Is There a “Gay Voice”? | The New Yorker

Contents:

• WE N THANK GAY ACTIVISTS FOR TODAY’S EPIMIC OF TRANS NFN
• GAY GAY HOMOSEXUAL GAY / I CAN STILL HEAR HIS VOICE
• THE GAY VOICE
• NEW HBO DOCERI REVISS 1990S SERIAL KILLGS OF GAY MEN OM PHILLY AND N.Y.
• MY GAY VOICE AND YOURS
• IS THERE A “GAY VOICE”?
• WHAT'S THE LK BETWEEN HOMOSEXUALY AND HAVG A 'GAY VOICE'
• “GAY” VOICE
• MY GAY VOICE
• DO YOU SOUND GAY? WHAT OUR VOIC TELL – AND WHAT THEY DON’T
• WHY IS THAT SOME GAY MEN EMPLOY AN EFFEMATE VOICE?
• OP-ED: GAY VOICE IS RUG LIV
• FILMMAKER AND SPEECH PATHOLOGIST WEIGH IN ON WHAT IT MEANS TO 'SOUND GAY'

WE N THANK GAY ACTIVISTS FOR TODAY’S EPIMIC OF TRANS NFN

And the fluential gay blogger Andrew Sullivan recently voted a lengthy piece to this subject tled “The Queers Vers the Homosexuals. This has long been an sential part of the tnal curriculum phed schools by groups like GLSEN (the Gay, Lbian, Straight Edutn Network). Sullivan, reuntg the history of LGBT activism, wrote, “Then the queers upped the ante and did somethg we gays never did: they targeted children.

It was right the center of , part of the radil war agast heterosexual normativy and the hated genr ’s why one of the olst gay activist anizatns the untry began 1973 as the Natnal Gay Task Force. Focg aga on children’s tn (= doctratn), GLSEN was found by a group of teachers 1990, voted to providg a “safe” environment for LGBT-intifyg 2007, GLSEN troduced the Lunch Box 2, “a prehensive trag program aimed at providg tors and muny members wh the background knowledge, skills and tools necsary to make schools safer and more affirmg plac for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) stunts. )In lson after lson and activy after activy, children learn about well-known historil figur who were gay (or, allegedly gay), also masterg the many nuanc of LGBT vobulary.

GAY GAY HOMOSEXUAL GAY / I CAN STILL HEAR HIS VOICE

’”Please don’t tell me today that this was not part of the gay activist agenda om early on and that was somehow hijacked by queer activists.

THE GAY VOICE

In fact, the pro-gay and pro-trans narrativ were extribly ’s why, my sarstic poem, “Here At School the Slant Is Gay, ” I clud the l: “GLSEN will fill for Granny and help kids fd their ner-trannie.

NEW HBO DOCERI REVISS 1990S SERIAL KILLGS OF GAY MEN OM PHILLY AND N.Y.

) Thankfully, my lleague at Foc on the Fay, Jeff Johnston, has done the heavy liftg when to documentg the gay doctratn of two articl, which are mt reads, are, “Sorry ‘Gays Agast Groomers, ’ But Gay Activists Helped Start This Transgenr Fire” and “Sorry ‘Gays Agast Groomers, ’ But Gay Activists Helped Start This Transgenr Fire, Part Two. Disabily is proment  the queer and trans muny wh 30 percent of gay and bisexual men and 36 percent of lbian and bisexual women also intifyg as havg a disabily.

He repeatedly said, “Informatn is power, ” and found the Cril Path Project, an HIV/AIDS rource anizatn that provid rmatn and a 24-hour hotle for the Philalphia gay muny.

MY GAY VOICE AND YOURS

Johnson, one of the most proment figur the Stonewall uprisg of 1969, was an Amerin gay liberatn activist who scribed herself as a gay person, a transvte, and a drag queen and ed she/her pronouns. Among the ristance work STAR did was to ll for an end to non-nsensual psychiatric rceratns of gay, lbian and trans people.

Johnson also lled for an end to nversn therapy and other forced therapi ed to “cure” lbian, gay and trans people of their sexual and genr inti.

PFLAG is the first and largt anizatn for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ+) people, their parents and fai, and alli. In 1972, after Morty was beaten and attacked durg a prott, Jeanne Manford wrote a letter to the New York Post which she said, “I am the mother of a homosexual son. Kenny Fri is a longtime gay and disabily rights activist, world-renowned poet and memoirist, who was born wh shortened and twisted legs.

IS THERE A “GAY VOICE”?

Fri is the thor of many books and scholarly works and has wrten extensively lerary and other venu on the tersectn of gayns and disabily his own life and the larger muny.

The majory of Fri’ books and poems were wrten due to his experienc as a disabled, gay Jewish man CNN anchor Anrson Cooper broke ground broadstg as an out gay man.

