT LS LIKE SETH MACFARLANE DOG HIS BT BRISH ACCENT THAN JT SOUNDS LIKE SETH MACFARLANE. DON’T BE NFED. UNLIKE STEWIE’S SEXUALY, WHICH HAS BEEN A NNG JOKE LONG ENOUGH THAT FANS HAVE MA SUPERCUTS OF JOK REFERENCG , THIS WASN’T A REVELATN THAT HAS BEEN BREWG THE MDS OF THE FAY GUY CREATIVE TEAM OM THE START. AS GARY JATI, WHO WROTE THE EPISO AND HAS BEEN A PRODUCER AND WRER FOR THE SERI SCE 1999, TELLS THE DAILY BEAST, “WE LERALLY JT CID … IT WASN’T ANYTHG THAT WAS PLANNED AT ALL ANY FORM.”AND, JATI SAYS, DON’T EXPECT ANYONE ELSE TO LEARN STEWIE’S SECRET ANYTIME SOON. WE SAW AT THE END OF THE EPISO JT HOW FAR THE DIABOLIL YOUNGT GRIFF WOULD GO TO MAKE SURE THE TTH DON’T GET OUT.THE EPISO TAK PLACE THROUGHOUT THE URSE OF A THERAPY SSN STEWIE IS FORCED TO ATTEND AFTER SHOVG A CLASSMATE. IT’S A 30-MUTE WDOW TO HIS MD, SECURI, AND PLITED INTY AS HE VERBALLY SPARS WH DR. CORNELI PRCHFIELD, VOICED BY SIR IAN MCKELLEN, AN OLR GAY BRISH MAN WHO TURNS OUT TO BE BOTH THE PERFECT FOIL AND TALYST FOR A PROJECT FOR STEWIE.ESPECIALLY IF YOU WATCHED THE EPISO HAVG BEEN TIPPED TO THE FACT THAT STEWIE’S THLY VEILED SEXUALY WOULD BE ADDRSED, THE SUNDAY-BNCH--CHELSEA’S WORTH OF POP CULTURE REFERENC JATI SCRIPTED ARE A HOOT, OM HIS PLITED FEELGS ABOUT BETHENNY FRANKEL, TO HIS LTG OVER GRANT GT’S INSTAGRAM, AND EVEN ONE CHEEKY QUIP ABOUT JATI’S OWN HBAND, FASHN POLICE HOST AND REALY TV STAR BRAD GORKI. THERE’S A JAW-DROPPG MONOLOGUE, TOO, WHICH STEWIE DRS DOWN DR. PRCHFIELD’S RELATNSHIP WH HIS YOUNGER PARTNER. IT IS SO PACKED OF HYPER-SPECIFIC TAILS RELATG TO PRSURE, SHAME, AND ELISM GAY CULTURE THAT WE ULDN’T BELIEVE WE WERE WATCHG ON FAY GUY. DO STEWIE END UP G OUT? NO. THAT “WOULD BE A SIMPLER WAY OF HANDLG ,” JATI SAYS, THAN THE DIRECTN THE EPISO TAK: ATTEMPTG TO UNRSTAND THE JOURNEY THAT STEWIE STILL NEEDS TO GO ON. POIGNANTLY TE TO LIFE, ’S ONE THAT MIGHT BE FULL OF REPRSN, SELF-LOATHG, AND NIAL, AS HE BATS THE TENSN BETWEEN HIS SIRE TO F WH MATAG HIS FABRITED PERSONALY (AND ACCENT) TO, IF HE’S GOG TO BE DIFFERENT, AT LEAST FEEL SUPERR. SO NOW THAT THE EPISO HAS AIRED, WE CHATTED MORE WH JATI, WHO HAS ALSO SERVED AS A PRODUCER AND WRER ON WILL & GRACE, ABOUT THE SIGNIFINCE OF THE EPISO, WHY HE DON’T WANT TO TAKE STEWIE OUT OF THE CLOSET ENTIRELY, THE ACCENT TWIST, AND THAT CREDIBLY DARK ENDG. AT WHAT POT DID THE CREATIVE TEAM CI THAT THE ACCENT WAS AN AFFECTATN AND NOT STEWIE’S REAL VOICE? IS A TWIST THAT’S BEEN BREWG FOR A WHILE? WE LERALLY JT CID . “WHAT IF STEWIE’S ACCENT IS FAKE?” “OK, THAT ULD BE SOMETHG…” IT WASN’T SOMETHG THAT WAS PLANNED AT ALL ANY SHAPE OR FORM. IT WAS JT SPONTANEO. WILL BE REVISED THE FUTURE?I DON’T THK WILL BE, AND I DON’T THK SHOULD BE REVISED. HE GO TO GREAT