It seems to be unlike any accent/speech pattern around and is unique to Gay Men - Is there some camp finishing school known only to gay men where they go to be schooled in camp etiquette and speech patterns?
Sorry to offend, and I'm am not homophobic, I'm just intrigued.
2006-10-17 21:56:56 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Kuji, I have no point, I just find peech, accents, and social stuff like that interesting. I saw a guy on tv talking with a trademark 'gay' accent and wondered if anyone knew how it originated as it is not restricted to region, more to sexual orientation.
2006-10-17 22:04:48 · update #1
Im gay and I dont talk like that, infact i talk & act as butch as any straight man but I understand your point. for some guys I think its somthing thats just picked up from others but im sure some guys are naturally camp and thats reflected in the voice. its not confined to gay men though. I know several straight guys who talk in just the way you describe. in essence though I think a previous answer could be correct, hang around chavs etc long enough & you will soon start talking like one just so you feel part of the gang..innit.
2006-10-17 22:34:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure. As a male nurse I have worked around many gay men. There was one thing that helped me understand why some men are gay that I learned in nursing school. We were told that it has to do with x and y chromosomes. Look this up in a book about reproduction. I don't remember all we were told exactly. I do remember it helped change my opinion towards gays. I now believe some men are truly born gay, and others choose to be gay for very personal reasons.
2006-10-17 22:13:31 · answer #2 · answered by white wolf 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I presume maybe you are talking about the female person in a gay man some take hormone shots which would make their voice more feminine and some probably try to speak more like a female see they are a man but some feel and think as a woman
2006-10-17 22:07:46 · answer #3 · answered by katlady927 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe its taught in California...
They seem to be a really strange breed over there, and it spreads across the Nation...
I believe that only the "fluff" or the men who are the "female" type in the relationship do the strange talking...but, I am not totally sure, as I dont have any "gay" people I know.
I wish you well..
Jesse
2006-10-17 22:06:20 · answer #4 · answered by x 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It,s like a badge of recognition amongst the gay culture, if they all spoke the same as everybody elsa no one would know they were gay. This speech lets the gay people know that they are among their own kind of people, and also lets the non gay people know it also. So like leather jeans, and big moustaches it,s part of the gay culture. No offence ment to gay people by the way.
2006-10-17 22:04:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Softly spoken? look at Matt Lucas from Little Britain and additionally you have a guy who likes bum-exciting with out being stereotypical - till of reason he performs a stereotype like Daffid. yet Matt is in no way softly spoken and not the least girly. ok, that could desire to be the exception that confirms the rule of thumb, so we could see... Stephen Fry or Sir Ian McKellen? you may verify with actors who're incredibly hetero yet are enjoying gay and applying the defined behaviours because of the fact they think of that the stereotype may well be ultimate and least perplexing understood?
2016-10-19 22:23:28 · answer #6 · answered by schrum 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've wondered that myself. There's a guy at work who talks in that way, so it's not a stereotypical television thing.
It may just be their feminine side. I don't personally know the guy so it'd be far too rude to ask. I have some gay mates, but they don't talk like that.
2006-10-17 22:48:40 · answer #7 · answered by genghis41f 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, i think you'll find its nothing to do with a finishing school. like most people when they start to hang around people who speak in a certain manner they tend to pick it up. just look at chavs/gangs/cockneys etc, they all have their own lingo and mannerism. If you really are intrigued why not go to your local rainbow bar!
2006-10-17 22:04:58 · answer #8 · answered by Cruz 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All kids do that voice some goofing around. Then they get told that it's gay. The straight boys stop doing it. The gay boys just go "yeah and your point is..."
2006-10-17 22:01:19 · answer #9 · answered by Kuji 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why do Some straight women talk in a weird squeaky voice? Is there some kind of straight woman finishing where only they go????
2006-10-17 22:00:28 · answer #10 · answered by shug A 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