Do you sound gay? What our voic tell – and what they don’t | David Shariatmadari | The Guardian

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DO YOU SOUND GAY? WHAT OUR VOIC TELL – AND WHAT THEY DON’T

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 * can you be camp but not gay *

“You don’t seem gay.

THE NFLATN OF 'MP' AND 'GAY'

I n’t easily pute what means to be gay if ’s not havg jt intified yourself wh that label. You haven’t – at least that moment, at that party – exhibed the mannerisms lked many people’s mds wh male homosexualy.

The notn you would be pleased to fd this out reveals an unthkg prejudice: how rehg is to meet a gay who don’t make a meal of .

CAN PEOPLE STOP BEG GAY?

Maybe I’m more “gay”. Y, seemg gay – broadly speakg, beg mp – is a way of holdg onelf, a way of drsg, but ’s large part a way of speakg.

His qut to unrstand why he talks the way he do is the subject of a new documentary, Do I Sound Gay? Apart om anythg else, ’s not the prerve of gay men or even human begs. They’re then asked to rate each one by perceived “gayns”.

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The nflatn of 'mp' and 'gay' — Digal Spy .

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