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WHAT'S THE LK BETWEEN HOMOSEXUALY AND HAVG A 'GAY VOICE'

Gay Gay Homosexual Gay or I Can Still Hear His Voice is a tchphrase often paired wh imag of characters om popular media, which one character remisc another character mockg them.

In the panel foreground, the character Yugi Muto remembers the character Pharaoh Atem, sayg, "I n still hear his voice…" In the eded background, Atem says, "Gay gay homosexual gay, " creatg the imprsn that the memory of Atem is mockg Yugi. 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.

“GAY” VOICE

They want to know how men acquire this manner of speakg, and why – pecially when society so often stigmatiz those wh gay-soundg voic. San Diego was home to same-sex upl as far back as the 19th century, but wasn’t until around World War II that gays and lbians started to e out of the shadows and fd plac to ll home. But thgs changed dramatilly the 1970s as Hillcrt attracted LGBTQ people who sought cheap hog and were willg to fix up Victorian hom, a classic se of “gaytrifitn.

MY GAY VOICE

” The Brass Rail, meanwhile, led the vanguard of gay and lbian bars flockg to the “gayborhood” and nearby neighborhoods — North Park, Banker’s Hill, and Universy Heights.

“Gayborhoods allow gays and lbians to fd one another for iendship and fellowship, sex, datg, and love, spe the ascendance of datg apps, ” said Am Ghaziani, thor of the book “There Go the Gayborhood?, ” a 2017 terview. A Voice of San Diego analysis of 2010 cens data found that lol gay male upl were still highly ncentrated Hillcrt and nearby neighborhoods. But our regn was home to many dozens of gay bars over the eight s sce World War II, acrdg to the 2018 KPBS documentary “San Diego’s Gay Bar History.

In 1957, a straight man named Lou Arko bought the bar, then hoed the later-molished Orphm Theater downtown, and weled a gay clientele at night after bspeople went home.

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

In 1972, a classified ad a newspaper announced that an anizatn lled the Gay Center for Social Servic “needs a home.

But 11 men and four men om the lol chapter of the Gay Liberatn Front were on a missn: They wanted to open one of the natn’s first lbian-and-gay muny centers.

WHY IS THAT SOME GAY MEN EMPLOY AN EFFEMATE VOICE?

But the “F Loop” is an important part of lol LGBTQ history bee was an important part of many lol gay men’s liv, pecially the years before onle personal ads and datg apps offered alternativ to bars. Many gay men didn’t know where else to go bee they were aaid to be seen at gay bars, pecially if they were married or the Navy, said Walt Meyer, a historian of San Diego’s LGBTQ past.

HBO's latt doceri exam a rash of murrs the early '90s known as the "last ll killgs, " as each victim was a picked up the middle of the night at a gay bar New York Cy. It vers a perd of three years, durg which four gay men disappeared om Manhattan, only for their dismembered bodi to be disvered off highways Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York.

A father of two, he was tranged om his send wife and seekg work the fancial dtry after leavg a high-profile job at Mellon Bank the doceri, his iend and former lover rells bumpg to him at the Manhattan fundraiser, gettg a drk wh him afterwards at the Townhoe Bar, a posh piano bar that tered to a gay clientele, and then sendg him a b to the Waldorf Astoria hotel after a bartenr cut Anrson off. No one r if you ARE gay but you n’t ACT gay…” Sce then I have ponred what even means to “act gay”-- or to “act straight, ” for that matter.

OP-ED: GAY VOICE IS RUG LIV

But at the time I knew exactly what meant: I had a “gay voice” and was therefore cursed to live a life of mute daydreamg. ) But 99% of the time the magic would fa once I was st, revealg me to be a guy who uld ocsnally hi behd a ep voice, but who generally prented as “gay.

For stance, a classmate om nservatory--who ed to tease me about my effemate mannerisms, BTW--was eventually st as a gay activist a big award-wng movie, based on a big award-wng play, about gay liv. As stg director Brette Goldste told me 2008, the thg about the gay rol on televisn and film is that “You’ll often have straight men playg them. Though some gay actors are effectively creatg their own opportuni to play a variety of rol (gay, straight, mascule, feme, and everythg between), such as the makers of the entertag seri East Sirs.

But even though I chose not to ntue swimmg upstream toward a full time actg reer, I also somehow knew not to dismiss myself for beg “too gay” or too genr nonnformg. I put together a short documentary about how actors--pecially men, whether they are gay or straight--are nsired by stg directors to have failed the send they “sound gay” (meang their voice do not nform to heteronormative stereotyp of masculy).

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

I tell you this bee sharg our journeys wh honty is an effective way to shatter stigmas--like the one known as “gay voice.