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March 4, 2002 at 12:00 am #37446
ShirleyAvery
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Though i’m a straight female, I took a Phonetics course in college & the professor was gay. He verified that, in fact, there is a recognized phenomenon called ‘gay lisp’. Not all gay men lisp, but among those who do, it may have developed as a signal to other gays.