LENGTHS TO HI . WE’VE SEEN STEWIE DO A LOT OF DASTARDLY THGS THE URSE OF THE 16 SEASONS THIS SHOW’S BEEN ON THE AIR. HE’S NEVER HAD RAMIFITNS FOR . AND NOW HE HAS TO DO SOMETHG TO PROTECT HIS SECRET. THIS MAN IS SAYG TO HIM, “YOU WILL REGRET THIS ONE DAY.” STEWIE’S HAVG PLEX FEELGS ABOUT SOMETHG HORRIBLE THAT HE DID, AND WHAT HE WILL BE WILLG TO DO TO PROTECT . I THK THAT’S BT LEFT NOT REVISED. IT’S TERTG THAT THE FAKE ACCENT WAS REVEALED THIS EPISO BEE THERE’S SOME REAL RELATABLE GAY PSYCHOLOGY GOG ON THERE. PUTTG ON THE ARTIFICE OF A HEIGHTENED PERSONALY BEE YOU ALREADY FEEL LIKE YOU DON’T F . (LGHS) Y. YEAH, I GUS ’S ALWAYS JT TRYG TO FD MY WAY TO SOMETHG SO THAT ’S TTHFUL, AND ’S TTHFUL FOR STEWIE. THE IA THAT HE NOT ONLY GRAPPL WH HIS SEXUALY, BUT ON TOP OF THAT HE IS EXTRAORDARILY TELLIGENT. HIS TELLIGENCE SETS HIM APART OM EVERYBODY THAT HE TO NTACT WH. THAT’S A VERY AN ISOLATG THG, THE WAY THAT WHEN YOU’RE DIFFERENT, ’S VERY ISOLATG TO FEEL LIKE YOU’RE THE ONLY ONE A SEA OF EVERYONE BEG THE SAME. BUT THEN AT THE SAME TIME, THERE’S SOMETHG ATTRACTIVE ABOUT BEG DIFFERENT. I THK WHAT STEWIE’S FACED WH IS THAT YOU N BE LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE, IF YOU ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE. THE PULL OF, BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE LIKE THOSE PEOPLE. WHAT DO HE WANT? I THK THAT A LOT OF GAY PEOPLE N ALSO INTIFY WH THAT. “I DON’T FEEL LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE, AND I WOULD LIKE TO. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THE THGS THAT MAKE ME ME, I WANT TO BE ABLE TO CELEBRATE THEM. WHY N’T I HAVE BOTH?”THERE’S AN EMOTNAL TELLECT GOG ON, WHERE STEWIE’S HYPER-SELF-AWARE THAT THGS HE’S SAYG MIGHT BE MISNSTED FOR G OUT AS GAY. WHAT’S BEHD THAT AWARENS, THAT HIS BEHAVR AND PERSONALY SIGNALS AS GAYNS, AND HIS SECURY?STEWIE’S EXTREMELY TELLIGENT. WHEN HE WALKS TO THE ROOM, WH A SEND HE INTIFI THAT THERAPIST AS GAY. AND THE WAY HE ACKNOWLEDG THAT IS WHEN HE SAYS TO HIM THAT THIS ISN’T A G OUT SSN AND I’M SURE YOU LICK YOUR CHOMPS EVERY TIME YOU GET ONE OF THOSE. BUT I THK THAT’S ALSO STEWIE’S WAY OF BRGG UP THE SUBJECT, YOU KNOW? “I’M NOT BEG FENSIVE, BUT…” I THK HE’S SEEG AN OPPORTUNY TO SAY, “THIS ISN’T EASY. WHAT YOU THK THIS IS GOG TO BE, ’S NOT. IT’S NOT AS ACTUALIZED.” OBVLY THAT’S VERY ASTUTE FOR A ONE-YEAR-OLD TO BE GRAPPLG ON THAT LEVEL. BUT HE MENTNS TO DIFFE . THAT MONOLOGUE WHICH HE PLETELY EVISCERAT DR. PRCHFIELD’S RELATNSHIP WH HIS YOUNGER PARTNER HAS SOME REALLY SPECIFIC TAILS THAT YOU ALMOST HAVE TO BE A MEMBER OF THE GAY MUNY TO UNRSTAND THE MUTIAE OF.VERY SPECIFIC. I KNOW! I NEVER THOUGHT WOULD END UP BEG SO LONG. MY FEELG WAS THAT I WAS