Beyond lispg - Co Swchg and Gay Speech Styl

Contents:

• OF LISPS AND LGUISTICS: THE POWER OF THE GAY VOICE
• THE PREVALENCE OF LISPG GAY MEN
• IS THERE A “GAY VOICE”?
• EMEM AND THE “GAY LISP”
• THE GAY LISP?
• GAY LISP
• GAY PCH, LISP?
• GAY SPEECH AND LISPG

OF LISPS AND LGUISTICS: THE POWER OF THE GAY VOICE

Lispg and male homosexualy.

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. A total of 175 of the sampl were of homosexual men, 74 (42. Based on the ratgs of the listeners of the prent study, lispg speakers were signifintly more often judged to be homosexual.

This was te for the group as a whole as well as for the subgroup of homosexual and heterosexual men separately. Furthermore, there was no signifint genr difference wh rpect to associatg lispg wh gayns.

THE PREVALENCE OF LISPG GAY MEN

Male and female judg associated lispg wh gayns to a siar gree. The rults of this study nfirmed prev prelimary fdgs that suggted that ontal or ntal articulatn/lispg is a feature that listeners associate wh gayns. The prevalence of lispg gay men.

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IS THERE A “GAY VOICE”?

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When Universy of Toronto rearchers Ron Smyth and Henry Rogers nducted a study on the so-lled “gay voice” the early 2000s, they me to an unsurprisg ncln. But we are not, as many gay men tend to be, an dible mory.

When openly gay humour wrer David Sedaris lls down to the ont sk at a hotel, for example, he is often addrsed as “ma’am, ” by the ncierge; a mischaracterizatn that lights him, but also fills him wh ep shame. Sedaris expounds on this feelg Do I Sound Gay?, an Amerin documentary starrg Brooklyn filmmaker David Thorpe that premiered this week at Doc NYC, and was featured at the Toronto Internatnal Film Ftival September.

EMEM AND THE “GAY LISP”

Thorpe, who directed the film and promoted at TIFF wh sex lumnist Dan Savage (who also mak an appearance the film), wanted to explore this shame and answer a qutn that has been on his md his entire adult life: Why do so many gay men who are seemgly fortable wh their sexualy hate the way their voic sound? Thorpe never liked the sound of his own slightly effemate voice, but was the sound of other gay men’s voic that propelled him to make the film. “I was on a tra ri to Fire Island [off Long Island] and I heard all the gay voic around me, and I was repelled, ” he says.

“I uldn’t believe that after 20 years of beg out and fightg to create a gay muny, I was repulsed by my own people, and by myself. My voice was the way that my ternalized homophobia ma self known to me. In Do I Sound Gay?, Thorpe not only exam the myster, unrolved orig of the gay voice (characterized by a lisp and the elongatn of certa syllabl), but tri and fails, to rid himself of his own gayish flectn.

He practis a variety of voice epeng, speech therapy exercis—employed equently we learn, by closeted gay actors who want to butch up their voic for a straight dience.

THE GAY LISP?

Savage, whose sex advice lumn is syndited ternatnally, says he se this distaste for the stereotypil gay voice progrsive straight muni, too.

GAY LISP

Savage often gets mail om straight people who are happy to accept their newly out, gay male iends, but who are equally annoyed by how “mpy” they sound. “I’ll get letters om straight men and women sayg, ‘I love my gay iend but why do he have to act this way? Why is he puttg on this big gay act?

But ’s also easy to see why a closeted gay kid might want to -swch for other, more unrstated reasons, too. In popular culture, om Jam Bond to Aladd, male villas sound unnervgly gay.

The gay voice do not merely belong to Mch and Cam on Morn Fay. But is rare, even today, that a good, virtuo character has an explicly gay-soundg voice a kid’s movie.

GAY PCH, LISP?

In the end, the greatt irony about the arguably misogynistic aversn to the gay voice—as a sign of meekns and spelsns—is how strong one has to be to actually e . “To leave the hoe as the credibly swishy, fierce gay hairdrser tak a lot more urage than to leave the hoe as Jason Colls, ” says Savage, referrg to the NBA player who ma history earlier this year when he me out of the closet. Accs through your stutn rights and ntentAbstractThis study evaluated the stereotype that gay men lisp.

Two clicians who were unaware of the specific purpose of the study and the populatns volved judged randomized d-rerdgs of 175 gay mal, 100 heterosexual mal and 100 heterosexual femal for the prence of lispg durg readg of a standardized text.

GAY SPEECH AND LISPG

In the gay mal a signifintly higher prevalence of lispg was found than the heterosexual mal and femal. Breakdown of the rults of the gay participants two different age groups showed a higher prevalence of lispg the younger age group than the olr age group. No relatn was found between lispg and age of g-out or lispg and the probabily of beg gay as asssed by a qutnnaire about sexual orientatn.

The orig of the high prevalence of lispg gay men needs further vtigatn. Learng out: The rears of this article will able (1) to discs articulatory behavur as a possible marker that may distguish gay om heterosexual men (2) to discs the prevalence of lispg gay by (0)1aspirant van het Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onrzoek full textCopyright © 2008 Elsevier Inc.

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