Gay male speech (English Wikipedia)

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Sulpizio, S.; Fasoli, F.; Paladino, M.; Vespignani, F.; Eyssel, F.; Bentler, D. (July 1, 2015). "The sound of voice: Voice-Based categorization of speakers' sexual orientation within and across languages". PLOS ONE. 10 (7) e0128882. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1028882S. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0128882. PMC 4488841. PMID 26132820.

doi.org (Global: 2^nd place; English: 2^nd place)

Gaudio, Rudolf P. (1994). "Sounding Gay: Pitch Properties in the Speech of Gay and Straight Men". American Speech. 69 (1): 30–57. doi:10.2307/455948. JSTOR 455948.
Munson, B.; McDonald, E. C.; DeBoe, N. L.; White, A. R. (2006). "The acoustic and perceptual bases of judgments of women and men's sexual orientation from read speech". Journal of Phonetics. 34 (2): 202–240. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2005.05.003.
Van Borsel, John; De Bruyn, Els; Lefebvre, Evelien; Sokoloff, Anouschka; De Ley, Sophia; Baudonck, Nele (2009). "The prevalence of lisping in gay men". Journal of Communication Disorders. 42 (2): 100–106. doi:10.1016/j.jcomdis.2008.08.004. PMID 18954874.
Linville, Sue Ellen (1998). "Acoustic Correlates of Perceived versus Actual Sexual Orientation in Men's Speech". Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica. 50 (1): 35–48. doi:10.1159/000021447. PMID 9509737. S2CID 23557815.
Munson, Benjamin; McDonald, Elizabeth C.; DeBoe, Nancy L.; White, Aubrey R. (2006). "The acoustic and perceptual bases of judgments of women and men's sexual orientation from read speech". Journal of Phonetics. 34 (2): 202–240. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2005.05.003. S2CID 37781084.
Podesva, Robert J. (2011). "The California Vowel Shift and Gay Identity". American Speech. 86 (1): 32–51. doi:10.1215/00031283-1277501.
Gaudio, Rudolf P (1994). "Sounding Gay: Pitch Properties in the Speech of Gay and Straight Men". American Speech. 69 (1): 30–57. doi:10.2307/455948. JSTOR 455948.
Munson, Benjamin; Babel, Molly (2007). "Loose Lips and Silver Tongues, or, Projecting Sexual Orientation Through Speech". Language and Linguistics Compass. 1 (5): 416–449. doi:10.1111/j.1749-818x.2007.00028.x.
Kulick, Don (2000). "Gay and Lesbian Language". Annual Review of Anthropology. 29: 243–85. doi:10.1146/annurev.anthro.29.1.243. S2CID 146726837.
Sulpizio, S.; Fasoli, F.; Paladino, M.; Vespignani, F.; Eyssel, F.; Bentler, D. (July 1, 2015). "The sound of voice: Voice-Based categorization of speakers' sexual orientation within and across languages". PLOS ONE. 10 (7) e0128882. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1028882S. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0128882. PMC 4488841. PMID 26132820.
Boyd, Zac; Fruehwald, Josef; Hall-Lew, Lauren (2021-07-08). "Crosslinguistic perceptions of /s/ among English, French, and German listeners". Language Variation and Change. 33 (2): 165–191. doi:10.1017/S0954394521000089. ISSN 0954-3945.
Sumner, Meghan; Kim, Seung Kyung; King, Ed; McGowan, Kevin B. (2014-01-09). "The socially weighted encoding of spoken words: a dual-route approach to speech perception". Frontiers in Psychology. 4: 1015. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.01015. ISSN 1664-1078. PMC 3913881. PMID 24550851.
Rosales, Helen Espeño; Careterro, Marigrace Despi (2019-06-14). "Stylistics Variation: Understanding Gay Lingo in Social Perspectives". The Normal Lights. 13 (1). doi:10.56278/tnl.v13i1.1240. ISSN 2350-6733.

ed.ac.uk (Global: 1,867^th place; English: 1,129^th place)

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Boyd, Zac (2018-11-28). Cross-linguistic variation of /s/ as an index of non-normative sexual orientation and masculinity in French and German men (Thesis). University of Edinburgh.

glbtq.com (Global: 6,908^th place; English: 5,800^th place)