JT GOG TO WRE THIS SANELY LONG AND LET REACH S LOGIL NCLN. I LET GO HOW I FELT NEED TO GO, THE LENGTH NEED TO GO ORR TO BE WHAT I WANTED TO BE. I THOUGHT WE WOULD ED OR TRIM LATER ON. BUT AS YOU SAID, ’S SO SPECIFIC. I GET TO MUTIAE EVEN WH THE GAY MUNY, SPECIFIC WH SPECIFIC WH SPECIFIC. BUT I THK THAT SPECIFICY IS ALSO WHAT GIV A CERTA UNIVERSALY, BEE EVEN IF YOU DON’T GET ALL THE REFERENC YOU UNRSTAND WHAT THEY MEAN. OBVLY THE AGE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DR. PRCHFIELD AND HIS YOUNGER PARTNER IS MUCH BIGGER THAN BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR HBAND, BRAD. BUT YOU ARE OLR THAN YOUR HBAND, AND I WONR IF THERE WAS ANYTHG THARTIC YOU WERE AIRG OUT THAT MONOLOGUE? UM, NO. I MEAN, I’M 10 YEARS OLR. NO, NO. NO THARSIS GETTG OUT. ONLY AS MUCH THAT ’S REALLY FUN TO LET STEWIE LOOSE. IT WAS MORE THE SENSE OF LETTG HIM UNFOLD HIS WGS, A WAY. WE DANCED AROUND A LOT OF TIM. OBVLY YOU N’T OFTEN HAVE THE OPPORTUNY THOSE EPISOS FOR A 10-PAGE MONOLOGUE. BUT THIS EPISO LENDS SELF TO . HE REALLY GETS TO SPREAD HIS WGS AND GO OFF A WAY THAT IS SO SPECIFILLY GAY, AND NOW WAS THE TIME TO DO . SO THE EEDOM AND THE FUN THAT, I THK. SETH MACFARLANE SPOKE YEARS AGO ABOUT HOW HE HAD ONCE WRTEN AN EPISO WHICH STEWIE OUT AS GAY BUT OPTED NOT TO N WH BEE HE’D RATHER HIS SEXUALY REMA AMBIGUO. WHILE STEWIE DON’T E OUT THIS EPISO, DO ADDRS HIS SEXUALY THE MOST DIRECT WAY THE SERI HAS YET. WHY DO YOU THK NOW IS THE TIME TO DO THAT?I THK HASN’T BEEN ADDRSED A DIFFERENT WAY. I THK WE’VE JT GONE EPER SI STEWIE’S MD AND HIS NER WORKGS. SO ’S NOT THAT HE’S G OUT AS GAY THIS EPISO. NOTHG HAS CHANGED OM WHAT SETH SAID ABOUT KEEPG AMBIGUO. I THK THERE’S SOMETHG MORE VULNERABLE AND HUMAN AND ACTUALLY TERTG ABOUT KEEPG AMBIGUO. WE’RE JT KD OF ADDRSG THE THGS GOG AROUND THAT THIS. IT’S NOT A QUTN OF G OUT OR NOT G OUT, WHICH IS A KD OF SIMPLER WAY OF HANDLG . IT’S ALSO A CHANGE OF THE SHOW. IF HE WERE TO E OUT SUDNLY, THE SHOW BE PRE- AND POST-G OUT. THE MORE YOU LEAVE THERE, THE MORE FUN WE N HAVE WH HIM OVER THE URSE OF 20 YEARS. THE SHOW WILL BE ON FOR 20 YEARS PRETTY SOON. IN THE LONGEVY OF THE SHOW I THK ’S BT TO KEEP HIM WHERE HE IS. IN 20 YEARS OF THIS SHOW AND WH THIS CHARACTER, THIS IS MAYBE HIS BIGGT EPISO. IT’S THE FIRST TIME THE SHOW HAS AIRED WH NO MERCIAL BREAK. IT’S JT HIM AND ONE OTHER CHARACTER. HOW DO RANK FOR YOU TERMS OF YOUR WORK WH THE SHOW?WHAT’S GREAT ABOUT THIS SHOW IS GO ALL DIFFERENT PLAC AND ’S WILLG TO DO SO MANY DIFFERENT KDS OF EPISOS. THIS IS THE MOST EEDOM I FELT I’VE HAD. IT FELT GREAT TO HAVE A CHARACTER THAT YOU KNOW SO WELL AND BE ABLE TO LEARN NEW THGS ABOUT HIM. IT WAS REALLY A GIFT. KEV FALLON
• GAY ACCENT IN ENGLISH

