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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.
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THE GAY LISP?
Send your queri—for publitn—to, and please put “ASK A HOMO” the subject le. 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.