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05-12-2014, 03:51 AM
What's Wrong With Sounding Like a Gay Man?
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You wouldn't k**w David Thorpe was gay. Depending on your perspective, you might guess metro***ual. He wears trendy jeans and a looped scarf; he keeps his beard tidy. On the New York City subway, he looks like any other typical 45-year-old man.
Until he opens his mouth
Thorpe has a gay-sounding voice. In his case, that means a relatively high vocal register for a man and a hint of a gravelly creak (http://news.sciencemag.org/social-sciences/2011/12/vocal-fry-creeping-u.s.-speech) you might expect from a Kardashian. He draws out some vowels with a melodic swing
See also: 9 Gay Leaders Making a Difference in Tech**logy (http://mashable.com/2013/02/21/gay-leaders-tech/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
But it's only in the past three years, while working on his documentary Do I Sound Gay?, that he's fully embraced his "gay voice." The goal of the film is to de-stigmatize the term, and eliminate the stereotypes and homophobia surrounding the distinct vocal style Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/11/gay-voice-documentary/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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You wouldn't k**w David Thorpe was gay. Depending on your perspective, you might guess metro***ual. He wears trendy jeans and a looped scarf; he keeps his beard tidy. On the New York City subway, he looks like any other typical 45-year-old man.
Until he opens his mouth
Thorpe has a gay-sounding voice. In his case, that means a relatively high vocal register for a man and a hint of a gravelly creak (http://news.sciencemag.org/social-sciences/2011/12/vocal-fry-creeping-u.s.-speech) you might expect from a Kardashian. He draws out some vowels with a melodic swing
See also: 9 Gay Leaders Making a Difference in Tech**logy (http://mashable.com/2013/02/21/gay-leaders-tech/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
But it's only in the past three years, while working on his documentary Do I Sound Gay?, that he's fully embraced his "gay voice." The goal of the film is to de-stigmatize the term, and eliminate the stereotypes and homophobia surrounding the distinct vocal style Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/11/gay-voice-documentary/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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