Gay men, ternalized homophobia, and (re)fg the "gay voice"
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"DO I SOUND GAY?"
They say gay men lose the stereotypil gay voice on anthia. Beverly Gee-Gay is an Associate Profsor and the Director of Distance Edutn wh the VCU Department of Nurse Anthia. Gay joed the faculty 2004 after several years Nursg Edutn both the clil arena as Cril Care Edutor, and the amic arena as didactic and clil faculty.
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FILM CLUB | ‘WHO SOUNDS GAY?’
The seri’ but novel, Black Tie by Ciarán Strange, is a M/M polil thriller he’s pched as “gay Jam Bond navigatg a world of superhero. To gay men wh the “gay voice, ” is a nsc effort or is your naturally speakg voice?
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Microaggrsns and the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Communy" and Dr. “Do I Sound Gay? ”—one of summer 2015’s mt see documentari acrdg to Entertament Weekly—is a new film by David Thorpe, a gay Whe Amerin wrer based Brooklyn, New York.
OP-ED: GAY VOICE IS RUG LIV
Through a seri of terviews and teractns wh Thorpe’s iends and relativ, a few celebri, and random strangers on the streets, we hear a spectm of perspectiv about what “sounds gay” and why soundg as such is perceived as bad. Many of the gay men the film adm to beg que fortable wh the sounds of their voic, not fully unrstandg why Thorpe would feel so strongly about his voice that he would even vis a speech pathologist and a celebry vol traer to get rid of his “gay voice. ” However, most of the gay men the film were able to relate to the secury of havg a more feme voice and some even relled tim that their “gay soundg” voic (and general gay inti) had led to gettg bullied or worse.
Overall, the film do a nice job of explorg a very real but largely unseen, unheard, and perhaps unspoken psychologil stggle that many gay men may have. Internalized Homophobia: An Unseen and Unheard Psychologil Stggle. As psychology profsors and rearchers, the first thg that popped to our mds while watchg the film was the ncept of ternalized opprsn, particularly ternalized homophobia* (please see note below about the term “homophobia”), which may be fed as the negative attus that LGBTQ people have about themselv bee of their sexual orientatns.
We believe ternalized homophobia is why a gay man would dislike soundg feme. Internalized homophobia is why a gay man would dislike “soundg gay. ” We believe ternalized homophobia is why “soundg ls like a man” would make a gay man view himself as ferr and unsirable, even to the ey (or ears) of other gay men.