HOW TO SAY “GAY” IN SIGN LANGUAGE

If you want to bsh up on your queer signs, here’s how to say “gay” sign language! Start wh the hand sign for “gay” and work your way up toward the rt of the LGBTQ dictnary! Not long after Thorpe broke up wh his boyiend, he began thkg about the way he speaks, and the way other gay men speak, and why both sudnly bothered him so much.

”This is how he scrib the moment his documentary “Do I Sound Gay?, ” which opens this weekend at the IFC Center.

He terviews gay public figur, cludg David Sedaris, Tim Gunn, Don Lemon, and Gee Takei, who have had to listen to themselv for a livg.

IS THERE A “GAY VOICE”?

Gay adolcents, Thorpe pots out, often learn that the “tell” of their sexualy is their voic, even more so than physily—a limp wrist is easier to straighten out than an flectn. Even wh the gay datg muny (and gay porn), hyper-masculy is habually prized, so self-disgt gets easily turned back outward. ”Of urse, not all gay men have the same voice, or any “gay” voice: is a stereotype, after all.

THE SCIENCE OF GAYDAR

Thorpe talks to a straight iend who sounds “gay” (he grew up on an ashram, surround by women), and a gay iend who sounds “straight” (he has jock brothers). Obvly, the ncln—the film’s, and me—is to dissociate the “gay voice” om shame and reattach to pri, but isn’t so easy. “For many gay men, that’s the last vtige, that’s the last chunk of ternalized homophobia, is this hatred of how they sound, ” Dan Savage tells Thorpe.

One of the ways gay people tend to pensate, the film suggts, is to adopt the supercil speech patterns of the leisure class, i. The CNN anchor Don Lemon tells Thorpe that he worked harr to ntralize his Southern black accent than his “gay” accent.

(The phenomenon of gay whe men imatg black women’s speech is s own thorny subtegory. As gays and lbians ga cultural pal, helped along by equaly victori like the one jt hand down by the Supreme Court, “gay voice” will surely evolve, too.

