[mathw]

It's awful. I know plenty of straight guys who have a "gay-sounding" voice, and I'm gay but people tell me I sound "straight", which at least in my experience means this is all complete nonsense.

What they really mean is that if someone thinks you're gay or lesbian then you're likely to suffer from homophobic discrimination.

While a reminder of that is probably useful for the world at large, it's not new to anybody who identifies outside the straight cisgender categories. Or actually, anybody who is straight and cis who somebody has decided "looks gay".

[dragonwriter]

> What they really mean is that if someone thinks you're gay or lesbian then you're likely to suffer from homophobic discrimination.

Discrimination is always based on characteristics as percieved by the one doing the discrimination.

[joestr87]

I know right? People look for things that confirm their own biases ("X Y and Z are gay and they sound like this"). Oh, and I wasn't having a go at the study, even if it is a little ropey, just bewildered that people still think in that way. Like people thinking that if you're black you probably talk a certain way, or like certain music.