Do you have a gay lisp?

I know a guy who acts as straight as an arrow in the general public. Get him into a gay bar and he puts on this act as if he studies Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, "acts" like a total queen. I dont dig the fakeness, why cant people just be real?
But some gay guys naturally act "femme" and have that lisp, its normally pretty easy to tell whos trying and whos being real.

 

damn straight i have a gay lisp

 

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A lisp is a lisp is a lisp. Whether you're gay, straight or otherwise, it's the same speech impediment. The gay lisp is nonexistent, as is the straight lisp. The lisp doesn't know from gay or straight. At one time a lisp was thought of as effeminate, and therefore assigned as a homosexual trait. Sad how we hang onto these old stereotypes.

There is a gay vernacular though, a way of talking and a whole language, derived from codes used to keep your sexuality a secret from straight folks. We should all be familiar with keeping secrets. Putting on a guise. Pretending to be something we are not. At some point, how do you know what you really are? You may take offense at an affected lilt or queer turn of a phrase. It may even look down right phony. But who's to say?

The man who stands up straight, knits his brow and keeps his voice low in public and at work may actually be more himself at the gay bar with a limp wrist and arched eyebrow. How can any of us speak for someone else? However, I understand your discomfort. There by the grace of Grace Kelly goes I. But don't protest too loudly. And please don't cling onto your disgust -it looks awful on anyone. A feather boa is much more flattering, especially if the color high-lights your eyes.


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No gay lissssp here sometimes I fake one to piss my brother off though

 

I dont have a lisp but there is a tone in my voice that most people can pick out that i'm gay/bi but no one can pick out what it is with my voice. It is really odd.. lol

 

I don't have one (I'm bi). I asked someone I talked to and they said no, although my laugh is kind of wierd.... and girly.

 

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Keep it to your thread, OilPaint.

 

I sometimes have a bit of a "gay lisp", but not always.

It's funny that way, one time my little brother was telling me that I was "gay" and that I'm just like those "gay guys" Steven and Chris from "So Chic". The funny part was that, unintentionally, I responded with "I am so not like those..." bla bla bla, and "I don't even like their style or the clothes that they...". I went on to critique their show and the outfits they make, and criticize it and compare it to how I like to dress. And then I realized how I was talking, and I just stopped and I was thinking "oh my gosh...". My little brother was staring at me in shock, and he was like "I told you..." It was so funny.

But overall, I don't usually talk with a "gay lisp". I usually pickup different accents: Austrian, Irish, sometimes I talk like a "valley girl", or sometimes with a "gay lisp". It's all good~!!

 

how do u mean by a gay lisp?

 

I blame the american media for a great deal of stereotyping, after all parents no longer raise their children they just plop them down in front of the TV as some sort of pseudo-role model, and nearly every television show is blatently using stereotypes, if you turn on MTV its all about 'black gang members' and really that makes up such a small portion of the african-american community, but because thats all these kids are seeing thats what they expect whenever they see a black person, same goes with gay people, whenever you see a show with gay people in it, they are the extrodinarily 'femme' gay people, wearing make up and talking with an exagurated lisp. Really whats are future generations supposed to think if thats their only experiance with other cultures/sub-cultures, really the best solution to this would be to balance out the stereotypes with more accurate images of different culturs.

 

Sporadically (sp?) especially when I'm tired, I switch th's and s'es ... usually th -> s, i.e. Asheville, Norse Carolina ... I almost eliminated this phenomenon practicing the tongue twister, "The seething sea ceaceth, it sufficeth sufficiently that the seething sea ceaceth." Though I think that even our straight friends would find they were a little bi if they try repeating that a few times.

 

What do you mean by lisp? I use to talk high if that is it. I no longer do.

 

i'm a girl, so this doesn't really apply to me. however, i have noticed a certain percentage of (usually quite butch) dykes i've met say their 's' a little differently as well. it's kind of a variance of a lisp i guess, but sounds different from the gay male lisp you speak of. i'm trying to think of an example...ellen KINDA does it, so does melissa ferrick. does anyone know what i mean?? i'm having trouble describing it. that being said, many of the gay men i know have a lisp, though i'm sure some of them just put it on to get the message across.

 

yeah im sure its natural in some peoples cases but i think in the majority its just because of its the way they think their supposed to act, im pretty sure in canada theres alot less gay men who have lisps. I personally cant stand it, I dont mind being friends with people with lisps but i dont know if id ever date someone who has one.

 

haha stereotypes... Most gay people are not out and cannot be identified. We have stereotypical behaviors at times for other reasons...

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Do I appear gay ????....back when I was butch , people could look and tell because I fit their mold...but no one knows now unless I tell them

 

yeah!!!!!!!

 

this thread is so old it makes me want to vomit a little bit on myself.

 

no ,,, well thort of I mean it dependth what you call a lithp