This short documentary explor the reasons that some men sound stereotypilly gay, whether they are or not.
Contents:
- ‘WHO SOUNDS GAY?’
- WHAT DO IT MEAN TO SOUND GAY?
- DO YOU SOUND GAY? WHAT OUR VOIC TELL – AND WHAT THEY DON’T
‘WHO SOUNDS GAY?’
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Tle: Who Sounds “Gay“? Summary: This short documentary explor one theory of why some people sound stereotypilly “gay. I’ve always wonred why some men sound gay and others don’t.
WHAT DO IT MEAN TO SOUND GAY?
To me Kris sounds gay and Matt sounds straight. The cleart most lady-like gay one. And ’s not so much that a kid who is gog to be gay later life is gog to say I want to sound like a woman, so much as a kid is intifyg here is a particular speaker, and here is a particular of that person’s speech that ptur what I fd so engagg about them and I’m gog to emulate that.
People want gay men to be like women and maybe they picked up on the fact that many of the characteristics of gay- soundg voic are feme characteristics but they’ve got all wrong. Bee a lot of those gay-soundg voic are om straight guys. I knew I was gay when I was like 11.
DO YOU SOUND GAY? WHAT OUR VOIC TELL – AND WHAT THEY DON’T
Do I have a gay voice? The big problem i have is when people assume I’m not [gay] and then I’m anx are they gog to say somethg stupid?
In the end, if someone thks I’m gay, then they’re wrong... Me was a voice everyone was faiar wh, and they knew what signified: That I was gay.
Virtually every parody—malic or otherwise—of gay men clus a nasal, lispg, high-pched vol timbre.