Why do some gay guys talk like that

When he's not frantically swiping through Twitter or Instagram, he's indulging on an iced coffee while blasting all genres of music. Luigi Bencosme is an online writer at Rowdy Magazine. Other gay men can detect the vibrations, but straight men are notoriously bad listeners.

After identifying phonetic characteristics that seem to make a man’s voice sound gay, their best hunch is that some gay men may subconsciously adopt certain female speech patterns. After three years of research, linguistics professors Henry Rogers and Ron Smyth may be on the verge of answering that question.

Keep up the great work!!! In fact, Radice told me to look into the Polari dialect This dialect developed from the entertainment industry in the early s when homosexuality was still illegal in the U. Although the secret dialect is now dead as it serves no purpose anymore, it's an interesting nugget of information which serves to prove how people will persevere despite the world being against them.

Another interesting thing I learned in my conversation with Radice was that a lot of gay speak developed as a way for queer people to avert discrimination.

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They might speak in higher pitches and a more melodious groove to their speech. As gay speak enters the mainstream we need to stop commodifying gay men and using this as a tool for discrimination. When talking to Radice about the reasons for gay speak, he said, in a nature v.

In an effort to increase my understanding of this world and how it works, I reached out to Joseph Radice, a linguistics Ph. Following up on that, Radice also told me about that while this information can be particularly interesting to learn about, when in the wrong hands, can be used against the community to discriminate.

Great stuff as usual. [36]. This would explain why some (but not all) gay men have gay speak and why even some straight men speak like this. There is some truth to the lack of testosterone in certain gay men being a contributing factor to the overall context.

Essentially, as previously stated, a large portion of gay terms originate from AAVE. Dolly Parton can also detect the vibration, explaining why she’s such a strong ally for the queer community. For example, a gay man whose first language is Spanish and who grew up in New York is going to speak drastically different than a gay man whose first language is English and who grew up in Texas.

Soon enough, members within the ballroom culture started picking up on these AAVE words and phrases and started adapting them into their own forms of speaking. He explained that the filmmakers discovered that uptalk when you end a sentence on a higher pitcha vocal fry when you kinda end your sentences with a very low pitch croak-like sooooounnnnddand even a lisp are the most stereotypically prominent features of gay speak.

Why do some gay men “sound” gay? Almost like how you start to sound like your friend after spending a lot of time with them, members of the same communities often pick up similar speaking patterns. This would explain why some but not all gay men have gay speak and why even some straight men speak like this.

But is the gay accent even real? Gay male speech in the Philippines, more commonly referred to as Gay Lingo, is a combination of English, Filipino, and other languages like the Bicol dialectal schema, with some linguistic adjustments, such as affixation.

You can reach out to him on Instagram luigibenc or on email at luigibencosme18 gmail. Now, what exactly is gay speak? One of the explanations for why some men speak with gay speak is because, Radice said, some gay boys gravitate toward women and girls more.

LGBT communities don’t put as much stock in performative masculinity and as such, it’s seen as perfectly fine and welcome to act how you see fit. Thank you for helping people get the information they need. Radice also said he believes various words and phrases specific to the gay community can be traced to the gay ballroom culture of ’s New York, especially Black gay men and Black drag queens.

As mentioned before, while this information is useful, it can also be harmful and reinforce unwanted stereotypes. Thus, they slowly pick up traditionally feminine speaking patterns. No one ever feels the need to act tough in front of others.

And if it is, why does it even exist?