Do I Sound Gay?

I was listening to a podcast at the Your Other Brothers website yesterday about gay perceptions. Many times, you straight folks can pick up the fact that we are gay simply by the way we talk, walk, act or dress. It's your version of gaydar. It is wrong alot, but it seems to be your way of determining that we are not like you.

Even so, this is a real thing. Gay men in particular will many times speak differently than an average straight male. There is a film that was introduced in the podcast called, "Do I Sound Gay?". The trailer for it is above. The whole thing can be found on Netflix or Amazon. It is a documentary that traces the steps of a gay man named David Thorpe in his efforts to discover why some gay men sound different or even effeminate. He seeks out speech therapists and actually tries to change the way he sounds. If you choose to watch the whole film, please know that there are several F-bombs scattered throughout as well as some gratuitous and unnecessary scenes from gay porn used to point out that the guys in these films do not sound gay at all. There might be 40 seconds of this. Offending body parts have been blurred.  Dan Savage also appears in this documentary. I find him to be the most annoying gay man on the face of the earth, mostly because of the way he chooses to hatefully express his gay activism. In the film, however, he makes some very good points.

I think the whole subject is interesting. I do not think I have any 'tells' about what I am, but I seldom hear myself recorded or see myself in video, so maybe I act like a big queen and I just don't realize it. When I watch the 8 mm films of my early life, I can see it. At age 7, 8 and 9, I'm acting kind of gay. There is no sound on these films so my voice then may or may not have been girly. I also know that I worked very hard to 'man up' as I passed into puberty and so I'm pretty sure I seem straight to most folks that meet me.

Anyway, the film is good. If you can deal with the NSFW content, it's worth the watch. The podcast at YOB is also worth the time.