Can you hear whether someone is gay?

Is there a relationship between your manner of speech and your sexual orientation? And if so, what do listeners do with that information? These are the questions featuring in the newest podcast of Zeg, created by Hanneke Bax and Tim Bosselaar.

My contribution was to flip the question on its head and wonder why we do not ask similar questions about “heterosexual speech,” and to discuss the apparent heteronormativity in what we consider professional and what not.

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