2007-02-06 13:01:48 · 15 answers · asked by Steelhead 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
I agree it is all an act. I think that men use it cause they obviously think that if you talk like that it makes you a women. Trust me there is more behind being a women then talking like that. I don't think that I have seen many women do it though.
2007-02-06 13:07:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I agree with the people who said it's all an act. I think that homosexuality is natural and people are born that way, but the whole flamboyancy thing....mostly an act. There's no way such a huge demographic of people can put on that behavior and claim that it's genuine.
Not sure why it's referred to as "effeminate" either; women don't act that way. And if you're a gay man, why would you want to be with someone who wants to be anything other than a man?
2007-02-06 22:33:20 · answer #2 · answered by transitangst 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It came from Spain.
Next time you hear a mexican speaking spanish ask him to say zapato (that's shoe in spanish)
Then whenever you see a Spainard ask him to do the same. He'll say the same word except with a hard "TH" sound instead of a "Z" sound for the word zapato.
This lyps orginated a long time ago by a king in Spain. He wasn't gay or anything he just spoke that way, and all the common folk copied his manner of speaking.
I'm not sure if that lysp is the same that the gays use over here, but it's the way that spainiard got thier lysp.
2007-02-06 21:06:59 · answer #3 · answered by danielsonrg 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I actually have no idea, to tell you the truth. After I came out, as I became more comfortable with myself (I am flaming), my voice gradually became a gay voice and with a lisp, I guess. One day about 6 months after I came out, one of my lesbian gal friends and I were discussing gay issues and I mentioned that I didn't have the "gay voice" and she looked at me and told me to record my voice. I did and was utterly shocked. You get accustomed to it though and I actually like it now. However, I've always had at least a slight lisp so maybe it's only if your voice is a certain way beforehand and can't handle going as high as your voice goes, thus it lisps when it can't pronounce a syllable such as one with an 's' or a 't'.
2007-02-06 21:05:49 · answer #4 · answered by guitarherofairy 3 · 1⤊ 6⤋
Not all gays have lisps, I'm gay I don't. My fiancee is gay and she doesn't. It's just the person themselves have a lisp, they just happen to be gay.
2007-02-06 21:05:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Sylvester the Cat. Both he and Tweety Bird were big ole queens.
2007-02-06 21:13:35 · answer #6 · answered by castle h 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yeah, I'll just add to the Spain comment:
That's called the 'castellano' (pronounced cast-ay-yano) accent, named for the region in Spain near Madrid where it is normally found.
It's weird listening to 'thapathos' instead of 'zapatos'.
2007-02-06 21:47:15 · answer #7 · answered by Steve B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it comes from stereotypical characters in movies and on TV. why do people believe in such generalizations when the majority are nothing like that?
2007-02-06 21:16:58 · answer #8 · answered by redcatt63 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think people try to fit in with their peers. It's the same reason bikers get tattoos, they want to fit into the image.
2007-02-06 21:18:34 · answer #9 · answered by radical4capitalism 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Its something in that Gay gene, I think its their way of talking to each other so that they can tell who is gay and who is not.
2007-02-06 21:06:04 · answer #10 · answered by Hi 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