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• THE BT GAY SNA BERL AND ONE OF... - DER BOILER
• HONG KONG’S BT GAY SNAS
• HISTORY LSON: WHY SNAS REMA IMPORTANT TO GAY CULTURE
• THE 10 BEST TOKYO GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS TOKYO

THE BT GAY SNA BERL AND ONE OF... - DER BOILER

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Bisexual men are perceived to sound more mascule than men who are straight, acrdg to a study of Atralian subjects.Amics at the Universy of Sydney pared the voic of gay, straight and bisexual men a study volvg 160 people.In the rearch led by clil psychologist Jam Morandi, people were reced to analyse the voic of 60 men, 20 of whom were gay, 20 straight and 20 bisexual. They were then asked to rate the men on their sexual orientatn g a sle om zero (exclively heterosexual) to 10 (exclively homosexual).Listeners were also asked to rate each man’s perceived level of femy or masculy the voic on a siar sle.The men volved the study were asked to rerd themselv on a smartphone recg the first two l of the Atralian natnal anthem.Voice sampl were then modified to remove any background noise while volume levels were ma the same to ensure nsistency.Rults om the study showed listeners uld distguish between gay and straight men’s voic wh an accuracy of 62 per cent, apparently nsistent wh prev rearch.However, the study participants uld not terme any differenc between bisexual and straight men’s voic wh any gree of accuracy. The thors said their rearch showed bisexual men’s voic were perceived as beg more exclively attracted to women pared wh both gay and straight men’s voic.Bisexual men’s voic were rated as more mascule than both gay and straight men’s voic.Rearchers claimed the abily to intify a man’s bisexual inty om his voice alone uld have cril social implitns such as helpg to rce feelgs of alienatn.‘Voice may unter visibily many bisexuals feel’An abstract of the study, tled Can listeners tect if a man is bisexual om his voice alone, reads: “The prent study examed whether bisexual men n be intified om their voic ak to how gay men n be intified on their voice alone.“If this is the se, voice may be an important target of discrimatn on the one hand but may also unter the visibily many bisexuals feel (if their bisexual inti n be apprehend by their voice alone, whout explic disclosure required).“The fdgs may also she light on whether bisexual male voic, like gay male voic, differ om straight voic terms of their genr non-nformy – a qutn that to date has not been examed.”But amics noted the rearch was limed on the grounds all men who participated the study are Atralian, which may not be reflected among wir cultur.And the thors nced the study did not ntrol for the rerdg environment or microphone-to-mouth distance, which uld have affected the qualy of the voice sampl.The thors said the fdgs suggted that while the voic of bisexual men the sample were perceived as more mascule and attracted to femal, listeners did not associate this imprsn wh bisexualy.As a rult, while bisexual men may appear to be at lower risk of facg voice-based intifitn and discrimatn than gay men, they may often be mistaken as beg straight.The study was published the Journal of Sex Rearch.

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HISTORY LSON: WHY SNAS REMA IMPORTANT TO GAY CULTURE

This is a ntuatn of the history of an important stutn that has been re to gay culture for many first known rerdg of same-sex sexual activi snas, Italy. In 1492, thori engaged a purge agast the “vice of sodomy”, nvictg 44 men for homosexual relatns, who they picked up taverns, baths and si (sheds and ho ed for illic sex).

While smattergs of siar rerdgs exist the followg centuri, wasn't until the late 19th Century that snas beme a standard place for gay sex to late 19th and early 20th centuri when queer people began to gather more regularly public spac, and turn, me to be fed unr the banner of ‘homosexual’. As this occurred, signifint reprsn of gay men and homosexual acts beme predomant across the wtern world as men ught havg gay sex beme subjected to huiatn, imprisonment, and vlence. In a webpage that tails the history of gay snas, “numero urt rerds om the turn of the century nta s of men who were arrted after neighbours, landlords, policemen and YMCA janors looked through keyhol, or broke down doors to disver men havg sex wh each other.

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”To al wh this, gay — public plac such as parks, toilet blocks, and movie theatr, where they uld have sex but wh ls of a threat of beg ught by thori. Digned for the general public to e , relax, and unwd, gay men ed the relative anonymy and privacy of snas as a safe space for sexual enunters. Inially many snas operators reacted strongly agast this, wh some llg the police on gay men, or hirg private guards to protect their facili., ’s reported that New York police nducted a raid agast a sna the Ariston Hotel, arrtg 26 men, wh twelve eventually beg brought to trial on sodomy owners, however, turned a bld eye to the activi,.

In dog so, the snas beme an important venue for gay men.

In the spac men had a safe venue to have sex— one that me wh signifintly ls risk of beg ught that other gay muni beme more visible the post-war era, the 1950s saw dited gay snas beg to open.