{"id":869,"date":"2014-05-06T20:06:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T01:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=869"},"modified":"2014-05-06T20:06:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T01:06:50","slug":"new-documentary-to-explore-the-gay-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/869","title":{"rendered":"New Documentary to Explore the &#8220;Gay Voice&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new documentary seeks to explore what makes the gay voice and what it means in today&#8217;s society. The film will be called\u00a0<em>Do I Sound Gay?,\u00a0<\/em>and it will tackle an issue that is often noted but rarely discussed. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/117088046\/do-i-sound-gay-a-documentary-about-finding-your-tr\">From the film&#8217;s Kickstarter page:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #121a0d;\">In the tradition of funny-but-serious first-person movies like<\/span><i style=\"color: #121a0d;\">\u00a0Supersize Me<\/i><span style=\"color: #121a0d;\">,\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"color: #121a0d;\">Roger and Me<\/i><span style=\"color: #121a0d;\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"color: #121a0d;\">Good Hair<\/i><span style=\"color: #121a0d;\">, you\u2019ll follow me as I encounter a colorful cast of linguists, historians, voice coaches, speech therapists, friends, family, and total strangers on the street, gay and non-gay, who share their wisdom and touching, funny stories about the \u201cgay voice.\u201d\u00a0You&#8217;ll also hear intimate confessions and\u00a0hilarious\u00a0anecdotes from LGBT icons\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<\/span><b style=\"color: #121a0d;\">Margaret Cho, Tim Gunn, Don Lemon, Dan Savage, David Sedaris\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"color: #121a0d;\">and\u00a0<\/span><b style=\"color: #121a0d;\">George Takei\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"color: #121a0d;\">&#8211;\u00a0as they open up about the &#8220;gay voice<\/span><b style=\"color: #121a0d;\">.&#8221;\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"color: #121a0d;\">Thanks to all the incredible people I met, I was able to embrace\u00a0<\/span><b style=\"color: #121a0d;\">my\u00a0<\/b><b style=\"color: #121a0d;\">authentic voice.\u00a0<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/117088046\/do-i-sound-gay-a-documentary-about-finding-your-tr\/widget\/video.html\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new documentary seeks to explore what makes the gay voice and what it means in today&#8217;s society. The film will be called\u00a0Do I Sound Gay?,\u00a0and it will tackle an issue that is often noted but rarely discussed. From the film&#8217;s Kickstarter page: In the tradition of funny-but-serious first-person movies like\u00a0Supersize Me,\u00a0Roger and Me\u00a0and\u00a0Good Hair, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}