‘FAY GUY’ REVEALS SHOCKG TTH BEHD STEWIE’S ACCENT (AND HIS SEXUALY)SPOILER ALERTTHE WRER OF SUNDAY NIGHT’S HUGE EPISO TAK SI THAT ACCENT TWIST, AND GO EP TO HOW AND WHY THE SHOW FALLY EXPLORED WHETHER STEWIE IS GAY. (WARNG: SPOILERS!)KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED MAR. 19, 2018 12:34PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 18, 2018 9:30PM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEASTEVERYTHG YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW ABOUT STEWIE GRIFF IS WRONG. ALL THIS TIME, HE’S BEEN PRETENDG TO BE SOMEONE HE’S NOT. NOT THAT FAY GUY’S RINT SMARM FACTORY ISN’T MOST LIKELY GAY. THAT IS STILL VERY MUCH TE, AND THE 1-YEAR-OLD’S UNRSTANDABLY PLITED SEXUALY WAS ACKNOWLEDGED DIRECTLY FOR THE FIRST TIME SUNDAY NIGHT’S LANDMARK EPISO “SEND STEWIE, PLEASE”—ALSO THE FIRST TIME FOX’S LONG-NNG SERI AIRED WHOUT MERCIAL TERPTN. NO, THE SE IS THAT THE SARDONIC TODDLER HAS BEEN FAKG THAT BRISH ACCENT—THE TALYST FOR HIS NSCENSN, THE TRA THAT HAS FED HIS ENTIRE ATHETIC—THIS WHOLE TIME. STEWIE’S REAL VOICE, TURNS OUT, SOUNDS A LOT LS LIKE SETH MACFARLANE DOG HIS BT BRISH ACCENT THAN JT SOUNDS LIKE SETH MACFARLANE. DON’T BE NFED. UNLIKE STEWIE’S SEXUALY, WHICH HAS BEEN A NNG JOKE LONG ENOUGH THAT FANS HAVE MA SUPERCUTS OF JOK REFERENCG , THIS WASN’T A REVELATN THAT HAS BEEN BREWG THE MDS OF THE FAY GUY CREATIVE TEAM OM THE START. AS GARY JATI, WHO WROTE THE EPISO AND HAS BEEN A PRODUCER AND WRER FOR THE SERI SCE 1999, TELLS THE DAILY BEAST, “WE LERALLY JT CID … IT WASN’T ANYTHG THAT WAS PLANNED AT ALL ANY FORM.”AND, JATI SAYS, DON’T EXPECT ANYONE ELSE TO LEARN STEWIE’S SECRET ANYTIME SOON. WE SAW AT THE END OF THE EPISO JT HOW FAR THE DIABOLIL YOUNGT GRIFF WOULD GO TO MAKE SURE THE TTH DON’T GET OUT.THE EPISO TAK PLACE THROUGHOUT THE URSE OF A THERAPY SSN STEWIE IS FORCED TO ATTEND AFTER SHOVG A CLASSMATE. IT’S A 30-MUTE WDOW TO HIS MD, SECURI, AND PLITED INTY AS HE VERBALLY SPARS WH DR. CORNELI PRCHFIELD, VOICED BY SIR IAN MCKELLEN, AN OLR GAY BRISH MAN WHO TURNS OUT TO BE BOTH THE PERFECT FOIL AND TALYST FOR A PROJECT FOR STEWIE.ESPECIALLY IF YOU WATCHED THE EPISO HAVG BEEN TIPPED TO THE FACT THAT STEWIE’S THLY VEILED SEXUALY WOULD BE ADDRSED, THE SUNDAY-BNCH--CHELSEA’S WORTH OF POP CULTURE REFERENC JATI SCRIPTED ARE A HOOT, OM HIS PLITED FEELGS ABOUT BETHENNY FRANKEL, TO HIS LTG OVER GRANT GT’S INSTAGRAM, AND EVEN ONE CHEEKY QUIP ABOUT JATI’S OWN HBAND, FASHN POLICE HOST AND REALY TV STAR BRAD GORKI. THERE’S A JAW-DROPPG MONOLOGUE, TOO, WHICH STEWIE DRS DOWN DR. PRCHFIELD’S RELATNSHIP