`` Do I Sound Gay, And Thought That It?

The article dives into the 'gay gene’; a gene where individuals had hoped that would be the answer to peoples orientation. While scientists have found some new information regarding chromosomes and genetics, there still is no simple answer that reassures anyone that there is a single 'gay gene ' that defines their orientation.

The topic of sexual orientation is both sensitive and controversial. This is evident in events, such as the Pride Parade, and also in media, where authoritative figures preach against it and speak of its “sinful nature” (Emmanuele, Blanchard, Camperio-Ciani, & Bancroft, 2010). Sexual orientation exists in various forms, it differs in the way it is viewed by different cultures, and researchers propose different perspectives to explain the emergence of an individual 's sexual orientation. In the discourse of sexual orientation,

Few people today know the true meaning of the word gay. Even fewer use it in its original context. To be gay was once a common and positive expression. When describing one’s mood, it meant that they were feeling lively and carefree. Gay could even be used to describe something that was “brightly colored” or “showy” (Merriam Webster, “Gay”). No one thought twice about it when people said they were “feeling gay” or “the sunset was gay.” However, this word is rarely used in that context in today’s society. Instead, it has taken on a completely different meaning and connotation. While gay had become something of a euphemism for prostitutes and their clients throughout the 19th century, it was ever changing. This change was gradual and began in the 1920s and 1930s. By this time, a “gay man” was no longer just a man that was promiscuous with women, but also one who was

It seems unusual to start from scratch with such a thing. With there being several types of accents, why must one feel like they should change theirs? As Text B illustrates, it seems as though it is celebrities in particular that are changing their accents to fit in with ‘showbiz’ and the latest trends or for a movie they will play a part in. Within seconds of meeting someone, we make judgements about who they are just by the way they sound. Attitudes towards accents are based more on social connotations and prejudices surrounding the location or social group associated with that accent than on the sound itself.

On July 28, 2015, Thom Dunn wrote about an issue that is often ignored by society today on upworthy.com. In his article, “What is 'Vocal Fry,' And Why Doesn't Anyone Care When Men Talk Like That?” Dunn analyzes the unnecessary criticism women receive due to their use of the lower register. His point is mainly addressed towards societies trying to define gender roles through this trend. Moreover, he recognizes how males aren’t panned for using the vocal fry while females continue to be punished for it. He suggests that we should worry less about the tone of a person and actually listen to the words they’re saying. While he uses strong logic and effective style in his writing, Dunn lacks credibility and fails to make an emotional appeal to his audience, causing his persuasive argument to be ineffective.

As an example, Hackbarth explains that even gay men have a difficult time distinguishing between homosexuals and heterosexuals. However, the modern metrosexual is more likely to take any comments from a gay man as a compliment rather than take

Meister, J., Hagen, R., Shehata-Dieler, W., Kuhn, H., Kraus, F., & Kleinsasser, N. (2017). Pitch elevation in male-to-female transgender persons—the Wurzburg approach. Journal of Voice, 31(2), 244.e1-244.e5. doi:10.1016/j.jvoice.2016.07.018

Homosexuality Annotated Bibliography Adriaens, Pieter R., and Andreas De Block. “The Evolution of a Social Construction: the Case of Male Homosexuality.” Scholarly Journals, vol. 49, ser. 4, University Press, 2006, pp. 570–585.

Contemporary political activists, in an effort to delegitimize homophobic narratives that stigmatize the “gay” identity, have argued that same-sex attractions are an innate and biologically fixed component of one’s character. By emphasizing the immutability of sexual orientation, civil rights lawyers have established “gay” identifying individuals as a separate class of people worthy of protection from discrimination. This pervasive and politically expedient ideology, which has now become the prevailing cultural attitude within liberal circles, is reflected in commercially successful pop songs such as ‘Born This Way’. Yet the ubiquity of this essentialist understanding remains problematic. For one, the fixedness of sexuality is biologically

Media coverage surrounding alternative sexualities has also expanded in recent years and, in the wake of gay liberation and the emergence of lesbian and gay studies, an ever increasing flow of academic documentation pertaining to sexual orientation has flourished. We now know more about homosexual lives in general and about the experiences of particular groups such as those in prison those who offer sex in exchange for money and those who lived during particular historical periods. However, with the knowledge and awareness about what it means to be gay or lesbian has increased considerably, there remains an ignorance on a number of homosexual issues. Explanations of why sexual orientations differ are still inadequate, and in a

Not advocating one over the other as an open-minded individual, I remained indifferent towards the sentiment of sexual orientation as time has proceeded to evolve the social stigmatization enveloping one's sexual preference. As a young child, often overseen by a late family friend who I did not recognize was gay until after his departure, I did not conceptualize a severance between one's favored gender as a sexual partner and their own sexual identity. Never being one to distinguish one by labels or preconceived perceptions, I distanced myself from societal norms that most of the population seems to abide. By validating my impersonal attitudes concerning one's sexual orientation, I sustained my conscious

Normally, it has been discovered that heteros who accept sexual minority status is naturally decided and unchanging hold more great mentalities toward sexual minorities, than the individuals who see it as uninhibitedly picked or learnt (e.g., Aguero, Block, and Byrne, 1984; Haslam and Levy, 2006; Haslam, Rothschild and Ernst, 2002; Hegarty and Pratto, 2001; Jayaratne et al., 2006; Whitley, 1990). Given the inescapable ness of homophobic disgrace and segregation, and the ensuing battles numerous LGB individuals confront in tolerating their sexuality, sexual introduction convictions may hold profound individual criticalness for some LGB people. Many additionally hold hostile to essentialist convictions, keeping up that sexual introduction is

Regardless of gender, humans tend to start their lives with similar capacities and productions. All genders are born with a larynx, our primary organ for vibration, which biologically functions to keep air flowing through the respiratory system and keep foreign objects out. Additionally, children’s vocal folds have an average fundamental frequency, or vocal fold vibration, of 250 Hz per second. However, the larynx also has the nonbiological function of acting as a vibratory source for speech. This is a complex system and so produces a lot of variety in speech, particularly between men and women. Therefore, vocal production becomes indicative of how a person is perceived, partially based on societal assumptions. For cisgender individuals this results in an accurate representation, but transgender individuals are often “betrayed” by their

I have chosen the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender culture (LGBT), more specifically, the Gay culture as my study in intercultural communication. My person of contact is a 21-year-old homosexual male by the name of Scott Gardner. Scott identifies himself as gay but more specifically a panromantic homosexual; meaning, he is sexually attracted to men, but romantically attracted to all genders.

This is a documentary about a man named David Thorpe who confesses that he has never been comfortable with the inflections of his voice and how he goes to different people to find the meaning and origin of what we classify as the “gay voice”. During his journey, Thorpe discovers that many people, both gay and straight, wish that they had a different voice. This movie brings up the issue of how many LGBTQ people are judged based on their appearance and even how they talk. The main idea of this documentary is about having self-acceptance regardless of how one