Are there other languages that have an accent associated with gay culture?

Like what accent? Most of the gay men I know sound like midwestern newscasters…

I’ve never noticed Gay’s having a accent of their own.

He means the stereotypical lisp and drawl.

@irondavy, i know what you mean (like asmonet said the lisp for example), and yes there are.

@all I do mean the lisp and drawl.

@alive Which languages are you thinking of?

Spanish speakers. Dutch. Danish. Norwegian… Those are places where I have been and talked to some gay men. But I suspect that it is somewhat present in any language. (Disclaimer: not all gay men talk in a certain way)

@alive Does norwegians sound gay ? Never noticed….

I don’t know about accent, but in Japanese culture the gay stereotype is a giant, musclebound man.

Zangief from Street Fighter II is a stereotypically gay in Japan.

no no not that Norwegians sounds gay! haha sorry, just that there are effeminate (usually gay) men who talk in such a way that you might think to yourself “oh that man is gay”... does that make more sense?

I understand what you mean, but it is more swedish really..

no. i am not saying that all people of a language “sound gay.” just that some people have a different pattern of speech.

so if we take the word “hello” in english, a gay man is more likely (than a straight man) to say “HHHEEEEEYYYYYYYYYY-AAAYYYYY” or the “gay lisp” as asmonet pointed out.

it is an accent within a language, not the language itself. (so when you say it is Swedish, you mean that all of the Swedish language sounds “gay-er” than Norwegian, but the “gay accent” is an “accent” within whatever language they speak.

Yes, but in norway, swdish intonation is more in amongst gay peope imho…

haha ok. but in Denmark, Norwegian intonation might be more “in” with the gay crowd. (the danes always told me that norwegian sounded like singing) either way it just proves that there are other languages that have an accent that is associated with gay culture.

yup, i guees it often comes down to that they want to differentiante themselves a little bit… just a therory..

well, that is a whole other question. but i disagree, no one wants to be “different,” at least not in a way that people will beat you up and sometimes kill you for being different.

Well, people often take pride in beeing different, I know I do..

yes, but in the case of gays, and many oppressed groups that are discriminated against (like racial groups) their different-ness has been a source of self hatred. it takes a lot of self-love and self esteem to embrace that differentness in a world that says you are “less than” because of your differentness.

(gays are 2 to 6 times more likely to commit suicide in the US – source )

Well, here there is more of a personal stigma than a cultural, I cant really speak for the US in that case.
I belive that for gays, norway is a pretty accepting place…

yes, Scandinavia has a pretty good rep. with women’s rights as well as gay rights (of course that doesn’t mean no one who is gay ever feels ostracized in a predominantly straight world).

Plus places like oslo and the other cosmopolitan city areas obviously tend to be more open and accepting of differences than small isolated towns.

anyway, thumbs up to norge! it is a very interesting country.

Yes, it is pretty much accepted everywhere but the most redneck towns here, but yeah it is not bad here…
I belive refugees here are met with a lot more fear than Homosexuals….

YES! oh my gosh! ok, i thought i was being crazy! gay is ok! but brown is down! muslim is ummm i can’t think of something to rhyme with muslim…

the weirdest thing happened when i was in DK. i was staying with a host family and they were fine with the fact that i had a girlfriend, but they did not want her to come because she is eastern european… wtf! i thought i was in an alternate universe!

(not that norway and denmark are the same, but the influx of refugees and muslims etc seems to have taken a similar path. why is difference so scary!?)

It is not that bad, but latelelt rhere has been an big increase in immigrants, so people dont get time to readjust…
For danish and eastern europe, well I guess it has to to with the old sovijet block thingy…

@Qingu, that is fascinating. Is there any way you can explain it so it makes sense outside Japanese culture? I realize that this question implies that I have internalized one stereotype as “normal” and another as “unusual,” according to my own culture, but I don’t know how else to ask.