Parlez-vous Lez Gay?

As if we did not already know, a new study reveals that gay men and lesbians use "gay speak." Although the paper is written in a highly technical style, the abstract sums it up like this:

"Vowel production in gay, lesbian, bisexual (GLB), and heterosexual speakers was examined. Differences in the acoustic characteristics of vowels were found as a function of sexual orientation. Lesbian and bisexual women produced less fronted /u/ and /opena/ than heterosexual women. Gay men produced a more expanded vowel space than heterosexual men. However, the vowels of GLB speakers were not generally shifted toward vowel patterns typical of the opposite sex."

Translation: Gay and Lesbian people can be identified by specific mannerisms and speaking patterns!

I don't know about you, but where we come from, its called GAYDAR.

Wonder how much money the researchers were paid to conduct this study?

On the up side, the study does conclude that "innate biological factors influence" our speech, giving credence to the "born gay" (yes, we were) side of the nature versus nurture argument.

If researching the obvious is what must be done to counter the wing-nuts rant that we are an abomination, then by all means, keep on studying!

Short blog today, we gotta go outside and do something butch!