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David Thorpe confronts his \u2018gay<\/a> voice\u2019 in his new film Do I Sound Gay?<\/b><\/p>\n

David Thorpe wondered if other gay<\/a> men<\/a> were as distressed about the way they talk as he was.<\/p>\n

So in his new documentary, Do I Sound Gay?, he asked some very famous ones including actor George Takei, designer Tim Gunn, author David Sedaris, newsman Don Lemon and columnist Dan Savage to weigh in.<\/p>\n

Comic Margaret Cho also shares some insights in the film which opened Friday (17 July) in Los Angeles., Atlanta, Philadelphia and Denver.<\/p>\n

‘Sometimes a voice is just a voice and sometimes it’s a symbol of something much bigger,’ Thorpe told the audience after a sell-out screening at the Outfest Film Festival in Los Angeles this week.<\/p>\n

Thorpe shares in the film his life-long struggle with ‘gay<\/a> voice’ – something you can’t quite define but you know it when you hear it.<\/p>\n

He examines the questions ‘Do gay<\/a> men<\/a> who talk like gay<\/a> men<\/a> do it naturally or it is learned?’ and ‘Why are so may gay<\/a> men<\/a> so hung up on not sounding gay<\/a>?’<\/p>\n

One of the reasons is survival and how sounding gay<\/a> as a boy<\/a> or a teen<\/a> can lead to bullying, says Savage who founded It Gets Better Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thorpe said that while growing up, ‘if something sounds gay<\/a> it’s like the worse thing ever. It’s associated with a lot of shame and a lot of stigma. … It’s amazing to me how many of my gay<\/a> friends had speech therapy as kids.’<\/p>\n

When he came out in college, he believes he got a lot less self-conscious: ‘I wanted to look gay<\/a> and sound gay<\/a>. I was so excited to be out of the closet.’<\/p>\n

But later he began to wonder: ‘How did I get this gay<\/a> voice stuck on me? Is it my real voice or this voice I reached for after I came out?’<\/p>\n

In the film, he works with two different noted speech therapists in an attempt to see if he could change his voice to make it sound ‘less gay<\/a>.’<\/p>\n

In the end he learns that the real issue is this: ‘Coming to terms with my voice is coming to terms with myself.’<\/p>\n

To find out where the film is screening, go to DoISoundGay.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The post David Thorpe confronts his ‘gay voice’ in his new film Do I Sound Gay?<\/a> appeared first on Gay Star News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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