Filmmaker And Speech Pathologist Weigh In On What It Means To 'Sound Gay' : NPR

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Here, we take a look at 35 famo gay sgers who have graced wh their mic: 1. While he kept much of his personal life private, Mercury has been an in for the gay muny for s, though he sadly died om HIV/AIDS 1991.

Halford me out as gay an MTV terview 1998, llg a “wonrful day for me.

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Bass me out 2006 as gay a People magaze ver story and ntu to play mic and act on televisn and movi. The “Kg of Lat Pop, ” Ricky Mart me out as gay 2010.

In a 2012 open letter, Ocean opened up about his homosexualy. She has been open about her homosexualy sce 2002.

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'THE VOICE' HAS OPENLY GAY SGERS: WHERE ARE THEY ON 'AMERIN IDOL'?

In Do I Sound Gay?, director David Thorpe search for the orig of the so-lled "gay voice" and documents his own attempts (wh speech pathologist San Sank) to sound "ls gay." * gay singing voice *

Wawright has been open about his homosexualy sce his teenage years. Tennant publicly me out as gay a 1994 terview wh Brish gay liftyle magaze Attu. Why do some gay men “sound” gay?

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. Rogers and Smyth are also explorg the stereotyp that gay men sound effemate and are regnized by the way they speak.

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They asked people to listen to rerdgs of 25 men, 17 of them gay.

Perhaps fewer than half of gay men sound gay, says Rogers.

The straightt-soundg voice the study was fact a gay man, and the sixth gayt-soundg voice was a straight man. THE VOICE -- "Bld Audns" Episo 2303 -- Pictured: (l-r) Blake Shelton, Kelly Clarkson, Chance The Rapper, Niall Horan -- (Photo by: Evans Vtal Ward/NBC) NBC’s The Voice has only aired two episos, but already viewers have heard somethg that viewers have probably never heard on Fox’s Amerin Idol: “I’m gay.