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Do I Sound Gay?
2015 · Film · documentary · 77 min
Directed by David Thorpe
What makes a voice “gay”? A breakup with his boyfriend sets journalist David Thorpe on a quest to unravel a linguistic mystery.
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The movie "Do I Sound Gay" has an interesting take on this kind of thing. There's a stereotype of the "gay voice" (a bit higher-pitch, with sibilance on the "s"es, commonly incorrectly called a lisp). The 'intensity' of the voice-modifications depends largely on one's social environment. I don't remember the movie using the term "code-switching", but it certainly did seem like the same thing. I notice this myself - if I'm with other gay men I do usually adopt a bit of a changed speech-pattern totally unconsciously.
Speech is so nuanced; it really seems true that 80% of what you say has little to do with the words themselves.
There is a good documentary on this. It focuses mostly on voice but the source is similar: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_I_Sound_Gay%3F