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? “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.
AM I GAY?
* gay voice test *
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?
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”. 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.