"Gayspeak". glbtq: an encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, & queer culture. glbtq, inc. 2004. Archived from the original on May 14, 2011. Retrieved January 19, 2011.

jstor.org (Global: 23^rd place; English: 15^th place)

Gaudio, Rudolf P. (1994). "Sounding Gay: Pitch Properties in the Speech of Gay and Straight Men". American Speech. 69 (1): 30–57. doi:10.2307/455948. JSTOR 455948.
Gaudio, Rudolf P (1994). "Sounding Gay: Pitch Properties in the Speech of Gay and Straight Men". American Speech. 69 (1): 30–57. doi:10.2307/455948. JSTOR 455948.

macalester.edu (Global: low place; English: low place)

McKinstry, Oliver (March 1, 2002). "Queering Multiculturalism". The Mac Weekly. Macalester College. Archived from the original on September 22, 2006. Retrieved January 19, 2011.

ncca.gov.ph (Global: low place; English: 5,618^th place)

"In Focus: The Filipino Gayspeak (Filipino Gay Lingo)". National Commission for Culture and the Arts. Retrieved 2025-09-24.

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pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Van Borsel, John; De Bruyn, Els; Lefebvre, Evelien; Sokoloff, Anouschka; De Ley, Sophia; Baudonck, Nele (2009). "The prevalence of lisping in gay men". Journal of Communication Disorders. 42 (2): 100–106. doi:10.1016/j.jcomdis.2008.08.004. PMID 18954874.
Linville, Sue Ellen (1998). "Acoustic Correlates of Perceived versus Actual Sexual Orientation in Men's Speech". Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica. 50 (1): 35–48. doi:10.1159/000021447. PMID 9509737. S2CID 23557815.
Sulpizio, S.; Fasoli, F.; Paladino, M.; Vespignani, F.; Eyssel, F.; Bentler, D. (July 1, 2015). "The sound of voice: Voice-Based categorization of speakers' sexual orientation within and across languages". PLOS ONE. 10 (7) e0128882. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1028882S. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0128882. PMC 4488841. PMID 26132820.
Sumner, Meghan; Kim, Seung Kyung; King, Ed; McGowan, Kevin B. (2014-01-09). "The socially weighted encoding of spoken words: a dual-route approach to speech perception". Frontiers in Psychology. 4: 1015. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.01015. ISSN 1664-1078. PMC 3913881. PMID 24550851.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Sulpizio, S.; Fasoli, F.; Paladino, M.; Vespignani, F.; Eyssel, F.; Bentler, D. (July 1, 2015). "The sound of voice: Voice-Based categorization of speakers' sexual orientation within and across languages". PLOS ONE. 10 (7) e0128882. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1028882S. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0128882. PMC 4488841. PMID 26132820.
Sumner, Meghan; Kim, Seung Kyung; King, Ed; McGowan, Kevin B. (2014-01-09). "The socially weighted encoding of spoken words: a dual-route approach to speech perception". Frontiers in Psychology. 4: 1015. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.01015. ISSN 1664-1078. PMC 3913881. PMID 24550851.

out.com (Global: 2,097^th place; English: 1,203^rd place)

Musto, Michael (June 12, 2017). "Comic Matteo Lane: 'If You're Gay, Walking Onstage is Inflammatory'". Out. Retrieved February 18, 2026. Were you always openly gay in comedy? / Yes. There's no way to hide it because I sound incredibly gay. I have gay voice. In comedy--at open mic nights--there's no gay people in the grand scheme of things. But for me, there's no way to hide it.

pnuresearchportal.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

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Rosales, Helen Espeño; Careterro, Marigrace Despi (2019-06-14). "Stylistics Variation: Understanding Gay Lingo in Social Perspectives". The Normal Lights. 13 (1). doi:10.56278/tnl.v13i1.1240. ISSN 2350-6733.

