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
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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?
AM I GAY?
* gay voice test *
“You don’t seem gay.
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 .
Have you ever wonred if you have a “gay voice”? * gay voice test *
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?