We might thk we know what a gay person sounds like. But there are veats to the cliche — and ‘voice-shamg’ tells a lot more about our culture than do about the person speakg
Contents:
- SOUNDS GAY, I’M
- WHAT MEANS TO ‘SOUND GAY’
- THIS IS WHY SOME MEN ‘SOUND GAY’ – EVEN IF THEY’RE NOT
- SOUNDS GAY, I’M IN
- SOUNDS GAY I’M IN SHIRT
- DO YOU SOUND GAY? WHAT OUR VOIC TELL – AND WHAT THEY DON’T
- WHAT DO IT MEAN TO SOUND GAY?
- I'M GAY SOUND
SOUNDS GAY, I’M
"My bs and your law practice ought to make a pretty gay team, Dave." - Mark Twa (Century Magaze, Feb. 1894) "I remember" the pearl-clutchers are wont to say, "when beg gay jt meant beg happy." There's a certa fiance to this statement, often leavg me to fer the ntuatn as ".. people like you didn't exist".… * sounds gay i'm in meaning *
“My bs and your law practice ought to make a pretty gay team, Dave.
“I remember” the pearl-clutchers are wont to say, “when beg gay jt meant beg happy. Siarly nonsensil is the assumptn that this humble three-letter word enjoyed a centuri-long untroubled existence as a synonym for “happy” before gettg -opted by the Gay Lguistics Agenda* some time around 1967. Earlit of the word gay.
WHAT MEANS TO ‘SOUND GAY’
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By the 13th and 14th centuri gay was ed adjectivally of anythg (or anyone) bright, lourful, or generally reee, and this fn has ed persevered for a signifint perd of time tanm wh s later variants.
“Som gay broght yow th vp on the viroot”.
Gay also appears at a noun this perd, somethg which may be more regnisable today pound forms such as nosegay – a ltle bundle of flowers tradnally given as a gift. Now obsolete, gays would have been ivolo amements for children such as toys or picture books.
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. * sounds gay i'm in meaning *
As recently as 1922, ventor Leo Gerstenzang veloped the first mercial tton swabs and lnched them on an unspectg public as Q-Tips Baby Gays. Bright beme gdy and reee beme rels and sooner or later a gay person uld jt as easily be unrstood as a lasciv or hedonistic one. It’s worth emphasisg that the two terpretatns uld fortably -exist: Troil & Crisey (1385) Chcer scrib a lover’s heart as “sh and gay”, whilst The Miller’s Tale (1390) a “gay gerl” is a wanton one.
It’s this latter fn which is believed to have veloped to our ntemporary unrstandg of gay as referrg to homosexualy.
From the early 17th century, to go gay was to viate om the straight and narrow favour of a gdier, more dissolute liftyle. Charl Victor Fremy was sometim very, very gay. In the US, gog gay had a particular meang among Quakers: renouncg pla livg and givg onelf over to pleasur such as drkg, gamblg, and dancg ( other words, behavg like the Church of England).
SOUNDS GAY, I’M IN
It’s okay to be gay. It’s also fun, sweet and excg! From the handkerchief to the leather muny to polari, gay men have persevered agast many odds their advocy to make love genrls." name="scriptn * sounds gay i'm in meaning *
In the late 18th-19th centuri, a gay woman uld also be a prostute and a gay hoe a brothel – both phemistic given the word’s more mastream terpretatns. Gay the 20th century.
“…and the whole rough and tumble of homosexual activy”.
SOUNDS GAY I’M IN SHIRT
Sounds Gay I'm In Shirt. It means that if you're gay, I will jo "I'm " is an alternate form of "unt me " which has the same meang as "clu me". * sounds gay i'm in meaning *
Given the word’s pluraly of terpretatn – and the forced clanste nature of non cis/het relatnships – there is some bate as to the first rerd e of gay meang a homosexual person or qualy. This meang is generally unrstood to have emerged as US slang, and the OED c s first example as Gert Ste’s Geography and Plays (1922): “Helen Furr and Gea Keene lived together then… They were together then and traveled to another place and stayed there and were gay very gay there, jt gay there.
DO YOU SOUND GAY? WHAT OUR VOIC TELL – AND WHAT THEY DON’T
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They were both gay there. Openg wh queer in Gert Ste discsg a relatnship between women rais another nsiratn: then, as now, gay is eher clive or exclive of the lbian muny pendg on your source. It’s rag (gay) ts and dogs.
WHAT DO IT MEAN TO SOUND GAY?
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In the 17th and 18th centuri, for stance, the art of poetry and lerary cricism was known as the gay science (I’m sayg nothg) and the perd om 1890-1900 was, due to rapid prospery for some, looked back on as The Gay Neti (or, ed, The Nghty Neti). In the early 20th century, ‘falsi’ (padd bosom-enhancers) were known as gay ceivers, while gettg gay was to be overly faiar or prumptuo.
And don’t go fettg the difference between a gay dog (a self-dulgent Lothar) and a gay t (an apprentice vagrant, who acts as lookout for his olr master). Most of are faiar wh the stereotype of a “gay voice.
Do gay men actually sound different than straight men? The are the qutns a new documentary, “Do I Sound Gay?
I'M GAY SOUND
” It’s a fascatg and nuanced film, which the filmmaker, David Thorpe, his feelgs about his voice to look at attus toward homosexualy.