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Linville, Sue Ellen (1998). "Acoustic Correlates of Perceived versus Actual Sexual Orientation in Men's Speech". Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica. 50 (1): 35–48. doi:10.1159/000021447. PMID 9509737. S2CID 23557815.
Munson, Benjamin; McDonald, Elizabeth C.; DeBoe, Nancy L.; White, Aubrey R. (2006). "The acoustic and perceptual bases of judgments of women and men's sexual orientation from read speech". Journal of Phonetics. 34 (2): 202–240. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2005.05.003. S2CID 37781084.
Kulick, Don (2000). "Gay and Lesbian Language". Annual Review of Anthropology. 29: 243–85. doi:10.1146/annurev.anthro.29.1.243. S2CID 146726837.

sevendaysvt.com (Global: low place; English: 6,266^th place)

Adams, Jordan (April 27, 2022). "Comedian Matteo Lane Talks Pasta, Dating and 'Gay Voice'". Seven Days. Retrieved February 18, 2026. SD: You have some jokes about "gay voice." At any point in your life, did you feel the need to de-gay your voice? / ML: I mean, you know, it's like, are you — how do you identify? / SD: Gay as the day is long. / ML: Right. So, you know what it was like. It was, like, until yesterday that I would pick up the phone and you would think I was my mother. I don't know. We just have "gay voice."

speech-language-therapy.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

Bowen, Caroline (2002). "Beyond Lisping: Code Switching and Gay Speech Styles". Archived from the original on October 27, 2010. Retrieved January 19, 2011.

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Podesva, Robert J., Sarah J. Roberts, and Kathryn Campbell-Kibler. "Sharing Resources and Indexing Meanings in the Production of Gay Styles." Language and Sexuality: Contesting Meaning in Theory and Practice (2001): 175–89.

ugent.be (Global: 3,681^st place; English: 3,778^th place)

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Van Borsel, John; De Bruyn, Els; Lefebvre, Evelien; Sokoloff, Anouschka; De Ley, Sophia; Baudonck, Nele (2009). "The prevalence of lisping in gay men". Journal of Communication Disorders. 42 (2): 100–106. doi:10.1016/j.jcomdis.2008.08.004. PMID 18954874.

umn.edu (Global: 1,293^rd place; English: 776^th place)

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Munson, B., & Zimmerman, L.J. (2006b). Perceptual Bias and the Myth of the 'Gay Lisp'

uni-muenster.de (Global: 4,194^th place; English: 6,117^th place)

Essing (2019). Breaking Away from the Binary. https://www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/index.php/satura/article/view/3063

utoronto.ca (Global: 1,483^rd place; English: 930^th place)

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Rynor, Micah (February 18, 2002). "Researchers examine patterns in gay speech". News@UofT. University of Toronto. Archived from the original on November 1, 2007. Retrieved January 19, 2011.

washingtonpost.com (Global: 35^th place; English: 24^th place)

Swanson, Ana (2015). "What it means to 'sound gay'". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on January 17, 2016. Retrieved December 22, 2019.

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Swanson, Ana (2015). "What it means to 'sound gay'". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on January 17, 2016. Retrieved December 22, 2019.
Bowen, Caroline (2002). "Beyond Lisping: Code Switching and Gay Speech Styles". Archived from the original on October 27, 2010. Retrieved January 19, 2011.
McKinstry, Oliver (March 1, 2002). "Queering Multiculturalism". The Mac Weekly. Macalester College. Archived from the original on September 22, 2006. Retrieved January 19, 2011.
Rynor, Micah (February 18, 2002). "Researchers examine patterns in gay speech". News@UofT. University of Toronto. Archived from the original on November 1, 2007. Retrieved January 19, 2011.
"Gayspeak". glbtq: an encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, & queer culture. glbtq, inc. 2004. Archived from the original on May 14, 2011. Retrieved January 19, 2011.

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Boyd, Zac; Fruehwald, Josef; Hall-Lew, Lauren (2021-07-08). "Crosslinguistic perceptions of /s/ among English, French, and German listeners". Language Variation and Change. 33 (2): 165–191. doi:10.1017/S0954394521000089. ISSN 0954-3945.
Sumner, Meghan; Kim, Seung Kyung; King, Ed; McGowan, Kevin B. (2014-01-09). "The socially weighted encoding of spoken words: a dual-route approach to speech perception". Frontiers in Psychology. 4: 1015. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.01015. ISSN 1664-1078. PMC 3913881. PMID 24550851.
Rosales, Helen Espeño; Careterro, Marigrace Despi (2019-06-14). "Stylistics Variation: Understanding Gay Lingo in Social Perspectives". The Normal Lights. 13 (1). doi:10.56278/tnl.v13i1.1240. ISSN 2350-6733.

Gay male speech (English Wikipedia)

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