WH HIS YOUNGER PARTNER. IT IS SO PACKED OF HYPER-SPECIFIC TAILS RELATG TO PRSURE, SHAME, AND ELISM GAY CULTURE THAT WE ULDN’T BELIEVE WE WERE WATCHG ON FAY GUY. DO STEWIE END UP G OUT? NO. THAT “WOULD BE A SIMPLER WAY OF HANDLG ,” JATI SAYS, THAN THE DIRECTN THE EPISO TAK: ATTEMPTG TO UNRSTAND THE JOURNEY THAT STEWIE STILL NEEDS TO GO ON. POIGNANTLY TE TO LIFE, ’S ONE THAT MIGHT BE FULL OF REPRSN, SELF-LOATHG, AND NIAL, AS HE BATS THE TENSN BETWEEN HIS SIRE TO F WH MATAG HIS FABRITED PERSONALY (AND ACCENT) TO, IF HE’S GOG TO BE DIFFERENT, AT LEAST FEEL SUPERR. SO NOW THAT THE EPISO HAS AIRED, WE CHATTED MORE WH JATI, WHO HAS ALSO SERVED AS A PRODUCER AND WRER ON WILL & GRACE, ABOUT THE SIGNIFINCE OF THE EPISO, WHY HE DON’T WANT TO TAKE STEWIE OUT OF THE CLOSET ENTIRELY, THE ACCENT TWIST, AND THAT CREDIBLY DARK ENDG. AT WHAT POT DID THE CREATIVE TEAM CI THAT THE ACCENT WAS AN AFFECTATN AND NOT STEWIE’S REAL VOICE? IS A TWIST THAT’S BEEN BREWG FOR A WHILE? WE LERALLY JT CID . “WHAT IF STEWIE’S ACCENT IS FAKE?” “OK, THAT ULD BE SOMETHG…” IT WASN’T SOMETHG THAT WAS PLANNED AT ALL ANY SHAPE OR FORM. IT WAS JT SPONTANEO. WILL BE REVISED THE FUTURE?I DON’T THK WILL BE, AND I DON’T THK SHOULD BE REVISED. HE GO TO GREAT LENGTHS TO HI . WE’VE SEEN STEWIE DO A LOT OF DASTARDLY THGS THE URSE OF THE 16 SEASONS THIS SHOW’S BEEN ON THE AIR. HE’S NEVER HAD RAMIFITNS FOR . AND NOW HE HAS TO DO SOMETHG TO PROTECT HIS SECRET. THIS MAN IS SAYG TO HIM, “YOU WILL REGRET THIS ONE DAY.” STEWIE’S HAVG PLEX FEELGS ABOUT SOMETHG HORRIBLE THAT HE DID, AND WHAT HE WILL BE WILLG TO DO TO PROTECT . I THK THAT’S BT LEFT NOT REVISED. IT’S TERTG THAT THE FAKE ACCENT WAS REVEALED THIS EPISO BEE THERE’S SOME REAL RELATABLE GAY PSYCHOLOGY GOG ON THERE. PUTTG ON THE ARTIFICE OF A HEIGHTENED PERSONALY BEE YOU ALREADY FEEL LIKE YOU DON’T F . (LGHS) Y. YEAH, I GUS ’S ALWAYS JT TRYG TO FD MY WAY TO SOMETHG SO THAT ’S TTHFUL, AND ’S TTHFUL FOR STEWIE. THE IA THAT HE NOT ONLY GRAPPL WH HIS SEXUALY, BUT ON TOP OF THAT HE IS EXTRAORDARILY TELLIGENT. HIS TELLIGENCE SETS HIM APART OM EVERYBODY THAT HE TO NTACT WH. THAT’S A VERY AN ISOLATG THG, THE WAY THAT WHEN YOU’RE DIFFERENT, ’S VERY ISOLATG TO FEEL LIKE YOU’RE THE ONLY ONE A SEA OF EVERYONE BEG THE SAME. BUT THEN AT THE SAME TIME, THERE’S SOMETHG ATTRACTIVE ABOUT BEG DIFFERENT. I THK WHAT STEWIE’S FACED WH IS THAT YOU N BE LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE, IF YOU ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE. THE PULL OF, BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE LIKE THOSE PEOPLE. WHAT DO HE WANT? I THK THAT A LOT OF GAY PEOPLE N ALSO INTIFY WH THAT. “I DON’T FEEL LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE, AND I WOULD LIKE TO. