but why do gay men (especially on tv) have affected accents ... ?
How is it a stereotype if the OP is asking because they have witnessed it?
Its a very generalized, somewhat ignorant, stereotype ...like having an Irish character on TV who's drunk.
As Soon As You Hear A Scottish Accent On A Tv Character You Just Know He's Going To Be A Bad 'un
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Except an Edinburghian one! V refined!
I was working in Pilton/Drylaw.You obviously didn't spend a lot of time in some of the pubs in Leith or Wester Hales then!
Yes it's learned behaviour, but if there was no good reason for it, it would not persist. I can't remember where I read it, but there was an article somewhere on the roots\origins of "camp" behaviour in homosexual men. The logic was:
1. At a time when homosexuals were victimised in very severe ways, they had to find safe ways of expressing their sexuality, and safe ways of meeting and socialising.
Hi
I'm not a gay man , but lots of my friends are gay, and that is a bit of an offensive question..Tarring everyone with the same voice box etc...
Nicola
Dont gay men/women have a built in "gay-dar" that is supposedly fool-proof ? By that I mean that a gay man can spot another gay man within minutes of meeting him. So I am told anyway.
Most of friends (male) are gay.Out of interest how many, are lots of gay friends?
I definitely have Gaydar, right most of the time..
(also have a boyfriend, so i don't know where that leaves me! )
Nicola
Has this anything to do with being naked in a field full of thistles on a rainy day?