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Contents:
OF LISPS AND LGUISTICS: THE POWER OF THE GAY VOICE
Ask a Homo: Livg for the Lisp.
THE PREVALENCE OF LISPG GAY MEN
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, and please put “ASK A HOMO” the subject le.
THE GAY LISP?
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.