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THE THGS THAT MAKE ME ME, I WANT TO BE ABLE TO CELEBRATE THEM. WHY N’T I HAVE BOTH?”THERE’S AN EMOTNAL TELLECT GOG ON, WHERE STEWIE’S HYPER-SELF-AWARE THAT THGS HE’S SAYG MIGHT BE MISNSTED FOR G OUT AS GAY. WHAT’S BEHD THAT AWARENS, THAT HIS BEHAVR AND PERSONALY SIGNALS AS GAYNS, AND HIS SECURY?STEWIE’S EXTREMELY TELLIGENT. WHEN HE WALKS TO THE ROOM, WH A SEND HE INTIFI THAT THERAPIST AS GAY. AND THE WAY HE ACKNOWLEDG THAT IS WHEN HE SAYS TO HIM THAT THIS ISN’T A G OUT SSN AND I’M SURE YOU LICK YOUR CHOMPS EVERY TIME YOU GET ONE OF THOSE. BUT I THK THAT’S ALSO STEWIE’S WAY OF BRGG UP THE SUBJECT, YOU KNOW? “I’M NOT BEG FENSIVE, BUT…” I THK HE’S SEEG AN OPPORTUNY TO SAY, “THIS ISN’T EASY. WHAT YOU THK THIS IS GOG TO BE, ’S NOT. IT’S NOT AS ACTUALIZED.” OBVLY THAT’S VERY ASTUTE FOR A ONE-YEAR-OLD TO BE GRAPPLG ON THAT LEVEL. BUT HE MENTNS TO DIFFE . THAT MONOLOGUE WHICH HE PLETELY EVISCERAT DR. PRCHFIELD’S RELATNSHIP WH HIS YOUNGER PARTNER HAS SOME REALLY SPECIFIC TAILS THAT YOU ALMOST HAVE TO BE A MEMBER OF THE GAY MUNY TO UNRSTAND THE MUTIAE OF.VERY SPECIFIC. I KNOW! I NEVER THOUGHT WOULD END UP BEG SO LONG. MY FEELG WAS THAT I WAS JT GOG TO WRE THIS SANELY LONG AND LET REACH S LOGIL NCLN. I LET GO HOW I FELT NEED TO GO, THE LENGTH NEED TO GO ORR TO BE WHAT I WANTED TO BE. I THOUGHT WE WOULD ED OR TRIM LATER ON. BUT AS YOU SAID, ’S SO SPECIFIC. I GET TO MUTIAE EVEN WH THE GAY MUNY, SPECIFIC WH SPECIFIC WH SPECIFIC. BUT I THK THAT SPECIFICY IS ALSO WHAT GIV A CERTA UNIVERSALY, BEE EVEN IF YOU DON’T GET ALL THE REFERENC YOU UNRSTAND WHAT THEY MEAN. OBVLY THE AGE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DR. PRCHFIELD AND HIS YOUNGER PARTNER IS MUCH BIGGER THAN BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR HBAND, BRAD. BUT YOU ARE OLR THAN YOUR HBAND, AND I WONR IF THERE WAS ANYTHG THARTIC YOU WERE AIRG OUT THAT MONOLOGUE? UM, NO. I MEAN, I’M 10 YEARS OLR. NO, NO. NO THARSIS GETTG OUT. ONLY AS MUCH THAT ’S REALLY FUN TO LET STEWIE LOOSE. IT WAS MORE THE SENSE OF LETTG HIM UNFOLD HIS WGS, A WAY. WE DANCED AROUND A LOT OF TIM. OBVLY YOU N’T OFTEN HAVE THE OPPORTUNY THOSE EPISOS FOR A 10-PAGE MONOLOGUE. BUT THIS EPISO LENDS SELF TO . HE REALLY GETS TO SPREAD HIS WGS AND GO OFF A WAY THAT IS SO SPECIFILLY GAY, AND NOW WAS THE TIME TO DO . SO THE EEDOM AND THE FUN THAT, I THK. SETH MACFARLANE SPOKE YEARS AGO ABOUT