Several well known, and one misunrstood, featur of the stereotypil gay voice | Johnson
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GAY LISP
Gaydar is a reified skill that nfirms the existe * gay lisp wikipedia *
A gay lisp is actually not a lisp but refers to stereotypil speech attribut assigned to and sometim seen gay mal. Several speech featur are stereotyped as markers of gay male inty: reful pronunciatn, wi pch range, high and rapidly changg pch, breathy tone, lengthened itive sounds, and pronunciatn of t as ts and d as dz. Some rearchers report that North Amerin gay men tend to pronounce sibilants (s, z, sh, and the like) wh assibilatn -- more sibilatn, hissg, or strincy.
A study by Rudolf Gd vtigated claims that people n intify gay mal by their speech and that the listeners e pch range and fluctuatn cidg. Gd found that listeners uld intify gay male speakers, but that there were no nvcg differenc pch.
GAYDAR—SENDG MIXED SIGNALS
The prent study examed the popular stereotype that gay men lisp by evaluatg to what extent listeners associated ntal or ontal articulatn/lispg wh gayns. Fifteen heterosexual mal and 15 heterosexual femal listened to 275 sampl of read speech and judged the sexual orientatn o … * gay lisp wikipedia *
Some analysts say gay people speak wh an affected accent, as a way of signallg their inty and affiliatn wh the gay subculture, or a way to exprs femy. Gay stereotypg.
Encyclopedia article on "gay speak". Enomist article on soundg gay. Beyond Lispg: Co Swchg and Gay Speech Styl.
Ask a Homo: Livg for the Lisp.
THE PREVALENCE OF LISPG GAY MEN
* gay lisp wikipedia *
Wele back to “Ask a Homo,” Outward’s no-judgement answer service for all your qutns on LGBTQ polics, culture, etiquette, language, and other queer nundms. This week, Bryan Lowr n-sth-irs the li-sth-p and other elements of the “stereotypil gay manner of speakg”—and honey, ’s jt fabulo!
Send your queri—for publitn—to slateoutward@, and please put “ASK A HOMO” the subject le. Gaydar is a reified skill that nfirms the existence of a gay speech muny, but n terme a speaker's membership?
Many people thk that they n regnize a gay man based on his speech. In other words, they believe that they have a gaydar. However, as a gay man, I thk of gaydar not so much as a tool for intifyg one’s orientatn, but as a meang and discrimatory weapon ed to ntrast sexual and social differenc.
GAY PCH, LISP?
For my class project Language US Society, I wanted to qutn the nature of gaydar and trace s origs beyond jt the perceptn of the speaker.
GAY LISP
Essentially, gaydar is the abily to tect an dividual’s sexual orientatn. The key to unrstandg gaydar is the telemunitn ncept of “radar, ” which is fed as “a radtermatn system based on the parison of reference signals wh rad signals reflected or retransmted, om the posn to be termed” (ITU Rad Regulatns, 2013).
Gaydar borrows the functns of receivg and parg signals and reifi the skill of intifyg sexual orientatn to an operatnal tool.