The Gay Voice

longhalloween

This is just something I've been wondering about the last few day.

All the gay male fashion advisors, models, TV characters, even a few people I've seen around town all seem to have the same tone of voice. Not just in the type of language they use, but the actual intonation and rhythm of speech.

Is this put on or are some gay people born with it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJXFVmT8y3s&feature=related

starbelgrade

This thread is gay.

Princess Peach

starbelgrade wrote: »

This thread is gay.

So's your face.

starbelgrade

Princess Peach wrote: »

So's your face.

Racist.

longhalloween

starbelgrade wrote: »

This thread is gay.

Happy you picked up on the point I'm tryin to make :D

mikom

longhalloween wrote: »

Is this put on or are some gay people born with it?

No..... they go to gay school for it.

Didn't you see "gay school musical"?

KeithM89_old

Its just a generalization... i know the biggest tallest guy youve ever seen, looks like hed snap your neck with one hand but has the highest pitched 'gayest' voice iv ever heard. And hes definitely not gay...

starbelgrade

longhalloween wrote: »

Happy you picked up on the point I'm tryin to make :D

Are you trying to tell us that you're gay?

longhalloween

starbelgrade wrote: »

Are you trying to tell us that you're gay?

It's been eating me up for ages!!







Just like the guy in my bed

Senna

Their voice must change when they catch the ghey

greyed

You're just hearing those ones man, and generalising. You've probably ran into loads of gay people but didnt realise it because they didnt "sound gay". I know camp as **** straight guys, so it goes both ways...

msg11

greyed wrote: »

I know camp as **** straight guys, so it goes both ways...

I personally think they have not come out of yet.

BTW I hate the gay voice, it's stupid. Speak normal, it's on par with the scummer voice. I don't give a rats if your gay. If your not a girl don't speak like one.

BCC4LYFE

yeah i dont know what is up with people who talk like that its like they have a sign on their head saying 'omg im different please pick on me'

hotmail.com

msg11 wrote: »

I personally think they have not come out of yet.

BTW I hate the gay voice, it's stupid. Speak normal, it's on par with the scummer voice. I don't give a rats if your gay. If your not a girl don't speak like one.

Does it really bother you that much? Maybe you need to chill out.

greyed

msg11 wrote: »

I personally think they have not come out of yet.

Ah, well, if ye think so then that must be it, nevermind not knowing them at all :rolleyes:

BCC4LYFE wrote: »

yeah i dont know what is up with people who talk like that its like they have a sign on their head saying 'omg im different please pick on me'

Ah yea, like to pick on people for being different? You're deadly, little man.

msg11

hotmail.com wrote: »

Does it really bother you that much? Maybe you need to chill out.

Yes, they cry out about been treated like normal straight people. I don't care if a person is gay or what your preference is in life. Speak normal and stop putting on a voice or having a little hissy fit. Just because your gay dose not mean your some how less man than any other man.

Joe_row_sef

friend linked me to this last night in a facebook chat about a gay guy we knew with a lisp. He went on and on about the Fesssstival

http://members.tripod.com/caroline_bowen/codemix.htm

msg11

greyed wrote: »

Ah, well, if ye think so then that must be it, nevermind not knowing them at all :rolleyes:

I am actually good friends with a gay bloke with the voice. I do know him, and I have heard him speak in a normal voice and told him to speak normal and stop putting on the voice. As I said it's on par with the voice of a hard man scumbag as well as the posh voice. All just put on, because they think people will give them more time because they come from whatever background, well it dose not. Not to me, in my eyes everyone is a person no different, if you tell me something I don't like then that is the breaker not the voice. So there is no need for it drop the act and speak with your normal voice. You should not need to mask your voice to fit in with people.

wonton

there isn't really such thing as speaking normal. everyone has an accent that comes from there geographical and sociological circumstances.

and of course people speak a certain way to feel more accepted to a certain group, especially minorities.

one of my cousins moved up from wexford and with in a bout a month was speaking with a horrible dublin scumbag like accent just because they were the people he started hanging around with.

ascanbe

Perhaps they do, which, in my experience, they don't; or perhaps they don't, which, in my experience, they do.
They don't do; in my experience.
Who gives a fcuk?

ascanbe

KeithM89 wrote: »

Its just a generalization... i know the biggest tallest guy youve ever seen, looks like hed snap your neck with one hand but has the highest pitched 'gayest' voice iv ever heard. And hes definitely not gay...

Maybe he just doesn't like you in that way...don't lose hope...

KeithM89_old

ascanbe wrote: »

Maybe he just doesn't like you in that way...don't lose hope...

Maybe some day. i wait in hope...
Oh those biceps...

mikom

mikom wrote: »

Didn't you see "gay school musical"?

You mean Glee?

livinsane

I'd say it's a cultural thing. So you recognise your own...

Gummy Panda

I hate the teenage lads who put on the camp act and voice to use the gay best friend tactic to pull one of the girls. I've never seen that tactic work and you just look like a tit.

Naos

To be fair, the gay lads you hear with that voice only stand out to you because of that voice. I've no idea why they do it, but I know what you mean, I'd imagine they're in the minority.

jimthemental

wonton wrote: »

one of my cousins moved up from wexford and with in a bout a month was speaking with a horrible dublin scumbag like accent just because they were the people he started hanging around with.

Wexford ey? I'm sure his accent didn't change that much.;)

Pompey Magnus

longhalloween wrote: »

Is this put on or are some gay people born with it?

I'm pretty sure its learned, but some people apparently learn it sooner in life than others apparently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBVAJselZ98

phill106

I actually wondered this myself. Does being a gay male give them this voice? Or does having that voice somehow make you gay?
While i know a few gay men, they all speak in a similar manner.
I don't know of any gay women, so I don't know if they speak differently.
We must answer these questions!

Son Of A Vidic

KeithM89 wrote: »

Its just a generalization... i know the biggest tallest guy youve ever seen, looks like hed snap your neck with one hand but has the highest pitched 'gayest' voice iv ever heard. And hes definitely not gay...

Of course he's not Gay, he's a BIG gay!

phill106

OSI wrote: »

Have a penis shoved up your bum and I'm sure your voice would go all high pitched as well..

So there is some kind of gay voice button hidden deep inside mens bottoms?

Chuchoter

I've kind of wondered this too, but I think for some people it is definitely learned and other people have just always talked like that. I do know a fair few guys who talked normally, got in with a load of other gay guys and then started talking like them. However, I think that only about like 30/40% have the voice at all.

Stercus Accidit

I know lads who had it as kids (the voice) and grew up to be gay.

I would guess it is a hormonal thing, just as they say a certain part of the brain decides on sexual orientation and is more female hormonally in gay men.

There are crusty voiced gay men, but I would hazard a guess that it is based on the hormonal development of the brain. I doubt its a put on thing, otherwise the kids I knew in school had decided to be gay before they even hit puberty and despite the slagging the school knackers would give them.

Davidius

I always thought it was just down to hormones.

prinz

Davidius wrote: »

I always thought it was just down to hormones.

There are people who deliberately camp it up at times.