HOW HE HAD ONCE WRTEN AN EPISO WHICH STEWIE OUT AS GAY BUT OPTED NOT TO N WH BEE HE’D RATHER HIS SEXUALY REMA AMBIGUO. WHILE STEWIE DON’T E OUT THIS EPISO, DO ADDRS HIS SEXUALY THE MOST DIRECT WAY THE SERI HAS YET. WHY DO YOU THK NOW IS THE TIME TO DO THAT?I THK HASN’T BEEN ADDRSED A DIFFERENT WAY. I THK WE’VE JT GONE EPER SI STEWIE’S MD AND HIS NER WORKGS. SO ’S NOT THAT HE’S G OUT AS GAY THIS EPISO. NOTHG HAS CHANGED OM WHAT SETH SAID ABOUT KEEPG AMBIGUO. I THK THERE’S SOMETHG MORE VULNERABLE AND HUMAN AND ACTUALLY TERTG ABOUT KEEPG AMBIGUO. WE’RE JT KD OF ADDRSG THE THGS GOG AROUND THAT THIS. IT’S NOT A QUTN OF G OUT OR NOT G OUT, WHICH IS A KD OF SIMPLER WAY OF HANDLG . IT’S ALSO A CHANGE OF THE SHOW. IF HE WERE TO E OUT SUDNLY, THE SHOW BE PRE- AND POST-G OUT. THE MORE YOU LEAVE THERE, THE MORE FUN WE N HAVE WH HIM OVER THE URSE OF 20 YEARS. THE SHOW WILL BE ON FOR 20 YEARS PRETTY SOON. IN THE LONGEVY OF THE SHOW I THK ’S BT TO KEEP HIM WHERE HE IS. IN 20 YEARS OF THIS SHOW AND WH THIS CHARACTER, THIS IS MAYBE HIS BIGGT EPISO. IT’S THE FIRST TIME THE SHOW HAS AIRED WH NO MERCIAL BREAK. IT’S JT HIM AND ONE OTHER CHARACTER. HOW DO RANK FOR YOU TERMS OF YOUR WORK WH THE SHOW?WHAT’S GREAT ABOUT THIS SHOW IS GO ALL DIFFERENT PLAC AND ’S WILLG TO DO SO MANY DIFFERENT KDS OF EPISOS. THIS IS THE MOST EEDOM I FELT I’VE HAD. IT FELT GREAT TO HAVE A CHARACTER THAT YOU KNOW SO WELL AND BE ABLE TO LEARN NEW THGS ABOUT HIM. IT WAS REALLY A GIFT. KEV FALLON

The Science of Gaydar - New Rearch on Everythg From Voice Pch to Hair Whorl -- New York Magaze - Nymag. EXAMPLE A: Hair Whorl (Men) Gay men are more likely than straight men to have a unterclockwise whorl. I know this om strangers who fd gay people offensive enough to elic a remark—tlls om b wdows, to e a recent example—as well as om untls sual social engagements which people easily assume my orientatn, no sensive gaydar necsary.

GAY ACCENT IN ENGLISH

I once placed a personal ad which I scribed myself as “gay-actg/gay-appearg, ” partly as a jab at my peers who prefer to be thought of as “str8” but mostly bee ’s jt who I am. Maybe a better way to phrase would have been “third-sexer, ” the tegory advanced by the gay German sexologist Magn Hirschfeld 100 years ago. That’s what we mean by gaydar—not the skill of the viewer so much as the telltale signs most gay people project, the set of tras that make unmistakably one.

A small nstellatn of rearchers is specifilly analyzg the tras and characteristics that, though more pronounced some than others, not only make gay but also make appear gay.