The Gay Voice - Universy of Toronto Magaze

Contents:

• THE 55 PHRAS GAY MEN MOST OFTEN GO THROUGH...
• GAY SLANG 101
• SYNONYMS OF GAY
• RHYME WH GAY
• THE GAY VOICE
• GAY
• WHAT MEANS TO ‘SOUND GAY’
• IS THERE A “GAY VOICE”?
• WHAT DO IT MEAN TO SOUND GAY?
• FILMMAKER AND SPEECH PATHOLOGIST WEIGH IN ON WHAT IT MEANS TO 'SOUND GAY'

THE 55 PHRAS GAY MEN MOST OFTEN GO THROUGH...

Aromantic Homosexual — A person who has sexual attractn to the same genr, but they do not experience romantic attractn.

Gay is also an inty term ed to scribe a male-intified person who is attracted to other male-intified people a romantic, sexual, and/or emotnal sense.

Homophobia — Homophobia means to have an irratnal fear or tolerance of people who are homosexual or havg feelgs of homosexualy.

GAY SLANG 101

LGBTQ+ — LBGT is an abbreviatn for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (often ed to enpass sexual preference and genr inti that do not rrpond to heterosexual norms). LGBTIQAPD – Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer and/or Qutng, Intersex, Asexual and/or Ally, Pansexual, and Demi-sexual.

The words at the top of the list are the on most associated wh homosexual, and as you go down the relatedns be more slight. By flt, the words are sorted by relevance/relatedns, but you n also get the most mon homosexual terms by g the menu below, and there's also the optn to sort the words alphabetilly so you n get homosexual words startg wh a particular letter. So although you might see some synonyms of homosexual the list below, many of the words below will have other relatnships wh homosexual - you uld see a word wh the exact oppose meang the word list, for example.

So 's the sort of list that would be eful for helpg you build a homosexual vobulary list, or jt a general homosexual word list for whatever purpose, but 's not necsarily gog to be eful if you're lookg for words that mean the same thg as homosexual (though still might be handy for that). If you don't fd what you're lookg for the list below, or if there's some sort of bug and 's not displayg homosexual related words, please send me feedback g this page.

SYNONYMS OF GAY

The words down here at the bottom of the list will be some way associated wh homosexual, but perhaps tenuoly (if you've currenly got sorted by relevance, that is). To help remember, thk of the etymology: homophon have the same sound (the Greek phonos), homographs have the same spellg (Greek graphe), and homonym om the Greek word meang "name" (onyma). Some people feel that the e of homonym should be rtricted to words that are spelled alike but are different pronunciatn and meang, such as the bow of a ship and the bow that shoots arrows.

All of the words are formed wh the bg form homo-, meang “one and the same; siar; alike, ” and each has an addnal root that sheds light on the word’s meang. Homophone om the Greek -phōnos (meang “soundg”); homograph is om the Greek graphe (“to wre”); homonym is om the Greek onyma (meang “name”).

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RHYME WH GAY

A word that is spelled like another but has a different sound and meang (homograph); a word that sounds like another but has a different spellg and meang (homophone). The synonyms vivac and gay are sometim terchangeable, but vivac suggts an activens of gture and w, often playful or allurg.

Pri, formerly known as Gay Pri, is a regnn of LGBTQ inty, affirmatn of equal rights, and celebratn of visibily, digny, and diversy the LGBTQ muny. While the word homosexual is still ocsnally ed some ntexts, you might have noticed that don’t make an appearance any versn of the LGBTQ acronym.

As our age note on the term stat, “up until 1973, homosexualy was listed The Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM), psychiatry’s standard reference on the classifitn of mental illns. And many feel that this word plac undue emphasis on sexual activy, or that sounds overly clil.” In fact, the term homosexual was liberately rejected by early gay rights activists bee, acrdg to The New York Tim, “they did not want to be intified as exclively sexual begs.”. Gay, on the other hand, n be ed to scribe a person of any genr who experienc same-sex attractn, although is most often ed to scribe a man who is attracted to men.

THE GAY VOICE

On June 28, 1969, the New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn, a bar equented by gay and genr-nonnformg people (at a time when terms like LGBTQ didn’t yet exist).

Partially rponse to Stonewall, 1970, queer activists New York Cy anized a march to Central Park wh the theme “Gay Pri.” A more prehensive history of the Stonewall Rt or the Stonewall Uprisg n be found our Pri Month explaer. Queer lerally means “strange or odd om a nventnal viewpot,” and by at least by the late 1800s, queer was ployed as a rogatory term for an effemate or gay man. GLAAD prefers that we don’t e the term homosexual bee ’s “aggrsively ed by anti-gay extremists to suggt that gay people are somehow diseased or psychologilly/emotnally disorred.

GAY

It’s OK to scribe someone you know who publicly self-intifi as gay, lbian, bisexual, or another sexual orientatn as out. But, people who are gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr also re about a wi variety of other polil, social, and cultural issu. Most of the are homophon any dialect of English, but bee of small pronunciatn differenc, there are some words that are homophon Amerin English but not Brish English, and vice-versa.

Intertg note: Dependg on a speaker’s accent and the way they’re g the word, the two might not always sound like homophon. Intertg note: This is a b funny, bee this set of homophon actually seems to e more trouble for native speakers than do for English learners. ” That means that if you want to bee an expert at somethg (like learng homophon or even English general), you have to practice a lot.

You n fd more rmatn about the books I mentned above, and there are also other s and vios that people have ma to help you learn homophon.

WHAT MEANS TO ‘SOUND GAY’

Or, if you have 46 mut, you’re wele to watch this great but really long vio that b tons of English homophon, cludg their pronunciatn!

Immersg yourself native English ntent is important as will help you learn to listen out for and intify any new homophon. After intifyg phoic characteristics that seem to make a man’s voice sound gay, their bt hunch is that some gay men may subnscly adopt certa female speech patterns. They want to know how men acquire this manner of speakg, and why – pecially when society so often stigmatiz those wh gay-soundg voic.

IS THERE A “GAY VOICE”?

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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.

WHAT DO IT MEAN 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.

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

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. 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. 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.