Have you ever wonred if you have a “gay voice”?
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DO YOU SOUND GAY? WHAT OUR VOIC TELL – AND WHAT THEY DON’T
A film about the stereotype of the "gay voice," wh Dan Savage, David Sedaris, Gee Takei, Margaret Cho & Tim Gunn. In theaters & ble-on-mand July 10! * gay voice test *
"Charmg, wry, a pellg portra of ternalized homophobia and liberatn" — NPR. Catch the acclaimed documentary DO I SOUND GAY? S., DO I SOUND GAY?
About the film: Is there such a thg as a "gay voice"? Why do some people "sound gay" but not others? Why is the "gay voice" a trigger for bullyg, even vlence?
DO I SOUND GAY? “You don’t seem gay.
AM I GAY?
We might thk we know what a gay person sounds like. But there are veats to the cliche — and ‘voice-shamg’ tells a lot more about our culture than do about the person speakg * gay voice test *
I n’t easily pute what means to be gay if ’s not havg jt intified yourself wh that label. You haven’t – at least that moment, at that party – exhibed the mannerisms lked many people’s mds wh male homosexualy. The notn you would be pleased to fd this out reveals an unthkg prejudice: how rehg is to meet a gay who don’t make a meal of .
Maybe I’m more “gay”. Y, seemg gay – broadly speakg, beg mp – is a way of holdg onelf, a way of drsg, but ’s large part a way of speakg. His qut to unrstand why he talks the way he do is the subject of a new documentary, Do I Sound Gay?
Apart om anythg else, ’s not the prerve of gay men or even human begs. They’re then asked to rate each one by perceived “gayns”.
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And y, the stretchg out of “sibilant” nsonants such as s and z (image Kenh Williams sayg “She sells sea shells on the sea shore” and you’re sort of there) what about gay women? There are a few theori knockg around as to why this might be: Arnold Zwicky, his mply tled 1994 paper Two Lavenr Issu for Lguists, suggts that: “For many lbians, what is most important is intifitn wh the muny of women – while for many gay men, what is most important is distancg themselv om straight men.
First: there is a style of speakg that people associate wh gay men. Send: not all gay men e , and some straight men do. Third: this style of speakg isn’t simply an importatn of “feme” quali to male speech, although that appears to be what a lot of people, we’re still left wh the qutn of why a gay male voice might emerge.