What's
Wrong With Sounding Like a Gay Man?
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 you might expect from a Kardashian. He draws out some vowels
With a melodic swing
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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
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