Synonyms for GAY: animated, active, energetic, animate, lively, brisk, enthiastic, bouncg; Antonyms of GAY: ad, limp, active, animate, lifels, languid, lazy, listls
Contents:
- WHAT MEANS TO ‘SOUND GAY’
- GAY
- IS THERE A “GAY VOICE”?
- THE GAY VOICE
- SYNONYMS OF GAY
- WHAT'S THE LK BETWEEN HOMOSEXUALY AND HAVG A 'GAY VOICE'
WHAT MEANS TO ‘SOUND GAY’
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IS THERE A “GAY VOICE”?
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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.
THE GAY VOICE
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SYNONYMS OF GAY
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WHAT'S THE LK BETWEEN HOMOSEXUALY AND HAVG A 'GAY VOICE'
“As a hly mted gay man, I learned how mpg up uld be liberatg, ” Thorpe says the there may be more subtle ways that sexualy and our sense of self fluence our voic. Benjam Munson, who studi language and speech at the Universy of Mnota, found one study that gay men did e a slightly different pronunciatn than straight men. However, the difference wasn’t the stereotypil “gay voice, ” but a tenncy to e a more ntemporary, pan-Amerin accent, rather than the old-fashned Mnota accent (like the movie “Fargo") says that the gay men he terviewed may have wanted to nvey an inty that is more stylish and cuttg edge.